Andy Goldsworthy walk in North Yorkshire Dales (Image heavy)

[Walti]

Andy Goldsworthy is an artist that has been commissioned to install several artworks around the North Dale (Just off Rosedale) and we were lucky enough to get a sneak preview before the installations are fully completed.

The walk takes most of a day, although it is only 6 miles or so, mainly because you tend to stop and look at each installation for so long.

The installation is called Hanging Stones, and if you Google it you'll find a lot more information about it all.

The first building is Called Hanging Stones and you go into the upstairs area first, to be confronted with...



A very large stone set into the floor.... and then you go to the downstairs area....



And suddenly, the Hanging Stones title makes sense... It's massive and slightly breathtaking!



And not touching the ground!





Next up was a small barn, next to a more modern large barn! and inside...



This fills the barn, I needed a fisheye to get the full effect...



again with flash!



Another small barn...



And inside a burnt tree...

If you've been to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, this may be familiar to you!



To put the barn into the landscape...



The next barn is approached from across a few fields



...and isn't quite complete yet...





But inside the installation is well underway, all the installations reflect the surrounding land, and barbed wire is ever present... There were rolls and straight pieces laid out outside so it's not complete inside nor outside yet!

There's too many images for one post, so see part two below

Paul

[Walti]

This post has been deleted and re-posted below as the piccies didn’t show up….

[Keith-369]

I too can see all the pictures in the first section but can't see any of them in the second section, just the explanations.

[Walti]

I'm a little confused as to why you can't see the images, they show up OK for me... I'll log on from a different PC and account...

[Walti]

When I log in as a guest I cannot see them either, I'll re-do post 2 below!

[Barr1e]

That methinks is an interesting walk - thanks for the info.

[Walti]

That methinks is an interesting walk - thanks for the info.

It was a really good walk out...

You have to book, by a rather convoluted route but then you're issued with a key and a map to follow (we only got slightly lost twice) and quite a chunk of it is on private grouse moor, with permissive access, which seems to be getting to be made a permanent arrangement.

[Dewi9]

Must look that walk up and try and get to it before it finishes.

My question would be - How do they hang the stone in the first picture ? Does it have a steel bar through it (it must weigh a fair bit) which is between the floor / ceiling downstairs or is it really in two parts ? Makes you think.

[Walti]

I'm fairly sure it's intended to be permanent, the cost and effort they're going to to re-build some of the buildings and so on......

[Walti]

Part 2 revisited for those where the images haven't worked!

The next barn needed a significant climb to get to, and was perched as high as you could get in this Dale.



The outside had these buttresses on it which seemed out of place, it was also split into two areas, so you could have a picnic in one side, before stepping into the other...







The door had a spring on it and the entrance made you walk to confront this surrounded with darkness... and the religious feeling you got while viewing this made the buttresses on the outside make sense.
There was an optical illusion in place as well, was it another well lit hanging stone?
Or was it a carved recess into the wall?



The walk included this un-restored barn - and some of the barns visited were in worse condition than this, so it served as a reminder of the amount of work that had gone into the art installations.



The next barn was also incomplete, but you were able to get in, to view...


The end wall is made up of very heavy looking rocks/stones and the effect is stunning, the old floor adds to the experience.



The penultimate building was set well into the surrounding countryside...



... with ground level being above the holes in the wall.... so that there was a steady trickle of water through, and the resulting muddy floor and iron oxide trails made up the look of the place, as you can see here there were benches to sit and contemplate and view the installations, these were a common theme through all the barns...



And the final barn, was again incomplete.... both outside and inside, but the intended installation made sense, without seeing it completed!



There are numbered shapes all over the floor carefully laid out...



And numbered logs to be stood onto them, the shapes have been traced from the bottoms of the logs, so they all stand a particular way around....

I hope that's worked OK?

[Keith-369]

Thank you Walti for fixing. I can now see them all.
Well worth the wait and very interesting indeed.
Thanks again for showing.

[Bikie John]

Thanks from me too, I couldn't see them first time round. It looks fascinating, sadly it's a long way from here and I am unlikely to make the trip up to God's Own County to see it for real. At least I can enjoy it here, thank you.

[Otto]

Yes, I couldn’t see them the first time either so thanks for reposting. My sister is an artist and loves Andy’s work, and I must admit I understand why. Thoughtful stuff.