An Artists Fight to Keep His Artwork Alive | David Nash and ‘The Ash Dome’

A dive into captivating world of Sculptor David Nash, OBE RA and the mortality of his artwork, in particular 'The Ash Dome', a piece that has captivated audiences around the globe.

David Nash is a world renowned artist and Sculptor based in Ffestioniog, Wales. He is known for his wood sculptures, which he creates by growing and manipulating copses into domes and grids of saplings; carving and charring fallen trees. Nash has had numerous solo exhibitions in the UK and internationally, and has received several awards for his work, including the Charles Wollaston Award at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture from the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association. In 2012, he was artist in residence at Kew Gardens in London, and in 1999 he was elected a Royal Academician.

We would like to thank David Nash for his openness in taking part in our student project.

Director - Bella Considine
Producer - Harrison Foot
DOP - Finlay Walker
Assistant Director - Charles Harter
Editor - Danny Hammond
Sound - Finn Butler-Walton
Gaffer - Felix Hodgson

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Similar disease is happening to the Scotch Pine. Thousands of them were planted in the city I live in, and so many have died, and in astonishingly short time frames; in the spring or early summer you can see the very beginnings of the tip die back, and by the end of summer, autumn at the latest, the pine is completely dead. Totally. There's several vectors at work. No cure is currently available. The manmade changes in our climate is definitely a big player. Fungus' that weren't common in one zone are now at home there changing the native biosphere as it proceeds. The sadness and grief David Nash talks about is the sadness Glenn Albrecht calls "solastagia", the grief felt in a changing planetary environment, that is largely, now, out of our hands. I'm sad that his ash dome will not persist much longer.