Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy, OBEis 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth26 July 1956
acceptable breaking fact familiar hammer response stone violent
Breaking stone with a hammer is a familiar and acceptable way of working the material, but is in fact a more violent response than firing.
memories historical stones
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
scary watches stones
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
iron blood stones
The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
stones tests collecting
I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
fire stones heat
Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
stones form reconstruction
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
two growth stones
I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
stones firing
The early firings contained many stones.
important trying stones
When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
stones heat bigs
I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
origin
Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
photography distance way
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
firsts reason
My work comes first, reasons for it follow.