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  • David Nash, Cork Spire, 2012, cork bark, 17' 3 1⁄8“ × 13' 11 3⁄8” × 13' 11 3⁄8".

    David Nash, Cork Spire, 2012, cork bark, 17' 3 1⁄8“ × 13' 11 3⁄8” × 13' 11 3⁄8".

    David Nash

    National Museum

    “Are you Welsh now?” I teased the British sculptor David Nash at the opening of his retrospective, where artworks made over fifty years (or two hundred seasons, as the catalogue poetically put it) congregated for the biggest exhibition dedicated to the artist in his adopted homeland. “My job is to make everyone else feel more Welsh,” was his enigmatic reply. Nash was born in 1945 in Esher, UK, but he has lived and worked in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, in North Wales, for more than five decades. A place of special significance to the artist is Capel Rhiw, a Methodist chapel that was built in

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