The Wick List

Viewing Andy Goldsworthy | Fifty Years at Royal Scottish Academy

The Wick Culture - Andy Goldsworthy, Oak Passage, 2025 and Ferns, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Oak Passage, 2025 and Ferns, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

The Wick Culture - Andy Goldsworthy, Wool Runner, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Wool Runner, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

The Wick Culture - Andy Goldsworthy, Elm leaves held with water to fractured bough of fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 29 October 2010, 2010, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Elm leaves held with water to fractured bough of fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 29 October 2010, 2010, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

The Wick Culture - Viewing Andy Goldsworthy | Fifty Years at Royal Scottish Academy

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The Wick Culture - Andy Goldsworthy, Wool. Hung from fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 6 August 2015, 2015, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Wool. Hung from fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 6 August 2015, 2015, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Oak Passage, 2025 and Ferns, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Wool Runner, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Wool. Hung from fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 6 August 2015, 2015, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

Andy Goldsworthy | Fifty Years

Royal Scottish Academy
26 July – 2 November, 2025

If you’re Edinburgh for the fringe this summer, be sure to also make a stop at the Royal Scottish Academy to see Andy Goldsworthy’s largest and most ambitious indoor exhibition ever – a rare opportunity to see a conventional show by the Scottish artist best known for his works that exist only temporarily made with clay, stones, reeds, branches, snow and ice.

Fifty Years includes more than 200 works, with wow-factor site-specific installations that have earned the exhibition five-star reviews. There are also drawings, documentations and films that span the Scottish artist’s influential five-decade career to date, tracing works he has made everywhere from the Artic Cirlce to the Queensland rainforest to the streets of London.

The show reveals the many facets to Goldsworthy’s unique practice and approach to creating and viewing art, and our fraught and precious relationship with the natural world and animals. “We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So, when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.