Sculptor and photographer.  Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire and studied at Bradford Art College and Preston Polytechnic.  Since the late 1970s he was been making site specific work that use nature as a ‘found object’ and underline his interest in the ‘movement, light, growth and decay’ of the natural world.  Works have been made in Britain, Europe, America, Japan and Australia.

Once completed a photographic document is made of the work. The passing seasons mark the changes in his works from fresh green spring leaves to the golden brown dried leaves of autumn, and from rock and sand to snow and ice.  The transitory nature of the materials he uses means that works have to be completed quickly as light and a change in temperature can affect their very existence.  His recent work has a more permanent nature: patterning the landscape with circles, lines and spirals, delicate arches of balanced rocks or cones of earth.  The artist lives and works in Dumfriesshire in Scotland.

Poppy petals
Early morning, before breeze strengthened
Each petal licked underneath and pressed to another
To make a line about seven feet long
Haarlemmerhout, Holland 27 August 1984, 1984
Four cibachrome photographs (displayed in two artist-constructed frames)
149 x 64 cm and 60.2 x 51 cm
One of an edition of 3
Purchased from Common Ground, December 1985