Learn
Environmental artists seek to investigate our human relationship with the environment through embedding their artistic practice within it.
Explore
Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor and photographer, Andy Goldsworthy not only works with nature but in nature. Rather than building monumental constructions on or out of the land, Goldsworthy works with nature, rearranging its natural forms in such a way as to enhance rather than detract from their beauty.
Often quite small in scale, his site-specific pieces are made from ephemeral or organic materials - dandelion flowers lay in a ring or icicles perched on a rock - and then documented through gorgeous color photographs.
Goldsworthy, takes an environmentalist's approach, lending respect toward the natural world as most of his pieces gradually fade away into the land from which they've come.
Watch: "Rivers and Tides" and see Andy Goldsworthy as he creates his sculptures in nature!
Create
Andy Goldsworthy creates environmental art to add and highlight the beauty of nature and the environment.
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Try creating your own earth art sculptures and designs to add to the beauty in your own backyard. Use flower petals, rocks, stones, leaves sticks...
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Explore creating with ice! Create a design or sculpture using ice cubes. As it begins to melt examine how your artwork changes. Do you see something new in your work? Does it change the way you view art? The way you view nature
View some of Goldworthy's beautiful Earth Artworks!
