Andy Goldsworthy: Pictures

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Elder Leaves
Brough, Cumbria
1 Sept. 1981

Cherry Leaves
Swindale Beck Wood, Cumbria
Nov. 1984

Rowan leaves laid around hole
collecting the last few leaves
nearly finished
dog ran into hole
started again made in the shade on a windy,sunny day
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton
25 Oct. 1987

(Goldsworthy on holes)

Slate crack line
Litle Langdale, Cumbria Feb. 1988

Pebbles around a hole
Kiinagashima-Cho, Japan
7 Dec. 1987

Line and cairn to follow colours in pebbles, St Abbs, The Borders
31 May & 1 June 1985

Holes, Lines

Torn hole
horse chestnut leaves stitched with stalks around the rim
moving in the wind
Cambridge, 24 July 1986

Bramble leaves
turning colour
Hampstead Heath,London
20 Dec. 1985

Poppy petals
wrapped around a boulder
held with water
Sidobre, France
6 June 1989

Japanese maple leaves stitched
together to make a floating chain
the next day it became a hole
supported underneath by a woven briar ring
Ouchiyama-Mura, Japan, 21-22 Nov. 1987

Slab of snow
carved into
leaving a translucent layer
horse chestnut stalks pinned together with thin bamboo

Izumi-Mura, Japan
27 Dec. 1987

Damp / Lichen / Blue Pebbles rubbed with red stones to make edge /
Grey stones rubbed red
Yorkshire, The Borders, Cumbria
1981-84

Change

Rock Works

Holes
Chesire, Cumbria, North Wales, Cambridge
1977-1986

Iris blades pinned together with thorns filled in five sections with rowan berries
fish attacking from below difficult to keep all the berries in
nibbled at by ducks
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton 29 Aug. 1987

Cold Works

Cairns

Rubbings, Wrappings

Slits cut into frozen snow
stormy strong wind
weather and light rapidly changing
Blencathra, Cumbria, 12 Feb. 1988

Early morning calm
knotweed stalks
pushed into lake bottom
made complete by their own reflections
Derwent Water, Cumbria
20 Feb. & 8-9 March 1988
(Goldsworthy on Lake District)

Bracken, Driftwood, Slate & Plane Leaves, Cumbria, Japan, Dumfriesshire, France, 1987-88

Beech tree snowball
Scaur Glen, Dumfriesshire
18 March 1994

Filled in under the branch arch with snow made a hole that changed with the light; Smeared mud around the lip of the hole the next day before reworking the snow below the branch forming an edge, with mud
8-9 Feb. 1996

Earthworks

Slate stack
cracking and shifting as it became heavier
Little Langdale, Cumbria, July 1986

Slate thorn
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
May 1980

Balanced Rocks
Morecambe Bay, Lancashire
May 1978

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 Aug. 1984

Plane
Penpont, Dumfriesshire, 1988-89

Heysham Head, Lancashire
Feb. 1977

Sycamore leaf paper
Penpont Studio, Dumfriesshire
1987

Sycamore
Penpont, Dumfriesshire, 1989

Rainbow Splashes
River Wharfe, Yorkshire
23 Dec. 1980

Leaf Throws
Blairbowrie, Tayside
3 Jan. 1989

The wall
Stonework — Joe Smith
Stonewood, Dumfriesshire, 1988-89

Balanced Winstone
Penpont Studio, Dumfriesshire, 1988

Lay down as it started raining or snowing
waited until the ground became wet or covered before getting up
[Various Sites] Japan, Cumbria, Holland, The Borders 1984-1988

Wood through wall
field gate reworked
Stonework by Joe Smith
Buckhorn, New York
Nov. 1993

(detail)

Leaf Works

Early morning calm knotweed stalks
pushed into lake bottom
made complete by their own reflections
Derwent Water, Cumbria
20 Feb. & 8-9 March 1988
(Goldsworthy on Lake District)

Performance

Sycamore
Haarlemmerhout, Holland
August 1984

Leadgate and Lambton earthworks
Excavator driver - Steve Fox
County Durham
Winter-Spring 1988-89

Sand
brought to an edge
to catch the morning light
Mount Victor Station, South Australia
17-18 July 1991