Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire in 1956 he was brought up in Yorkshire.
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Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire in 1956 he was brought up in Yorkshire. Goldsworthy studied at Bradford College of Art in 1974- 75 then going onto Preston Polytechnic from 1975-78. Goldsworthy then left college and went on to live in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. He then moved over the border to Langholm, Dumfriesshire, in 1985 and to Penpont one year later. When Goldsworthy was a teenager, living on the outskirts of Leeds, he began to explore the patterns of nature by arranging building blocks in unexpected ways. Throughout Goldsworthy's career, most of his work has been made in the open air, in places such as the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and the North of Canada. Goldsworthy's favourite places for creating art are: the North Pole, Japan, and the Australian outback, Missouri and of course where he lives now Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Andy Goldsworthy uses materials he finds where his art is created. He uses twigs, leaves, stones, snow and ice, reeds and thorns. Most of his work demonstrates the short life...

