He is well known for his ephemeral pieces which are made from natural materials such as snow, ice, wood, flowers, leaves, sand, mud and twigs. Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire, England, in 1956 and currently resides in Scotland. His art involves natural and found objects to create temporary and permanent sculptures that reflect the character of their environment. He now lives in Dumfriesshire and travels the world undertaking commissions and creating works.Īndy Goldsworthy produces site-specific sculpture and land art set in natural and rural settings. He studied Fine Art at Bradford College of Art from 1974 to 1975 and then at Preston Polytechnic from 1975 to 1978. Stone reflects the artist's increasingly strong conviction that the places in which he works are as essential a part of his art as that which he creates. A decade later, he built a similar dry-stone sculpture, 'Storm King Wall,' in New York. In 1989, Goldsworthy constructed the 'Wall that Went for a Walk' in his native Cumbria, a serpentine wall that hugs and encloses the landscape. Here he took on work as a farm labourer as a schoolboy and said that the repetitive nature of the work informed his future art. Here is an arresting look at art that uses slate, limestone, river boulders, sand, mud and clay-all created by young Scottish artist Goldsworthy. The wall is one of Goldsworthys most recognized and studied figures. He was brought up on the Harrogate side of Leeds in the green belt. Stone House (Bonnington) also continues Goldsworthy’s interest in the house as a frame or container for encounters with profoundly intransigent, undomesticated materials, as in Stone House (2005) or his suite of Clay Houses (Boulder-Room-Holes) for Glenstone Museum (2007-8).Īlongside Stone House (Bonnington), Jupiter Artland’s permanent collection includes three other artworks by Goldsworthy: Clay Tree Wall, Coppice Room and Stone Coppice.Īndy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist. The work is an important deepening of a sculptural experience that emerged in Goldsworthy’s art with Rock Fold (1993), for which he explains, “I removed the soil to reveal the bedrock…revealing something that is there, but which to a large extent is hidden, or not understood, or acknowledged.” The effect is primordial, unearthly and uncanny. In Stone House (Bonnington) bedrock erupts dramatically into the space of the house.
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