Dr George Nash

BA, MPhil, PhD(Wales)

George Nash is a Visiting Fellow and part-time lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and Associate Archaeologist with SLR Consulting (Shrewsbury).
George has been a professional and academic archaeologist for the past 18 years and has undertaken extensive fieldwork on prehistoric rock-art and mobility art in Denmark, Indonesia, Norway Spain and Sweden. He has written and edited many books on prehistoric art including Status, Exchange and Mobility: Mesolithic Portable Art of Southern Scandinavia (1998), Signifying Place and Space: World Perspectives of Rock-art and Landscape (2000), European Landscapes of Rock-art (2001), The Figured Landscapes of Rock-art: Looking at Pictures and Place, edited with Christopher Chippindale (2004), The Archaeology of Fire [with Dragos Gheorghiu] (2007) and Art as Metaphor: The rock-art of Britain (2007), edited with Aron Mazel and Clive Waddington.
At present, George is researching contemporary images in the north of England, in particular carved and painted graffiti and the way it is used. He is a member of the British Rock-art Group committee (BRAG) and writes and presents for the BBC and independent television and radio.