Andy Goldsworthy | Fifty Years | National Galleries of Scotland

★★★★★'...a stunning retrospective of ceaselessly inventive work.'The Telegraph ★★★★★'Monumental in every sense'The Herald ★★★★★'...plunges viewers into the raw sadness and beauty of rural life.'The Guardian ★★★★★'A portal to a wider place...'The Scotsman   Immerse yourself in this major, large-scale exhibition by Andy Goldsworthy. This summer, the largest ever indoor exhibition by Andy Goldsworthy takes over the National Galleries of Scotland in the heart of Edinburgh. Featuring over 200 works, the show includes stunning installations made in response to the iconic Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) building, as well as drawings, photographs, films, sketchbooks and archival items dating back to the mid-1970s. Goldsworthy is internationally recognised for his work with natural materials such as clay, stones, reeds, branches, leaves, snow and ice. Over fifty years, he has created a unique and highly influential body of work that speaks of our relationship with the land. In Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years the land is brought indoors, in Scotland’s capital city.   Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years has been conceived by the artist as a single immersive artwork in response to the space, materials and character of the RSA building. Occupying all of the upper rooms and most of the lower floor, the exhibition is at once beautiful and ambitious in scale. The interrelationship of humans and the working land is a recurrent theme in Goldsworthy’s art and in the exhibition. He often presents the land as a hard, hostile and brutal place. Fences and barriers feature prominently, in the form of rusted barbed wire stretched across a room, and a massive, cracked clay wall. As in nature, beauty and danger co-exist. While Andy Goldsworthy is one of the most celebrated figures in contemporary art, his work is seldom seen in exhibitions. He has completed outdoor commissions all around the world, from the Arctic Circle to Tasmania, but the inclusion of his work in museum shows is rare. Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years is by far the largest and most ambitious indoor exhibition of his work ever attempted. Never seen before and never to be seen again, this exhibition is set to cement Goldsworthy’s position as one of the leading artists of our time.