Andy Goldsworthy
1956
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Biography
Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist known for his site-specific land art and sculptures created from natural materials like rocks, leaves, and ice. His work often explores the themes of nature, time, and impermanence. Goldsworthy's artistic process involves creating ephemeral installations that interact with the environment and evolve over time, blurring the boundaries between art and nature.
Famous Quotes (5)
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We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.
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All my work is an investigation of the properties of a particular material, the nature of the form, the energy of the place or the moment.
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When I make something, in a field or street, it may vanish, but it's part of the history of those places.
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I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and found tools - a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered.
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Each work grows, stays, decays - integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is persuasive.