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Andy Goldsworthy OBE (born 25 July 1956) is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. Early life
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Andy Goldsworthy, (born July 26, 1956, Cheshire, England), British sculptor, land artist, and photographer known for ephemeral works created outdoors from natural materials found on-site.
As an adolescent growing up in Yorkshire, England, Goldsworthy worked as a farm labourer when not in school. That work fostered an interest in nature, the cycles of the seasons, and the outdoors. He studied art at Bradford School of Art (1974–75) in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and at Preston Polytechnic (now University of Central Lancashire) in Lanca...
Goldsworthy viewed his artistic process as a “collaboration with nature,” in which he was uncovering the essence of his materials and determining what they were capable of. His process required patience and flexibility; when sculpting with ice, for example, he would have to wait for the temperature to drop low enough. His Rain Shadows (1984– ) involved lying down on the ground just before a rainfall and remaining in that spot until the rain stopped, thereby creating a “shadow” in the shape of his body, which he then photographed. In the 1980s Goldsworthy worked often with snow and ice and created works such as Ice Arch (1982, in Brough, Cumbria; 1985, in Hampstead Heath, London), Ice Ball (1985, Hampstead Heath, London), Ice Star (1987, Penpont, Dumfriesshire, Scotland), and Touching North (1989, North Pole).
In the late 1990s he made a series called Sheep Paintings, for which he placed a large canvas on the ground in a sheep pasture with a sheep lick placed in the middle of the canvas. The finished works had a white circle in the center (where the lick had been) surrounded by the smears and splatters of sheep dung and urine and mud. He also began Sheepfolds in 1996, which entailed restoring sheepfold structures (four-walled sheep enclosures usually made of stone) and adding a sculpture to many of the sites throughout Cumbria county in northwestern England.
In addition to his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy created permanent indoor and outdoor works. With the help of a team of masons from England, he built an extensive dry stone wall (1997–98) for the Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York. The work winds through a row of trees, dips toward a nearby pond, pauses, and emerges on the other side. For Garden of Stones (2003)—a Holocaust memorial for the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City—Goldsworthy planted dwarf oak tree saplings in 18 boulders. He also created a major installation called Roof (2004–05) for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which consists of nine hollow domes (27 feet [8.3 metres] in diameter), each with a hole at the top made of stacked slabs of slate rock. The installation is in a ground-level gallery that can be viewed from above, offering a new perspective on an ancient architectural form.
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From 2008 Goldsworthy created a number of pieces for the Presidio, a park in San Francisco, including Spire (2008), Wood Line (2010–11), Tree Fall (2013), and Earth Wall (2014). Spire, a towering sculpture made from locally felled tree trunks and surrounded by saplings, was damaged in a fire in 2020, but it remained standing. Goldsworthy also constructed Walking Wall (2019) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. The dry stone structure meanders from the nearby sculpture park and enters the museum via a glass wall.
Goldsworthy’s work was celebrated in a number of solo exhibitions, including an early traveling retrospective titled “Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy: Sculpture: 1976–1990” (1990–91) that started at the Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England, and a major retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2007–08) in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. He was the sub...
Andy Goldsworthy is an international artist based in Scotland. Three sand works. Long Island, September 2024.
Andy Goldsworthy was born in the town of Sale in Cheshire in the north of England. While still a young child, he moved with his family to a suburb on the outskirts of Leeds. His parents, F. Allin and Muriel Goldsworthy, were strict Methodists, instilling a hard work ethic into the artist from an early age.
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- Sale Moor, Cheshire, England
Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist known for his site-specific installations involving natural materials and the passage of time. Working as both sculptor and photographer, Goldsworthy crafts his installations out of rocks, ice, leaves, or branches, cognizant that the landscape will change, then carefully documents the ephemeral collaborations with nature through photography.
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Andy Goldsworthy (born 25 July 1956) is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License .
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