Transcript Slide 1

Andy Goldsworthy, born in 1956 in Cheshire and
brought up in Yorkshire, is a British sculptor,
environmentalist and photographer 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.
Carefully broken pebbles
scratched white with another
stone
St. Abbs, Scotland
1 June 1985
• His materials often include twigs, thorns,
stone, mud, snow, icicles, brightlycoloured flowers, pinecones and leaves.
He is generally considered the founder of
modern rock balancing. For his ephemeral
works, Goldsworthy often uses only his
bare hands, teeth, and found tools to
prepare and arrange the materials.
Horse Chestnut tree torn hole, stitched around the
edge with grass stalks, moving in the wind,
Cambridge 1986
Green patch (elm)
[Leaf patches
edges made by finding leaves the
same size
tearing one in two
spitting underneath and pressing
flat onto one another]
Middleton Woods, Yorkshire
7 Novemeber 1980
Dandelion circle on
bluebells
Brough, Cumbria
4 June 1985
Elm leaves
Ilkley, Yorkshire
September 1978
Plane leaf circle
Finsbury Park, London
November 1985