Andy Goldsworthy
Carefully broken pebbles
scratched white with another stone
St. Abbs, Scotland
1 June 1985
Andy Goldsworthy, OBE (born 26 July 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specificsculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.
Conversations the Art Brings to the Classroom
- "For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work."
- "Movement, life, growth, and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap into in my work"
- "I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source"
- "The weather is the external space made visible"
How the Artist Exhibits use of MI
Goldsworthy views his work as both an extension of and in conjunction with the natural world that surrounds the work. "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 expressed in the image. Process and decay are implicit."
Goldsworthy exhibits the following Naturalist MI behaviors throughout his process:
Goldsworthy exhibits the following Naturalist MI behaviors throughout his process:
- Works with natural materials found in nature
- Uses natural materials as artist tools to create his artwork
- Views the surrounding elements of nature and weather as co-existing with the artwork
- Supports a "Thoreau" view of the natural world