Andy Goldsworthy - Resources for Art Lovers

Andy Goldsworthy is known as a "land artist". This means that his art is created out of the land and things found on it. Materials that he uses include rocks, leaves, twigs, stones and any substance found in the natural environment. Photography is also a feature of his work as a number of his creations are ephemeral.

His art is also created as a response to the natural features of the earth such as time and light and the seasons, nature and growth and decline.

Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire in 1956. His education and studies included attending Harrogate High School, Bradford College of Art and Preston Polytechnic. He studied for a BA Fine Art at the latter and graduated in 1978.

Many of Goldsworthy's site-specific works and commissions have been in the North:
- the giant maze and Lambton Earthwork (at County Durham, 1988-9),
- the Grizedale Forest site works (1984 onwards),
- residencies at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1987), the Lake District National Park (1988), and so on.

Goldsworthy has also worked at the Venice Biennale, Grise Fiord and the North Pole, in Japan, Castres and Sidobre in France, and in Haarlem, Holland.

He has had one-man shows in France, Japan, Holland and the UK, and participated in groups shows in Italy, Germany, and the USA.

A major retrospective, Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy: Sculpture: 1976-1990, was held at the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds City Art Gallery: the show also travelled to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, Stedelijke Musea, Gouda and Centre Regionald'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenees in Toulouse.

Goldsworthy's work has appeared on TV and regional news programmes plus appearances on Radio 4's arts show Kaleidoscope and Radio 3's arts interview slot, Third Ear.

In the 1990s, Goldsworthy's art began to rise in popularity: the glossy coffee table book Stone became a bestseller.
- In 1994 Goldsworthy took over some West End galleries with a large one-man show.
- In 1995 he took part in a group show at the British Museum and created sculptures, along with Richard Deacon, Peter Randall-Page and others, in amongst the monumental statuary of the famous Egyptian Hall.
- In 1995, he designed a set of Royal Mail stamps.
- A half-hour BBC TV programme on Goldsworthy's Sheepfolds project was aired in 1997; there was also a Sheepfolds exhibition at Michael Hue-Williams Gallery in London.

Recent works have included:
- Night Path (2002) and Chalk Stones (2003) in Sussex,
- Three Cairns (2002) on the East and West coasts,
- Stone Houses (2004) and Garden of Stones (2003) in Gotham,
- Passage (2005) in London,
- Slate Domes (2005) in Washington, DC and
- an exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

The Digital Catalogue documents, visually and textually, the first ten years of Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral, outdoor practice. It replicates Goldsworthy's Slide Cabinet Index, and includes previously unpublished material from Goldsworthy's Sketchbook Diaries.

The Digital Catalogue project was initiated by the University of Glasgow at the Crichton Campus, Dumfries, and was supported by the University's Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII). It was realised with funding from The Crichton Foundation, Dumfries, and from Private Donors in Dumfries & Galloway.

Please note:
* The Digital Catalogue is not a commercial resource.
* The DVD-Rom is not available for purchase.
* The University of Glasgow does not supply Rights or Reproductions in relation to any works of art by Andy Goldsworthy.
* The University of Glasgow does not supply resources for teachers or educators.
* The University of Glasgow will not receive or respond to correspondence or invitations addressed to Andy Goldsworthy.

This lists sites where you can see images of Goldsworthy's work

These are the museums where you can see some of the physical mainfestations of Goldsworthy's art. Some of the projects have involved working in the museums.