Andrew Goldsworthy, a renowned British sculptor, creates temporary landscape art installations out of sticks and stones, and anything and everything else that he finds outside. The son of a mathematician, Goldsworthy grew up working on farms before eventually getting his BA from what is now the University of Central Lancashire.
Andrew Goldsworthy quotes:
“When I make something, in a field, street or altering the landscape, it may vanish, but it’s part of the history of those places.”
“In the early days, my work was about collapse and decay. Now some of the changes that occur are too beautiful to be described as simply decay.”
Much of Goldsworthy’s land art is transient and ephemeral, a comment on Time and Earth’s fragility, comparing leaves and rocks and their different transition time lines. His art inspired Cedar Hill Prep students in Grades 3-8 to make their own “Earth Art” sculptures.
Our Sculptures:
In-person students built their sculptures in the school campus “woods”. Virtual students built in their backyards. While Goldsworthy used hundreds of natural pieces, students had a minimum of 30. Like Goldsworthy, they had to work quickly before pieces blew away or fell apart (and also because of class time constraints). Like Goldsworthy, the art was preserved by taking photos of it. There were other sculptural gems not shown due to photographic tech issues and acts of nature, such as when some just blew away before the shot, Goldsworthy style!
