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The art of Andy Goldsworthy has personally inspired Bonnett and me. We have repeatedly watched his DVD film documentary, ‘Rivers and Tides’, to gain inspiration for the work we have done with arranging rocks in our own yard. While an art student at Bradford College and the University of Central Lancashire he was drawn to using nature itself as the material for and medium in which to build and display art. Because so much of his art could not be captured in any other way, Goldsworthy’s work is chronicled in photography, which often has a surreal quality, as we see his art, made with and hauntingly surrounded by the leaves, thorns, rocks, twigs and ice from which it arose... and like all of life and death, including our own, will inevitably be reabsorbed.

“As with all my work, whether it’s a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I’m trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.”

- Andy Goldsworthy (1956- )

 

“A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.”

- Andy Goldsworthy (1956- )

 

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“Ideas must be put to the test. That’s why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I’ve had what I thought were great ideas that just didn’t work.”

- Andy Goldsworthy (1956- )

 

 “A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it.”

- Andy Goldsworthy (1956- )

 

“The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.”

- Andy Goldsworthy (1956- )

 

“The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.”

- Andy Goldsworthy (1956- )

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