“Andy Goldsworthy is an extraordinary, innovative British artist whose collaborations with nature produce uniquely personal and intense artworks. Using a seemingly endless range of natural materials—snow, ice, leaves, bark, rock, clay, stones, feathers petals, twigs—he creates outdoor sculpture that manifests, however fleeting, a sympathetic contact with the natural world. Before they disappear, or as they disappear, Goldsworthy, records his work in superb colour photographs.”

-Taken from VisualMelt

http://visualmelt.com/Andy-Goldsworthy

 

Slinkachu

 

In class we looked into a UK artist who’s work features miniature figures fending for themselves in the bustling city, where they are then photographed and left to the abandon of their urban environment.

“These figures embody the estrangement spurred by the over-whelming nature of the modern metropolis, and incite a renewed perspective of the everyday urban experience to those who find them. This sense of isolation and melancholy, however, is accompanied by sense of irony and humour that makes Slinkachu’s commentary all the more poignant.”

 

 

-Photos and Biography taken from Andipa Gallery

 

                                      

http://www.andipa.com/artist/slinkachu