David Nash


DAVID NASH (b.1945)
Making the ELEMENTAL BOAT, River Girvan, Ayrshire 1986, oak. 

David Nash chose to come to Scotland to make his work for the exhibition and settled on a river location on the Blairquhan Estate in Ayrshire.

In this way the sculpture was directly related to the landscape and practical problems of transportation minimised.

A fallen oak tree was selected and hewn into the shape of a vessel, burnt beside the bank of the River Girvan and launched into the water through fire. The object or "relic" of this activity reveals the origins of its making in the fusion of the natural elements of fire, earth, air and water, which support life.

Photograph:  1986   ©David Nash