From the Global to the Local: A Detailed View of Environmental Art and the Creative Force Within By Daniel M. Podrasky
Frame Your Understanding Andy Goldsworthy Environmental Art Tout Quarry Shifting from the Global to the Local Returning Home
Andy Goldsworthy 1956 Goldsworthy born in Cheshire Scotland; however, brought up in Yorkshire Attended Bradford College of Art and Preston Polytechnic 1980-Present Has worked all over the world, mainly outdoors, including such sites within the Lakes District and Yorkshire Dales.
Nature of Goldsworthy’s Art Overview of Goldsworthy’s Style Relationship to the Earth: The modesty in his method is matched by a realism in his demands. He knows that nothing can or should last forever…Once a piece has been illuminated by the perfect light or been borne away by the serendipitous wave, he great-fully bids it a fond farewell—Andy Goldsworthy From the Ancient to the Modern
Overview of Goldsworthy’s Style
Relationship to the Earth…
From the Ancient to the Modern
Finding Our Intention Within Art The variety of intentions within Art: The aesthetic aspect Use of Materials The purpose and/or meaning How background shapes artistic creations A Transition to Eco-Art
Transitioning to Eco-Art Four Aspects of Environmental Art: 1)Multi-sensory works 2) Reconfiguring time 3) Movement through space 4) Ethical Responsibility
Tout Quarry Location Geological Features Artist Works
Location Cliff-top high south of Lyme Bay & Weymouth Bays on the Devon Coast Then: Quarry Now: Artwork Park
Geological Features Portland Stone Formed 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Type of stone & location dictate the art
“Fallen Fossil” "Fallen Fossil came after regular visits to the Museum of Natural History, where I was attracted by some fossils embedded in the matrix stone, punctuating the rough broken quality of the stone…In terms of the future -- for me it was the experience of working collaboratively, this wealth of material, this wealth of space - a contrast to perennially under- resourced, over-crowded art schools. Stone has such a very strong feeling of permanence, of geological time." (Stephen Marsden) Stephen Marsden
Shifting from the Global to the Local Reclamation of Earth in the Seattle Area
Johnson Pit #30 History Seattle-Tacoma Area Is land reclamation negative?
Mill Creek Canyon-Earthworks Park Multi-Purpose Created in 1982 City Project Herbert Bayer
Returning Home Title: Con mi Spiritu Intention Process Relationship to Earth
Additional Resources Websites of Interest: Books of Interest: Passage. By Andy Goldsworthy, 2004 Time. By Andy Goldsworty, 2000 Films: Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers & Tides, 2001 Other Resources : TCXG 340: Landscape & Art—Tyler Budge
Questions Other sites of Land Reclamation/ Environmental Art? Personal Connection to Earth & Art? Should a certain amount of awareness be brought towards Environmental Art in the future, and how?