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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.

Andy Goldsworthy

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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
Artist
Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Sculpture
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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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Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
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