Andy Goldsworthy: Sculptor, Photographer, Environmentalist

Using an endless range of natural materials—snow, ice, flowers, leaves, icicles, mud, pine-cones, stones, twigs, thorns, bark, rock, clay, feathers,

petals, twigs—Andy Goldsworthy creates outdoor sculptures that are usually transient that disappear shortly after creation.

Goldsworthy works almost exclusively with his hands even sometimes his teeth or “found tools in nature” to build his sculptures.

His work is almost always temporary and almost always done outdoors lasting minutes, a few days, or weeks decaying or changing in the environment.

His documents all his work through his photographs which record how his sculptures change and and the effects of time in nature.

Permanent Installations: Storm King Art CenterCornwall, NY

Purchase CollegePurchase, NY

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Slate Sculpture entitled “Roof”

Park Presidio in San Francisco

Giant Snowballs in London: In June of 2000, Goldsworthy transplanted 13 snowballs each weighing a ton which had been kept in freezers throughout the streets of London. As they melted, pebbles, pine combs, and chalk and other materials from the Scottish countryside

were revealed within!