![]() In the time since, he has collected a team of craftsmen and labourers who follow him around the globe, humping wood and carving stone. He was a guest artist at this sculpture park way back in 1983, when he was still asking himself whether there might be a career at all in making piles of stones off the beach look like Brancusis or in taking vast Scottish snowballs down to London and observing them melt. He grew up not too far from here, on the Harrogate side of Leeds, in a house edging the green belt. A return to the green, green grass of home feels overdue. He has made unlikely cairns in Des Moines, a monumental Holocaust memorial in New York (for which he planted oak trees in giant boulders). Lately, the British countryside's most engaging propagandist has been pursuing his vision all across the world. Goldsworthy is 50 and, as these questions suggest, back in his element. ![]() Goldsworthy creates moments of wonder out of local rocks and earth and trees, and this wandering prompts several questions, which I jot down in my notebook: are all farm animals abstract expressionists? Is one dry-stone waller's work distinguishable from another's? Just how do you suspend these three oak trees in mid-air below ground in the middle of a field? And, is sheep shit more user-friendly (for smearing on gallery windows) than cow shit? If, like me, you can't get enough of his work, you can browse through literally thousands of his photographs here at .Īndy Goldwworthy Carefully Broken Pebbles Scratched White Scotland 1985Īndy Goldsworthy Partly Stripped Sycamore Twigs Yorkshire April 1972Īndy Goldwworthy Snowball in Trees Yorkshire 1980Īndy Goldwworthy Elder Leaf Patch, Cumbria 1983Īndy Goldsworthy Yorkshire Sculpture ParkĪndy Goldwworthy Yellow and Dark Elm Leafwork, Dumfrieshire 1986Īndy Goldwworthy Woven Branch Circular Arch, Dumfrieshire, 1986Īndy Goldwworthy Dandelion Flowers Pinned with Thorns, Cumbria 1985Īndy Goldwworthy Feathers from Dead Heron, Cumbria 1982Īndy Goldwworthy Grass Stalk Line and Mud Covered Rocks, Cumbria 1984Īndy Goldwworthy Balanced River Stones, Cumbria 1983Īndy Goldwworthy Cracked Earth Removed, St.Before I meet Andy Goldsworthy, I have a wander round the retrospective of his work being constructed at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield. Although the view from my apartment window looks out over a brick and concrete city landscape, Andy's images are so potent I can practically smell the icy snow, the wet leaves, and the damp earth. In a 2001 documentary directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer called Rivers and Tides, Goldsworthy discusses how working with nature roots him, and how time away from his work makes him feel rootless. Most images below come from the Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue at the University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, which documents works created from 1976-1986.Īndy gently shapes leaves, snow, ice, twigs, feathers, rocks, and other elements, and blurs the line between natural and man-made beauty. Born in 1956, Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist living in Scotland who has created sublime and beautiful works of art made up of only natural materials. TweetHere in New York City, the weather is shifting from hot humid summer, to the cool crisp days of fall (my favorite time of year) and the seasonal cycle of nature prompted me to look at artists who work with natural elements.
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