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In a career spanning more than thirty years David Nash has established an international reputation as a sculptor. Since his first solo exhibition in 1973 in York, he has featured in over eighty exhibitions, many of them outside the UK. His work is held in public and private collections around the world. One of the first artists to create environmental or ecological art, Nash has always worked predominantly with wood, starting out using standard milled planks before moving to making sculpture from whole tree trunks and limbs. Nash's environmental concerns led him to use wood from trees about to fall, and he also worked in unseasoned wood, incorporating an element of entropy into his sculpture as the material dried out, warped and cracked. recently Nash has worked with what he terms 'coming' art in which he coaxes groups of living trees to form 'spaces'. One example of this is the work Ash Dome, initiated in 1978 and consisting of twenty-two trees trained to grow together until they meet at the top in a dome. This book will accompany an exhibition of Nash's work at Tate St Ives. It will include essays from writer and critic, Richard Cork and Susan Daniel McElroy, Director of Tate St Ives, covering the processes, experience and philosophy behind Nash's work and their presentation in the Modernist context of St Ives