Andy Goldsworthy - Master of Land Art

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Andy Goldsworthy




Andy Goldsworthy OBE (born 26 July 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.







"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."
~AG

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There is a wonderful documentary film made about Andy, "Rivers And Tides", in 2003. If you wonder how he makes some of these beautiful things and why. Here is the first instalment:


http://youtu.be/YkHRZQU6bjI?list=PLBC064C81E2E3A80C

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Iris leaves with Rowan berries




The icicle particles are joint by saliva.

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"I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools--a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn."
~ AG

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