Andy Goldsworthy

Illustrates outdoor sculptures created with a range of natural materials, including snow, ice, leaves, rock, clay, stones, feathers, and twigs

The book is structured around six locations where Goldsworthy has worked over recent years - the semi-desert of Santa Fe, the verdant landscape of New York State in which Cornell University is set, Nova Scotia, forest and coastal areas in Holland, a geological reserve in the south of France and, of course, the area around his home in south-west Scotland. Rich insights into his working methods are provided by the artist's diaries which deliberately document the failures as well as the successes and vividly evoke the ways in which he familiarises himself with a new locale and begins to 'touch' it.An erudite and fully illustrated chronology compiled by Dr. Terry Friedman provides an overall account of Goldsworthy's career to date, showing, among other things, how particular forms often take many years to become fully developed.With a selection of more than 500 illustrations, Time is destined to become the definitive reference source on Goldsworthy's sculpture.

Andy Goldsworthy both parallels and extends the themes and preoccupations that informed the work in "Stone", offering an investigation into wood as he has grown to know it.

A visual exploration of journeys that people, rivers, landscapes, and other natural objects take through space and time includes depictions inspired by the interrelated works of a Scottish sculptor, an elm forest's reflection of history, and the "Garden of Stones" holocaust memorial at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. 50,000 first printing.

Here is an arresting look at art that uses slate, limestone, river boulders, sand, mud and clay--all created by young Scottish artist Goldsworthy. Stone reflects the artist's increasingly strong conviction that the places in which he works are as essential a part of his art as that which he creates. 130 full-color photographs.

Since 1995, Andy Goldsworthy has created a series of artworks in Northwest England in stone enclosures found across the countryside that have been used for assembling, sheltering, and washing sheep for hundreds of years. After working on and off for more than a decade, he completed thirty-five folds, often rebuilding them in the process; many of them can now once again serve their intended purpose. These form the core of Enclosure : they reflect Goldsworthy’s lifelong interest in the land, its history, and the people who work on it. They are accompanied by a rich collection of ephemeral work related in various ways to sheep, including a spectacular series of large sheep paintings—paintings made by the hoof-prints of sheep.Enclosure , which joins the sublime tradition of the art and literature of the landscape of the British Isles, is an exciting addition to the series of eight bestselling books that Goldsworthy has already produced for Abrams.

British artist Andy Goldsworthy, known for creating art outdoors and from natural materials, has now built a 2,278-foot stone wall at Storm King Art Center, a sculpture park on the Hudson River in Mountainville, New York. This sensitive and detailed response to the land-former farmland in an area once rich in stone walls-is one of his most impressive and important permanent artworks. This new work starts by closely following the foundations of an old, dilapidated wall and then makes a series of increasingly voluptuous arabesques before plunging down into a lake. It rises again on the other side and heads straight up a grassy slope to stop dead at a major highway. The book's stunning color photographs show the wall from every vantage point and in all four seasons, as well as documenting ephemeral work made around it. Kenneth Baker's essay considers the Storm King wall in the context of Goldsworthy's other work. The book accompanies an exhibition at Storm King that opens in May 2000. More than 60 photographs in full color, 9 1/2 x 10 1/2" ANDY GOLDSWORTHY was born in 1956 in Cheshire, England. His work is regularly exhibited in Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and elsewhere. Although commissions take him all over the world, the landscape around his home in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, remains at the heart of his work. His previous books include Abrams' Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature, Hand to Earth, Stone, Wood, and Arch. JERRY L. THOMPSON is a highly regarded photographer who has contributed to a number of books, including Abrams' Mark di Suvero. KENNETH BAKER is art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York May-November 2000

A retrospective volume gathers photographs of Goldsworthy's work accompanied by essays, artist's statements, and interviews

Renowned for creating art outdoors and from natural materials, British artist Andy Goldsworthy here offers an inside look at one of his most intriguing projects. Beginning in his home territory of southwest Scotland, Goldsworthy traces the ancient routes along which sheep were once driven over the border to markets in England, building, dismantling, and rebuilding along the way a red standstone arch.Goldsworthy's color photographs record the arch's progress southward, as it is constructed, often in the evening, and taken down early in the morning in a rich variety of on the site of a vanished stone sheep pen in a town center, on land high above a six-lane highway, and half-in and half-out of a stream.While Andy Goldsworthy lives close to the start of the arch's route, writer David Craig lives near its end. Craig shares with Goldsworthy a deep concern with the history of the land, and his text touches both on its ancient geological origins and on the lives of the people who have lived and worked on it over the centuries. All those interested in Goldsworthy's work will appreciate Craig's evocative account of the arch's travels and its reception in the various communities through which it passes.

The many-pointed star formed from large icicles balances on a rock in a quiet Dumfriesshire valley, a delicate bamboo screen stands on a Japanese beach, a great serpentine ridge of earth extends along a disused railway cutting on Tyneside, four massive snow rings mark the position of the North Pole. The creator of these extraordinary pieces of art is Andy Goldsworthy, who for the last fourteen years has worked almost exclusively with the materials he finds in the outdoor environment. Snow, ice, maple leaves, dandelion heads, twigs, pebbles - wherever he is, Andy Goldsworthy uses whatever happens to be around him. Most of his work is ephemeral and he records his creations in fine colour photographs, many of which have accompanying texts that form an integral part of the work. The artists intention is not to "make his mark" on the landscape, but to work with it instinctively, so that his creations manifest, however fleetingly, a sympathetic contact with the natural world.

