01. Andy Goldsworthy

A prominent figure on the global art scene and part of the Land Art movement, British artist Andy Goldsworthy has been exploring all sorts of natural environments and landscapes since the late 1970s, instilling them with exquisitely subtle works fashioned from elements found in nature, in total harmony with their specific settings.

Andy Goldsworthy sculpts ice and snow, builds stone arches, prunes branches, composes using oak or maple leaves, arranges dandelion flowers or assembles pebbles. He works with the elements, the sun, rain or the sea, and makes the most of the seasons to express his art.

“Each pile is much more than the sum of its parts. There are cairns of light, of colour, of cold, of water ... and of stone. Between them I have brought together the moonlight, the setting sun, the rising tide and the hard frost.” Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is a composer who takes fresh approaches to nature, guided by his imagination. His projects have taken him to the US, Australia, Japan, France, and even the North Pole. But his favourite playground is still Scotland, where he has lived for the past twenty odd years.

Toying with the stump of a chopped down plane tree, from which a few new shoots have dared to grow afresh, the artist has designed a new cairn for Chaumont-sur-Loire, in which stone and vegetation interact in an embrace that grows ever more intimate as the years pass.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Andy GOLDSWORTHY
GREAT-BRITAIN