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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
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Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
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There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.
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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
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My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
Andy Goldsworthy
The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
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