Just after midnight on June 21, 2000, Midsummer Day, Andy Goldsworthy supervised the unloading of 13 huge snowballs from refrigerated trucks onto the streets of London. What took place as an astonished public came upon these snowballs--each several feet in diameter and weighing about a ton--is captured in spontaneous and evocative pictures taken by photographers working around the clock. Here, then, is the story of Goldsworthy's largest ephemeral work to date. Made in one century and unwrapped to melt very slowly in the next, this is four-dimensional sculpture in which the lifespan and history of the snowballs are as important as their appearance at any moment. As Judith Collins explains in her introduction, and Goldsworthy in his diaries, this is a natural progression from his previous work with snow. Goldsworthy presents a unique confrontation between the wilderness and the city--snowballs made in the Scottish winter brought to the streets of London in the summertime.More than 100 photographs in full color, 144 pages, 8 x 10"

On an almost daily basis, Andy Goldsworthy makes art using the materials and conditions he encounters wherever he is, be it the land around his Scottish home, the mountain regions of France or Spain, or the sidewalks of New York City, Glasgow, or Rio de Janeiro. Out of earth, rocks, leaves, ice, snow, rain, sunlight, and shadow he creates works that exist briefly before they are altered and erased by natural processes. They are documented in his photographs, and their larger meanings are bound up with the forces that they embody: materiality, temporality, growth, vitality, permanence, decay, chance, labor, and memory.Ephemeral Works features approximately 200 of these works, selected by Goldsworthy from thousands he has made between 2001 and the present and arranged in chronological sequence, capturing his creative process as it interacts with material, place, and the passage of time and seasons.--abramsbooks.com

Andy Goldsworthy: Projects presents more than 40 of the artist’s recent large-scale sculptural work from around the world. Using local materials—including stone, clay, and wood—Goldsworthy’s projects are inspired by and interact with the natural landscape. Each project subjects Goldsworthy’s ideas about the work to the brute facts and forces of nature: sunlight, sedimentation, tides, erosion, extremes of heat and cold, and plant growth and decay. Situated mostly throughout Europe and the United States, Goldsworthy’s projects are as beautiful as they are thought-provoking. Each one is accompanied with notes by the artist, and many have not been published previously. Andy Goldsworthy: Projects is a companion volume to Andy Goldsworthy: Ephemeral Works (2015).

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Discover the journey of Andy Goldsworthy, one of the world’s most celebrated land artists, in this new book. Published to accompany a major retrospective at the Royal Scottish Academy from 26 July 2025 to 2 November 2025, Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years offers an insight into the artist’s career, told in his own words.Working with materials such as clay, stones, reeds, branches, leaves, snow and ice, he has, over a fifty-year period, created a unique body of work that speaks of our relationship with the land. This book features an extensive illustrated interview with the artist. He discusses his life and work and how he prepared for a major retrospective exhibition organised by the National Galleries of Scotland and staged at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire, England and lives in Scotland. He has undertaken commissions in the Australian rainforest and on the New Zealand coast; in Rio de Janeiro and New York City; in the New Mexico desert, the mountains of central Spain and on the fells of Dumfriesshire. He has exhibited in the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Palacio di Cristal. Among his recent publications are Ephemeral Works 2004–2014 (Abrams, 2016) and Projects (Abrams, 2017).Patrick Elliott, Chief Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the National Galleries of Scotland, has published extensively on contemporary artists, including Grayson Perry and Joan Eardley. Tor Scott, Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the National Galleries of Scotland, has written and lectured on British Surrealism. Additionally, David Kirkpatrick, a long-time farmer in Dumfries and Galloway, provides a unique perspective on Goldsworthy’s deep connection to the landscape.Whether you are a long-time admirer of Andy Goldsworthy or new to his work, this book is an essential addition to any art lover’s collection — a testament to five decades of creativity, exploration and artistic evolution.

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Des cartes prcises pour vous reprer en un coup d'il. Refuges d'Art est un itinraire pdestre d'une dizaine de jours imagin par Andy Goldsworthy dans le pays dignois, sur le territoire protg de la Rserve Gologique de Haute Provence. Reliant trois Sentinelles en pierres sches tailles que l'artiste cossais a ralises dans trois valles, le trajet de 150 km travers les montagnes emprunte d'anciens chemins et croise les traces d'une vie agricole autrefois intense. Le projet d'Andy Goldsworthy a t de rnover certains de ces btiments en ruines (chapelle, fermes, jas...) afin que les randonneurs puissent s'y abriter, et de crer dans chacun de ces Refuges d'Art une uvre spcifique prenne. Depuis 1999 et avec le soutien du muse Gassendi et de la Rserve Gologique de Haute Provence, six Refuges ont pu tre raliss. D'autres suivront, alliant de singulire faon l'art contemporain et la sauvegarde du patrimoine rural.

THIS IS A 62 PAGE BOOK CONTAINING THE PHOTOWORKS OF THE AUTHOR. IN ADDITION IT HAS A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR AN LISTS OF EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS.

The many-pointed star formed from large icicles balances on a rock in a quiet Dumfriesshire valley, a delicate bamboo screen stands on a Japanese beach, a great serpentine ridge of earth extends along a disused railway cutting on Tyneside, four massive snow rings mark the position of the North Pole. The creator of these extraordinary pieces of art is Andy Goldsworthy, who for the last fourteen years has worked almost exclusively with the materials he finds in the outdoor environment. Snow, ice, maple leaves, dandelion heads, twigs, pebbles - wherever he is, Andy Goldsworthy uses whatever happens to be around him. Most of his work is ephemeral and he records his creations in fine colour photographs, many of which have accompanying texts that form an integral part of the work. The artists intention is not to "make his mark" on the landscape, but to work with it instinctively, so that his creations manifest, however fleetingly, a sympathetic contact with the natural world.

An exhibition catalogue of an installation by Andy Goldsworthy at the Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans.