Cathy's Art Diary

Striking exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art of new work by the abstract sculptor Nigel Hall. The show included four large works and a selection of smaller ones and drawings all based on the interaction of interlinking circles and ovals. The large works looked magisterial in the white space and looked different from every angle. I particularly liked the blue and black title piece shown here named after a Bob Dylan song. The smaller works felt more domestic but kept the same strength and line. Seeing them with the drawings made you think about the shapes and how they reacted together. Closes 30 April 2021  

Interesting exhibition in the lobby of One Canada Square, Canary Wharf featuring sculptures by Nigel Hall. Hall has made many works which use the idea of elliptical form and orbital paths combining them into very simple looking forms which are however based on detailed mathematics. I liked the smaller versions best. Shown on masse they seemed repetitive but when you looked in detail each was slightly different with subtle changes in combination of circles and ovals. My favourite piece was called “Desert Rose” and was about 18 inches high with ovals set into a frame forming layers but set in opposite directions to each other. I have no idea how this was achieved to keep the same diameter all the way up. It was topped with two figures of eight shapes. Closes 18 November 2016