Land artist andy goldsworthy biography

Andy Goldsworthyis a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings.

Andy Goldsworthy carves, melts, or otherwise shapes various natural elements into impressive, often temporary works of art around the globe in what is known as "land art." The British visionary uses only snow, stone, wood, water, mud, flower petals, or even his own saliva to construct his works, which have ranged from frozen arches at the North Pole to a seven-foot-long chain of red poppy petals.

"That his touch extends from the most delicate to the most massive materials confirms his position as one of the leading sculptors of our time," declared Kenneth Baker in an article on Goldsworthy's art for Town & Country .


Goldsworthy is of Scottish parentage, but was born in 1956 in Cheshire, a county in northwest England.

His father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Leeds,