Andy goldsworthy art images

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Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, renowned in his field, that creates temporary landscape art installations out of sticks and stones, and anything and everything else that he finds outside. The son of a mathematician, Goldsworthy grew up working on farms before eventually getting his BA from what is now the University of Central Lancashire. “A lot of my earth art is like picking potatoes,” he told the Guardian. “You have to get into the rhythm of it.”

Much of Goldsworthy’s land art is transient and ephemeral, leading many to view it as a comment on the Earth’s fragility. But for Goldsworthy, the picture is more complicated.

“When I make something, in a field, street or altering the landscape, it may vanish, but it’s part of the history of those places,” he says in another interview. “In the early days, my work was about collapse and decay. Now some of the changes that occur are too beautiful to be described as simpl

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Andy Goldsworthy – sublime and beautiful environmental art

Here 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. 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. 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. Andy gently shapes leaves, snow, ice, twigs, feathers, rocks, and other elements, and blurs the line between natural and man-made beauty. 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. Although the view

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Andy Goldsworthy

James Reginato, "Andy Goldsworthy is just about ready to reveal his ‘most important’ work," Financial Times, April 26, 2024

Megan Gray, "A New Sculpture Winds Through College of the Atlantic," Portland Press Herald, September 2, 2023

Max Blue, "A sculptor's work caught fire in the Presidio—and the art kept burning," San FranciscoExaminer, March 23, 2022

Jessica Zack, "Andy Goldsworthy channels destruction and rebirth at the relocated Haines Gallery," San Francisco Chronicle, March 11, 2022

Julie Baumgardner, "How Doug Aitken, Andy Goldsworthy, and Other Artists Turned a Former Retreat for San Francisco Elites Into a Stark Reminder of Climate Chainge," Artnet News, November 26, 2021

Sam Whiting, "Provocative eco-art exhibition in S.F. forces confrontations with climate change," San Francisco Chronicle, November 11, 2021

Marley Marius, "Set Against the Crashing Waves of the Pacific, a New Art Exhibition Ta