‘Forest Flashpoints’ is an essay in Grizedale Arts book ‘Adding Complexity to Confusion’, P120-122, published by Grizedale Arts in 2009.  Download Forest Flashpoints to read my essay which sets up a virtual dialogue between Andy Goldsworthy and Grizedale Arts’ approaches to making work.

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Andy Goldsworthy’s balls of snow have been insured by Hiscox, the specialist art insurers, against events that could happen but are not desired, such as ‘being vandalised or run down by a car – anything other than it just disappearing in front of your eyes, which is the point of art’…