Environmental Artists Research

Environmental Artists Research

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is a sculpture and photographer from Chesire, England. Andy Goldsworthy was born on the 26th July 1956. Andy Goldsworthy studied fine art at the Bramford college of Art (1974-75) and at Preston Polytechnic (now the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, Lancashire where he received his Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree from the latter between the time of 1975 and 1978. Goldsworthy's art movement is a mixture of both Environmental art and Land art and he has had many exhibitions including in Cumbria, Edinburgh, Cornwall, Sussex and even branching out all the way t0 Australia, New York and California. Goldsworthy uses many different types of natural items straight from nature such as stones, chalk, sticks, leaves, rocks, dirt, ferns, icicles, pinecones, snow, twigs, tree bark, conkers, nuts, berries and thorns. Andy has won many awards since 1979-2000.