Andy Goldsworthy - land artist, sculptor and photographer
Find out about Andy Goldsworthy (1956-present) - the British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings.
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- Andy Goldsworthy - biography
- BOOKS: About Andy Goldsworthy's work
- Andy Goldsworthy and his work in Museums
- Blogging about Andy Goldworthy
- Andy Goldsworthy Photographs
- BOOKS: Overview of Andy Goldsworthy and his work
- Andy Goldsworthy - Works
- VIDEOS: Andy Goldsworthy on You Tube
- VIDEOS: Andy Goldsworthy on You Tube
- Making A Mark
- Flickr: Photos of work by Andy Goldsworthy
- Comments and Suggestions
Andy Goldsworthy - biography
- Cass Sculpture Foundation - Andy Goldsworthy
- Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire in 1956 and was brought up in Yorkshire. He studied at Bradford College of Art (1974-75) and Preston Polytechnic (1975-78).
Throughout his career most of Goldsworthy's work has been made in the open air, in places as diverse as the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District, Grize Fiord in the Northern Territories of Canada, the North Pole, Japan, the Australian outback, St Louis, Missouri and Dumfriesshire. - Andy Goldsworthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Andy Goldsworthy (born July 26, 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist 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.
He studied fine art at Bradford College of Art (1974-1975) and at the Preston Polytechnic (1975-1978)[1] (now the University of Central Lancashire) in Preston, Lancashire, receiving his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from the latter.[3]
After leaving college, Goldsworthy lived in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. In 1985 he moved to Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and a year later to Penpont. It has been said that his gradual drift northwards was "due to a way of life over which he did not have complete control", but that contributing factors were opportunities and desires to work in these areas and "reasons of economy".[4]
In 1993 he was conferred an honorary degree by the University of Bradford. He is currently an A.D. White Professor-At-Large at Cornell University.[5]
He is the subject of a 2001 documentary feature film Rivers and Tides, directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer.[6]
Andy Goldsworthy and his work in Museums
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Andy Goldsworthy on the Roof
- British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956), known for working in, and with, the natural landscape, was invited by the Museum to create this year's installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, the most dramatic outdoor space for sculpture in New York City.
- Public Art Fund: Andy Goldsworthy
- Garden of Stones, an eloquent garden plan of trees growing from stone, is Andy Goldsworthy's design for the Memorial Garden of The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. The Memorial Garden is a contemplative space dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and honoring those who survived.
- Andy Goldsworthy's Yorkshire Sculpture Park Show Wins South Bank Show Award - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park's major Andy Goldsworthy exhibition has won the Visual Arts Award in the prestigious South Bank Show Awards.
Sited throughout YSP's 500 acres of historic landscape, the exhibition ran between March 2007 and January 2008 and was the culmination of a 20 year relationship between the park and Andy Goldsworthy. - Storm King Art Center - Andy Goldsworthy
- Andy Goldsworthy - Storm King Wall, 1997-98
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Storm King Wall, 1997-98
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Come walk alongside Andy Goldsworthy's extraordinary Storm King Wall. Created over a two-year period, the 2,278-foot-long - NGA - The Andy Goldsworthy Project (1/2005)
- The Andy Goldsworthy ProjectJanuary 22-May 15, 2005
Overview: 7 photographs, 9 diary sheets with photographs, and 6 drawings by British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy documented a 2-part project for the National Gallery of Art. - National Gallery of Art - Andy Goldsworthy: Roof
- British artist Andy Goldsworthy, along with his assistant and a team of workers including four dry-stone wallers also from Britain, installed the sculpture entitled Roof on the ground level of the East Building over the course of nine weeks in the winter of 2004/2005.
The concept for the sculpture emanated from the artist's interest in the origin of Washington building stones, and evokes the natural sources of this urban center. - NGA - The Andy Goldsworthy Project (1/2005)
- The Andy Goldsworthy ProjectJanuary 22-May 15, 2005
Overview: 7 photographs, 9 diary sheets with photographs, and 6 drawings by British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy documented a 2-part project for the National Gallery of Art. - National Gallery of Art - The Andy Goldsworthy Project
- The first phase of the project began in October 2003 when Goldsworthy spent nine days on Government Island, Stafford, Virginia, site of the now abandoned but historic Aquia Creek sandstone quarry, which provided the original stone for the White House and Capitol buildings. The location proved a rich source of materials and inspiration for Goldsworthy. Here he modeled clay, extracted from the quarry and made pliable by a recent rain, into vertical ridges that he affixed to the face of a pointed rock. Goldsworthy documented his work with a diary (sponsored by The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund) and photographs, now owned by the Gallery.
