Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy, what to say… In his own words, Goldsworthy’s work:

….is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.  - A. Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy has many titles; artist, environmental sculptor, photographer, environmentalist… Whatever he is, his work is compelling in both an aesthetic sense as well as the way it begins to reveal the everchanging movement and processes of nature.  

All of Goldsworthy’s sculpture is created from natural found objects and captured on film. As nature is always changing many of these pieces no longer exist.  Below is a small sampling of his work.  Stones, leaves, rocks, branches, ice… can be found among these images. 

There is a documentary of Goldsworthy made in 2001 called Rivers and Tides.  Check out this youtube clip of the film to get a taste of it.  Many of his pieces need to be seen on film as opposed to static pictures as they are in motion and ephemeral.

Photography & Website

Website:  We have a new one. Please come have a look! www.phillipsgarden.com

Photography: These might be the funniest, most likable photos we’ve seen in a long time done by the London based artist Slinkachu. Slinkachu has spent the last several years photographing tiny hand-painted figurines all around London. These pictures deal with space and scale in a lighthearted way. Images are generally a long shot (from a more typical human viewpoint) to a tight small shot where one finds the figurines doing their thang. Slinkachu has a great blog as well. Check it out. A sampling of the photography is below.

Sculpture

In 2006 we comissioned a San Francisco based artist Su Chen Hung to create a sculpture for the front of our studio space. She came up with a spiral design made of steel and bamboo with spiraled ground-cover of Creeping Thyme that mimics the sculptural design. This piece is called “Walk around Time”, and acts as both a wind chime and a piece of art:

This design in Minneapolis at Phillips Garden Studio, inspired Su Chen to create another piece in Taiwan taking the idea of the bamboo spiral further. This piece was created in 2008 and is called “In Praise of Light and Sound” it can be found at the Shisanhang Museum of Archeology in Taipei, Taiwan.