Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor & photographer living in Scotland who creates installations and natural sculptures that become ‘earth art’ in natural and urban environments. He utilizes natural and found objects to give life to creations that are both temporary and permanent…creating a feeling that recognizes the balance between nature’s transient growth cycles and the permanence of the urban world.
Each sculpture or installation gives life and animation to its organic elements, and Goldsworthy commonly uses mass amounts of twigs, thorns, stones, mud, trees, snow, flowers, leaves, pinecones, nuts, icicles…and more of nature’s most inviting mediums.
Some of Goldworthy’s design is only exists moments, just long enough to preserve a photographic record. His art is born and lived as the sun melts the ice, the incoming tide breaks up the piled driftwood, or the stream carries away the meticulously forged chain of leaves. His books, “Time” and “Hand to Earth” contain beautiful photographs of his ethereal work.
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