- National Gallery of Art - Andy Goldsworthy' Roof: VR Panorama
- VR Panorama of Andy Goldsworthy's Roof
- NGA | Andy Goldsworthy
- Works by Andy Goldsworthy in the Gallery's Collection
Blogging about Andy Goldworthy
- Making a Mark: Andy Goldsworthy Retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
- Andy Goldsworthy is a land artist. He uses natural materials to make environmentally responsible and sometimes ephemeral sculptures in the open air. A major retrospective exhibition of work by Andy Goldsworthy opened at Yorkshire Sculpture Park on 31st March and lasts until 6 January 2008. I'm hoping I can get to see this when I travel up to Yorkshire for the Art for UK Youth North exhibition later this month.
According to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park this is...
The largest and most ambitious project ever curated at YSP, featuring specially commissioned outdoor works, installations and never before seen archive material (YSP website)
I think Goldsworthy's work is some of the most intriguing and attractive sculpture I've ever seen. I particularly enjoy the fact that he works with natural materials from the locality in which his sculptures are located, develops organic shapes and has a very strong sense of place and heritage. They also have the most amazing shapes and patterns. It's no wonder he's an extremely popular contemporary artist.
(Contains images of work shown in Yorkshire Sculpture Park) - Hatch: The Design Public® Blog %uFFFD Blog Archive %uFFFD Andy Goldsworthy: Wall
- I took my own advice this week and started to pull down and enjoy the books that had been trapped at the bottom of my stacks. Today it was Andy Goldsworthy: Wall. The relationship between his work and its surroundings is transformed by the seasons, the weather, and environmental changes like succession.
Andy Goldsworthy Photographs
- Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue: Home
- Welcome to the on-line Preview of the Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue DVD Volume 1: 1976-1986
These pages make accessible a sample of entries from the Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue DVD (Volume One: 1976-1986). - DCMS | GAC - Andy Goldsworthy Photographs
- Andy Goldsworthy Photographs in the Government Art Collection
- Art & Architecture - Snowballs in Summer
- "Snowballs in Summer" (2000), photographed in Charterhouse Square and Smithfield Market in Smithfield, London, UK. Photographs from the Conway Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
BOOKS: Overview of Andy Goldsworthy and his work
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Andy Goldsworthy - Works
- Andy Goldsworthy Online
- Andy Goldsworthy [British Environmental Artist, born in 1956] Guide to pictures of works by Andy Goldsworthy in art museum sites and image archives ...
- ArtisanCam - Artists - Andy Goldsworthy
- Andy Goldsworthy Each featured artist has sections on techniques, influences, workshops, questions, teachers' area and a gallery of their work. ...
We filmed Andy as he worked on his largest exhibition to date at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield. You can see how he tackled the problems of making three very large works, in stone, clay and chestnut stalks for the gallery spaces. - Andy Goldsworthy on artnet
- Andy Goldsworthy (British, 1956) - Find works of art, auction results & sale prices of artist Andy Goldsworthy at galleries and auctions worldwide.
- Artist/Naturalist Andy Goldsworthy
- Andy Goldsworthy is a brilliant British artist who collaborates with nature to make his creations. Besides England and Scotland, his work has been created ...
- What is Art? What is an Artist? Photograph by Andy Goldsworthy
- Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental sculptor in which his use of the natural surroundings create an art form. He explores and experiments with various ...
- Andy Goldsworthy: the beauty of creation
- Andy Goldsworthy rather lets his clay dry in the sun. Sometimes the processing is negative: as when man-made structures of sand are dismantled through the ...
- Q&A with Andy Goldsworthy - TIME
- Apr 13, 2007 ... The British artist who gets his inspiration and material from the natural world talks about his youth, his vision and his largest exhibition ...
- Eyestorm : Artist : Andy Goldsworthy
- Since the late 70s, Andy Goldsworthy has been making site-specific work in the landscape, using nature itself as a 'found object' - as both the subject and ...
- Storm King Art Center - Andy Goldsworthy
- Come walk alongside Andy Goldsworthy's extraordinary Storm King Wall. Created over a two-year period, the 2278-foot-long site-specific sculpture was made ...
- Andy Goldsworthy | 21ST CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE
- Information about the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy including a full biography, details about commissioned sculpture and 3682 portfolio images.
- Andy Goldsworthy, Autumn Works
- British artist Andy Goldsworthy and several of his autumnal installations.. Aug 28, 2006.
- Cass Sculpture Foundation - Andy Goldsworthy - portfolio
- The portfolio comprises a lot of images of works by Andy Goldsworthy
VIDEOS: Andy Goldsworthy on You Tube
Rivers and Tides
A clip from the beautiful documentary on Andy Goldsworthy, "Rivers and Tides". If you enjoy this clip, please support his work by purchasing the dvd. In this clip he works on hanging a meticulous sculpture from a tree, and ultimately fails.
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VIDEOS: Andy Goldsworthy on You Tube
Some of the videos are of the work - and some are of the artist at work. Some are peaceful - and some are not!
Making A Mark
Katherine Tyrrell's blog about: - Making marks with pastels, pencils and pen and ink - Creating new drawings and paintings - Influences on developing both artwork and art careers - Interviews with artists - Information about resources for artists and art
See also my blog post about the exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Andy Goldsworthy Retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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