Andy Goldsworthy

b. 1956

English sculptor and photographer Andy Goldsworthy lives in Scotland. He creates permanent and ephemeral structures in the outdoors with materials such as stones, leaves, and ice. One of the most prominent exemplars of Land Art, Goldsworthy is the subject of a documentary film, Rivers and Tides (2001). He has mounted projects in the Canadian Arctic; Cumbria, England; and Japan. He has also created temporary installations at the J. Paul Getty Museum (1997); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2004), and the Tate, Liverpool (2004).

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Garden of Stones, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, New York

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Garden of Stones, a garden of trees growing from stone, was planted in 2003 by Goldsworthy, Holocaust survivors, and their families at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on a second-story rooftop. The…