Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy About Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy is known for his outdoor sculptural interventions and indoor installations that transform nature’s most familiar elements into graceful designs. Using color and geometric form to order found materials - such as stone, trees, mud, grass, snow, ice, and leaves - Goldsworthy creates visual displays in which the changing nature of the materials is as much a part of the work as the design itself. With their apparent effortlessness, Goldsworthy’s creations impart a sense of wonder, drawing attention to the inherent power, beauty, and mystery of nature. The simplicity of each work belies its labor-intensive origins, the hours spent gathering stones of a certain type, layering colored leaves into a circle, or patiently waiting as a circle of water freezes to ice. Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire, England in 1956. Since the 1970s, he has been making sculptures and installations with and about nature. The Memorial Garden is a contemplative space dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and honoring those who survived. About the Garden of Stones The Memorial Garden is a contemplative space dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and honoring those who survived. For Garden of Stones, Goldsworthy worked with nature’s most elemental materials - stone, trees, and soil - to create a garden that is the artist’s metaphor for the tenacity and fragility of life. Eighteen boulders form a series of narrow pathways in the Memorial Garden’s 4,150-square-foot space. A single dwarf oak sapling emerges from the top of each boulder, growing straight from the stone. As the trees mature in the coming years, each will grow to become a part of the stone, its trunk widening and fusing to the base.