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Andy Goldsworthy was born on 25 July, 1956 in Cheshire, England, is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist. Discover Andy Goldsworthy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 25 July 1956
Birthday 25 July
Birthplace Cheshire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1956

Andy Goldsworthy (born 25 July 1956) is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings.

Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire on 25 July 1956, the son of Muriel (née Stanger) and F. Allin Goldsworthy (1929–2001), a former professor of applied mathematics at the University of Leeds.

He grew up on the Harrogate side of Leeds.

From the age of 13, he worked on farms as a labourer.

He has likened the repetitive quality of farm tasks to the routine of making sculpture: "A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it."

1974

He studied fine art at Bradford College of Art from 1974 to 1975 and at Preston Polytechnic (now the University of Central Lancashire) from 1975 to 1978, receiving his BA from the latter.

After leaving college, Goldsworthy lived in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cumbria.

1982

In 1982, Goldsworthy married Judith Gregson; they had four children together before separating.

He now lives in the Scottish village of Penpont with his girlfriend, Tina Fiske, an art historian.

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1985

He moved to Scotland in 1985, first living in Langholm and then settling a year later in Penpont, where he still resides.

It has been said that his gradual drift northwards was "due to a way of life over which he did not have complete control", but that contributing factors were opportunities and desires to work in these areas and "reasons of economy".

1993

In 1993, Goldsworthy received an honorary degree from the University of Bradford.

2000

He was an A.D. White Professor-At-Large in Sculpture at Cornell University 2000–2006 and 2006–2008.

2001

Goldsworthy is the subject of a 2001 documentary feature film called Rivers and Tides, directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer.

2002

For his permanent sculptures like "Roof", "Stone River" and "Three Cairns", "Moonlit Path" (Petworth, West Sussex, 2002) and "Chalk Stones" in the South Downs, near West Dean, West Sussex he has employed the use of machine tools.

To create "Roof", Goldsworthy worked with his assistant and five British dry-stone wallers, who were used to make sure the structure could withstand time and nature.

Goldsworthy is generally considered the founder of modern rock balancing.

Photography plays a crucial role in his art due to its often ephemeral and transient state.

Photographs (made primarily by Goldsworthy himself) of site-specific, environmental works allow them to be shared without severing important ties to place.

According to Goldsworthy, "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."

Photography aids Goldsworthy in understanding his works, as much as in communicating them to an audience.

He has said, “Photography is my way of talking, writing and thinking about my art.

It makes me aware of connections and developments that might have not otherwise have been apparent.

It is the visual evidence which runs through my art as a whole and gives me a broader, more distant view of what I am doing.”

2003

In 2003, Goldsworthy produced a commissioned work for the entry courtyard of San Francisco's de Young Museum called "Drawn Stone", which echoes San Francisco's frequent earthquakes and their effects.

His installation included a giant crack in the pavement that broke off into smaller cracks, and broken limestone, which could be used for benches.

The smaller cracks were made with a hammer adding unpredictability to the work as he created it.

The materials used in Goldsworthy's art often include brightly coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns.

He has been quoted as saying, "I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole."

Rather than interfering in natural processes, his work magnifies existing ones through deliberately minimal intervention in the landscape.

Goldsworthy has said “I am reluctant to carve into or break off solid living rock…I feel a difference between large, deep rooted stones and the debris lying at the foot of a cliff, pebbles on a beach…These are loose and unsettled, as if on a journey, and I can work with them in ways I couldn’t with a long resting stone.” Goldsworthy’s commitment to working with available natural materials injects an inherent scarcity and contingency into the work.

In contrast to other artists who work with the land, most of Goldsworthy’s works are small in scale and temporary in their installation.

For these ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials.

His process reveals a preoccupation with temporality and a specific attention to materials which visibly age and decay, a view which stands in contrast to monumentalism in Land Art.

2018

In 2018, Riedelsheimer released a second documentary on Goldsworthy titled Leaning Into the Wind.