Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy

Rowan Leaves & Hole

Rowan leaves laid around a hole

29.9 x 29.3 in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, 

October 25, 1987

Bio - Andy Goldsworthy is a British born artist who specializes in works in sculpture, photography and environmental pieces in site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. Many of his works include brightly colored flowers, icicles, leaves, sticks, mud and stone. To attain a more natural approach, Goldsworthy often uses no tools besides his hands and teeth.

Artist Statement- “When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.” -Andy Goldsworthy

Background - Rowan Leaves & Hole was created to embody this sense that nature is ever changing. He does this through his seemingly perfect blending of the leaves into the blackness of the hole. The hole being mortality to show that part of nature is death.

Goldsworthy’s work ties perfectly into the theme of the other work in the galleria. His piece resonates the reality that nature is ever changing with death being a natural part of this cycle.