Year ten art group spent an afternoon at Stock Hill Woods, following in the footsteps of Andy Goldsworthy.
To complete a term’s work based on sculpture, the year ten art group were treated to a film show showing the work of environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy. Everyone enjoyed the film and it was suggested that the group should have a go at doing some ‘Goldsworthy’ type work for themselves.
Year
ten art group spent an afternoon at Stock Hill Woods, following in the
footsteps of Andy Goldsworthy.
To complete a term’s work based on sculpture, the year ten art group were treated to a film show showing the work of environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy. Everyone enjoyed the film and it was suggested that the group should have a go at doing some ‘Goldsworthy’ type work for themselves.
A trip was planned for the last Monday of term, and luckily, the last Monday of term turned out to be sunny. The whole group, wearing old clothes and boots, set out after lunch, with Mr. Gray who had actually worked with Andy Goldsworthy, several years before, Art teacher, Mrs. Bullock, and Miss Van Sanden, a teaching student and artist. All the staff were excited by the prospects and there was a definite buzz of excitement running through the group as they arrived at the site. The wood had recently undergone some thinning work and there were plenty of suitable natural materials to hand.
Work got off to a slow start but after about an hour, most of the group had developed ideas and work was progressing well. Small work can be very rewarding but what stole the show was a huge and very ambitious idea from Ben Love who produced a ‘high level line’, linking a large number of pine trees together. The idea was beautifully simple but everyone agreed how exciting and dominating the finished work looked.
Another impressive work was produced by Marcus Clayton and Jamie Tomlin who turned a small pool into a beautiful work of art using white dead grass. It is likely that the wind will have destroyed both of these carefully balanced works, but then that is one of the benefits of this type of art; nothing in the forest is changed permanently. Other art works are to be seen in this gallery entry.