Slate Cone

Location

Country: Denmark
City: Copenhagen
Place: British Embassy

Andy Goldsworthy is one of several contemporary British artists, like Hamish Fulton and Richard Long, who are associated with ‘Land Art.’ As a boy his first jobs were labouring work on farms – physical activities involving repetitive processes that appealed to him and which he later likened to the way he makes art. He studied fine art at Bradford College of Art in the mid 1970s, completing his BA at Preston Polytechnic in 1978. His first outdoor sculptures were made on the beach at Morecambe Bay while a student in Preston. Since then he has produced sculptures, installations and photographic works in numerous locations around the world. A major retrospective of his work was held in 2007 at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield, for which he made both outdoor and indoor installations.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

slate (as artists material), slate sculpture

Artist

Andy Goldsworthy (1956 - )

Title

Slate Cone

Date

1987-1988

Medium

Slate sculpture

Acquisition

Purchased from Fabian Carlsson Gallery, August 1988; re-made on site at the British Ambassador's residence, Copenhagen, Denmark, by the artist.

GAC number

16646