Nigel Hall RA
Biography
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photo courtesy Anthony Lycett
Since Nigel's first solo show at Galerie Givaudan Paris in 1967, he has had over 100 solo and over 300 group exhibitions around the world. Solo shows include the Kunsthalle Mannheim 2004, a major retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2008 and The Royal Academy, London 2011. In 2020 he exhibited in South Korea at Mo J Gallery and in 2021 he had a solo show at Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery in London.
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Nigel is well represented in numerous public collections including Tate Gallery, London, MoMA, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the British Museum in London, the Los Angeles County Museum, Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Born and educated in Bristol he grew up in the Gloucestershire countryside, studied at West of England College of Art 1960-64 and went on to the Royal College of Art 1964-67. A Harkness Fellowship in 1967 took him to United States for two years, choosing California as his base to experience both the city of Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert.
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From 1971 to 1981 Nigel was a lecturer and external examiner of the Royal College of Art, London, and ran the MA sculpture course at Chelsea College of Art and Design. In 1995 he won the Pollock-Krasner Award and in 2001 he had a residency at Chretzeturm, Stein Am Rhein, Switzerland. In 2002 Nigel was awarded the Jack Goldhill Sculpture Prize and a year later he was elected a Royal Academician. In 2017 he was given an Honorary Doctorate from University of the Arts, London.
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Nigel lives and works in London. His studio, a 60 feet by 60 feet converted church hall in Balham has been his artistic base since 1991.
Many of his sculptures are viewable outside to the public around London, Cambridge and Yorkshire.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago
British Museum, London
Churchill College, Cambridge
Dallas Museum of Fine Art
Fred Jones Junior Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Goteborg Art Museum, Sweden
Hall Art Foundation, Vermont, USA
Iwaki City Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Kunsthalle, Mannheim
Kunsthaus, Zurich
Los Angeles County Museum
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Musée d'Art Moderne, Brussels
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
Museum Biedermann Donaueschingen, Germany
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Museum of Art, Osaka
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Said Business School, University of Oxford
Sapporo Sculpture Park
Schoenthal Monastery, Switzerland
Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
University of Iowa, USA
Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
AXA AG, Cologne
​Bank of America, London & Pairis
Bank for International Settlements, Basel
Banque Lambert, Brussels
British Airways
​Clifford Chance, London
Deutsche Bank, Athens & London
Deutsche Leasing, Bad Homburg, Germany
Energiedienst AG, Laufenberg, Switzerland
Falcon Private Bank, Abu Dhabi, Geneva, Hong Kong & Zurich
Fidelity, London
Glaxo Research & Development, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Goldman Sachs, London
Kirkpatrick Oil, Hennessey, Oklahoma
Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz​
Landeszentralbank in Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz
​Mercedes-Benz, Sindelfingen & Stuttgart, Germany
NTT, Tokyo
NTT, DoCoMo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Qantas Airlines
Sparkasse, Lörrach, Germany
​Unilever Collection, London & Rotterdam
SITE SPECIFIC PROJECTS
2021 Free standing sculpture in corten steel for Business School University of Iowa, USA 400 x 408 x 79cm
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2021 Free standing sculpture in bronze for private collection, Switzerland, 250 x 149 x 45cm
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2017 Wall mounted bronze for private collection, Mannheim, Germany, 200 x 300 x 30.5cm
2015 Free standing sculpture in painted steel for Kensington Leisure Centre, London16ft 5in high x 11ft 8in x 5ft 11in (500 x 354 x 71cm)
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2011 Free standing sculpture in painted steel for Kirkpatrick Oil, Hennessey, Oklahoma, US 8ft 10in high x 2ft 5in x 2ft 2.75in (269 x 73.4 x 68cm)
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2008 Free standing sculpture in corten steel for Energiedienst AG, Laufenburg, Switzerland 9ft 7in high x 9ft 10in x 5ft 3in (293 x 300 x 160 cm)
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2006 Wall mounted sculpture in polished wood for Bank for International
Settlements, Basel 4ft 3.5in high x 9ft 2in x 1ft 3in (129.5 x 280 x 37.5cms)
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2005 Wall mounted sculpture in polished wood for Said Business School, University of Oxford
10ft 6in high x 7ft x 1ft 7in (320 x 212 x 49cms)
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2003 Free standing sculpture in corten steel for Bank of America, London 7ft 6in high x 7ft 6in x 4ft 1in (230 x 230 x 125cms)
2001 Free standing sculpture in corten steel set in landscape at Schoenthal Monastery, Langenbruck, Switzerland
11ft 10in high x 27ft 2in x 6ft 4in (360cms x 828 cms x 192 cms)
1998 Free standing sculpture in painted steel outside entrance to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, DoCoMo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan 11ft high x 15ft 6in x 8ft 4in (332.5cms x 474 cms x 254.5cms)
1996 Wall sculpture in polished wood for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Tokyo 6ft 6in x 10ft x 2ft (200cms x 300cms x 60cms)
1994 Wall sculpture in wood for Glaxo Wellcom Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire In two parts: 7ft x 11ft 6in x 1ft 4in (210cms x 350 x 40cms) and 8ft 2in x 8ft 2in x 2ft (250cms x 250cms x 60cms)
1993 Free standing steel sculpture for entrance to Thameslink Road Tunnel, London Docklands 30ft high x 27 ft 6in x 10ft (914cms x 838cms x 305cms)
1988 Free standing sculpture in cast bronze for Olympic Park in Seoul 15ft 6in x 15ft x 12ft (472cms x 457cms x 365cms)
1982 Wall mounted sculpture for entrance to Australian National Gallery, Canberra 12ft high x 24ft long (365 x 730cm) Painted aluminium