Andy Goldsworthy

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One of the Three Cones, a permanent sculpture by Andy Goldsworthy at the Neuberger Museum of Art of the State University of New York at Purchase in New York.

A view of the trees and landscape surrounding The Cone.

Andy Goldsworthy, born in 1956 in Cheshire and brought up in Yorkshire, is a British sculptor, environmentalist and photographer living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment.

His materials often include twigs, thorns, stone, mud, snow, icicles, brightly-coloured flowers, pinecones and leaves. He is generally considered the founder of modern rock balancing. For his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials; however, for his permanent sculptures like "Roof", "Stone River" and "Three Cairns", "Moonlit Path" and "Chalk Stones" (Petworth, West Sussex – 2002) he has also employed the use of machine tools.

According to Goldsworthy, "Each work grows, stays, decays – integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image process and decay are implicit."^{[citation needed]}

1 Biography
2 Publications
3 Quotations
4 Notes
5 References
6 See also
7 External links
- 7.1 Exhibitions
- 7.2 Collections

[edit] Biography

The son of F. Allin Goldsworthy (1929–2001), professor of applied mathematics at the University of Leeds, Goldsworthy studied at the Bradford College of Art (1974–1975) and at the Preston Polytechnic (1975–1978) (now the University of Central Lancashire), receiving his bachelor's degree from the latter. In 1993 he was conferred an honorary degree by the University of Bradford. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000.

Goldsworthy is currently an A.D. White Professor-At-Large at Cornell University.

He is a subject of a 2001 documentary feature film Rivers and Tides, directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer.^[1]

[edit] Publications

Enclosure (2007) forthcoming, April 2007 [1] ISBN 0-5000-9336-8
Passage (2004) Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-5005-1191-8
Andy Goldsworthy - Refuges D'Art (2002) Editions Artha ISBN 2-8484-5001-0
Midsummer Snowballs (2001) Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-5005-1065-2
Time (2000) Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-5005-1026-1
Wall (2000) Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-5000-1991-6
'arc' (1999) Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-5000-1933-9
Wood (1996) Viking ISBN 0-6708-7137-0
Sheepfolds (1996) Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Ltd ISBN 1-9008-2901-0
Black Stones Red Pools: Dumfriesshire Winter 1994-5 (1995) Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Ltd ISBN 0-9525-4570-5
Stone (1994) Viking ISBN 0-6708-5478-6
Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworth Sculpture 1976-1990 (1993) [Goldsworthy with Terry Friedman]
Ice and Snow Drawings (1992) Fruitmarket Gallery ISBN 0-947912-06-1
Andy Goldsworthy (1990) Viking ISBN 0-6708-3213-8, republished as Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature Abrams ISBN 0-8109-3351-9
Leaves (1989) Common Ground ISBN 1-8703-6407-4
Touching North (1988) Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Ltd ISBN 0-9482-7406-9
Parkland (1988) Yorkshire Sculpture Park ISBN 1-8714-8000-0
Rain sun snow hail mist calm: photoworks by Andy Goldsworthy (1985) Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture ISBN 0-901981-24-9
Hello (2000) Yorkshire Sculpture Park ISBN 1-8714-8000-0

[edit] Quotations

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Andy Goldsworthy

"I think it's incredibly brave to be working flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole."^[2]
"I find some of my new works disturbing, just as I find nature as a whole disturbing. The landscape is often perceived as pastoral, pretty, beautiful – something to be enjoyed as a backdrop to your weekend before gong back to the nitty-gritty of urban life. But anybody who works the land knows it's not like that. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying."^[2]
"One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die."^[2]