Andy Goldsworthy: Early Works from the Arts Council Collection
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Andy Goldsworthy creates sculptures in the landscape, using nature as the raw material and subject of his work. From stones and twigs to snow and icicles, he uses materials to create works that offer the viewer a heightened experience of the energy and patterning of our natural world.
Created between 1977 and 1979, this exhibition brings together a series of fifteen colour photographs of these works. Photographs often provides the only lasting evidence of the artist’s reworking of nature, preserving 'the optimum moment, the moment when I had not just made the piece, but understood the piece'. For Goldsworthy, a ‘photograph roots itself in the moment when it was taken and in this respect functions differently to painting or drawing. The photograph is time. If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.’
These pictures are selected from the Arts Council Collection, one of the largest loan collections of modern British art in the world.
Image: Andy Goldsworthy Icicle Stack, 1978 © Andy Goldsworthy 2002.
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