Andy Goldsworthy

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ARTIST: WHO IS ANDY GOLDSWORTHY. * WHERE AND WHEN WAS HE BORN. WHAT WAS HIS TRAINING, HAS HE WON ANY AWARDS.
Andy goldworthy was born on the 26th of july 1956 in Cheshire England. He is a british sculptor, photographer, environmental producing sculptor , land art situated in natural and urban settings.
Goldworthy studied in Bradford college of ART from 1974-1975, then moved to preston polytechnic (university of central Lancashire..1975-1978).
Goldsworthy has received 3 awards including the Scottish arts council award (1987), honorary degree from university of Bradford (1993) and OBE (2000).

ARTWORK: HOW DOES HE MAKE HIS ART ? * CHOOSE TWO ARTWORKS AND DISCUSS, DO YOU LIKE THE ARTWORK.
The materials that Goldsworthy’s
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
The project, Roof, will comprise approximately nine stacked slate, low-profile hollow domes five and a half feet high and 27 feet in diameter, with centered oculi two feet in diameter. stone river
320-foot sculpture on the campus of Stanford University. Constructed of sandstone from university buildings destroyed in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes, Stone River is the largest work of outdoor art at the university. In addition to Goldsworthy, a team of eight professional dry-stone wallers from England and Scotland worked 11 hours a day, six days a week, for three and a half weeks (1848 hours) to complete the sculpture on schedule.
I think that Goldsworthy’s artworks are beautiful and different. They are all special in a way. The way that he makes the artworks is amazing using nothing but his bare hands teeth. You don’t find someone like that every day. His a very special and talented man with a beautiful collection of artwork.

AUDIENCE * “one of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artists entire life. What ive learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until the day I die”. (telegraph, march 24
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