Author Description

'Time' celebrates the many ways in which Andy Goldsworthy’s art is informed by or evokes the passage of time. Above all, he is concerned with time as it is made manifest in the processes of nature - ‘Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.’ Sometimes, the outcome is actively anticipated; a winter Scottish hillside yields a huge rectangle of compacted snow that becomes ever starker as the surrounding snow melts, until it too fades away; clay walls or floors dry out and craze to reveal previously invisible forms embedded within them. An introduction by the artist conveys a sense of the importance to him of time, change and place. A sequence of works made around his home in Scotland is followed by Goldsworthy’s diaries of visits to five locations in North America and Europe, vividly evoking, in texts and spectacular pictures, the process of exploration and response to each place.