Timeline 1976-1986
Volume One of the Digital Catalogue covers the period that brackets Goldsworthy's enrolment as a student, his early years following graduation, his first UK outdoor residencies (Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Hampstead Heath, Pollok Park), his first permanent commissions (Grizedale), exhibitions (LYC), and his first international projects (Holland, Germany, USA).
Volume One charts the various locations in which he lived and worked as a student and as an emerging professional artist. During this period, his practice is anchored around six homes or bases: Lancaster, Bentham, Ilkley, Brough, Langholm, and Penpont.
A full, detailed 'Chronology' of Goldsworthy's practice 1975-2000 has been compiled by Terry Friedman, formerly Keeper of Art at Leeds City Art Galleries, and a longstanding friend, supporter, and critic of Goldsworthy's work. The 'Chronology' is published in Time (London, 2000).
This timeline organises the period of 1976-1986 into four phases, reflecting his working patterns, and summarising some of the keyworks that Goldsworthy made within each:
- Phase One | September 1976 - June 1978: Preston Polytechnic, Lancaster Annex
- Phase Two | Summer 1978 - Summer 1981: Bentham and Ilkley, Yorkshire
- Phase Three | September 1981 - Summer 1985: Brough, Cumbria
- Phase Four | September 1985 - December 1986: Dumfriesshire - the first year
Phase One | September 1976 - June 1978: Preston Polytechnic, Lancashire Annex (BA Fine Art), Lancaster
March - June 1976: Morecambe Bay, Heysham Head, River Lune, Silverdale, Levens Hall, Lancaster, Malham Cove, and Arnside in Lancashire; Low Gill, Cumbria; and Alnwick, Northumbria.
Keyworks: 1976_001, 1976_002, 1976_003, 1976_015, 1976_016, 1976_018, 1976_032
Summer 1976: Low Gill and River Hindburn, Cumbria; Wartons Crag and Silverdale, Lancashire; Beamsley, Ilkley, and Leeds, Yorkshire. During September, Goldsworthy visits Grenoble, France.
Keyworks: 1976_059
September - December 1976: Lancaster, Morecambe Bay, Silverdale, Arnside, and Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire; Ilkley, Yorkshire.
Keyworks: 1976_077, 1976_100A
January - March 1977: Ilkley, Leeds, Dales, Pen-y-Ghent, and Clapham, Yorkshire; Morecambe Bay and Heysham Head, Lancashire.
Keyworks: 1977_052, 1977_106, 1977_136, 1977_152, 1977_162
April - June 1977: Leeds and Ilkley, Yorkshire; Langdale, Lake District, Bow Fell and Blencathra, Cumbria; Morecambe Bay, Lancashire.
Keyworks: 1977_313, 1977_372
Summer 1977: Langdale, Cumbria; Morecambe Bay, Lancashire; Southport, Cheshire; Abersoch, Wales.
Keyworks: 1977_370, 1977_385, 1977_400
September - December 1977: Morecambe Bay and Heysham Head, Lancashire; Ilkley and Leeds, Yorkshire.
Keyworks: 1977_414A, 1977_470
January - March 1978: Ilkley and Leeds, Yorkshire; Morecambe Bay, Lancashire.
Keyworks: 1978_023, 1978_044, 1978_101
April - June 1978: Ilkley and Leeds, Yorkshire; Morecambe Bay, Lancashire.
Keyworks: 1978_125, 1978_175, 1978_179
Phase Two | Summer 1978 - Summer 1981: Bentham and Ilkley, Yorkshire
Summer 1978: Devon; Abersoch, Wales; Ilkley and Leeds, Yorkshire; Morecambe Bay, Lancashire.
Keyworks: 1978_250, 1978_281, 1978_274A
September 1978 - January 1979: Morecambe Bay, Lancashire; Ilkley and Leeds, Yorkshire; Lake District, Cumbria.
Keyworks: 1978_326
February - October 1979: Bentham, Clapham, Robert Hall Woods, Ilkley, and Leeds, Yorkshire; Langdale, Cumbria; Abersoch, Wales.
Keyworks: 1979_066, 1979_068, 1979_090, 1979_104, 1979_115, 1979_120, 1979_138, 1979_155, 1979_197
November 1979 - September 1981: Middleton Woods, Monks Wood, Ilkley, River Wharfe, as well as Ingleborough, Bentham, and Clapham, Yorkshire; Blaenau Ffestiniog and Abersoch, Wales; LYC Museum and Art Gallery, Brampton, Cumbria.
Keyworks: 1979_253, 1979_255, 1980_006, 1980_015, 1980_021, 1980_037, 1980_038, 1980_134, 1980_142, 1980_144, 1980_151, 1980_168, 1980_190, 1980_195,1980_245
Phase Three | September 1981 - Summer 1985: Brough, Cumbria
September - December 1981: Brough and Swindale Beck Wood, Cumbria; Abersoch, Wales; Ilkley, Yorkshire; Lune Valley, Lancashire.
Keyworks: 1981_177, 1981_194, 1981_198
1982: Brough, Swindale Beck, and Helbeck Craggs, Cumbria; Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales.
Keyworks: 1982_037-038, 1982_076, 1982_105A, 1982_108, 1982_124, 1982_136, 1982_173, 1982_186
1983: Brough, Helbeck, Swindale Beck, and Grizedale Forest (December), Cumbria; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (October) and Ilkley, Yorkshire; Abersoch and Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales.
Keyworks: 1983_044, 1983_068, 1983_084, 1983_121, 1983_122, 1983_131, 1983_135, 1983_136, 1983_143A, 1983_154
1984: Brough, Helbeck, Swindale, and Grizedale Forest, Cumbria; St. Abbs, Scotland; Haarlem, Holland (August); Ilkley, Yorkshire.
Keyworks: 1984_027, 1984_029, 1984_030, 1984_076, 1984_092, 1984_107, 1984_115A, 1984_153, 1984_158, 1984_168
January - September 1985: Brough, Helbeck, Yosghyll and Grizedale, Cumbria; Langholm, Scotland.
Keyworks: 1985_004, 1985_007, 1985_023, 1985_069A, 1985_070, 1985_071, 1985_072, 1985_073, 1985_086, 1985_087
Phase Four | September 1985 - December 1986: Dumfriesshire - the first year
September 1985 - April 1986: Langholm, Scotland; Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach Germany (3 November - 13 December); Finsbury and Hampstead Heath, London (11 December 85 - 29 January 86).
Keyworks: 1985_122, 1985_128, 1985_142, 1985_143, 1985_155, 1985_156, 1985_157, 1986_010, 1986_027, 1986_027A, 1986_050
April - August 1986: Hooke Park Wood, near Beaminster, Dorset; Leeds and Holbeck Triangle, Yorkshire; Penpont and Langholm, Dumfriesshire.
Keyworks: 1986_070, 1986_074, 1986_079B
September - December 1986: Penpont, Dumfriesshire; St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Lincoln, Lincolnshire; Loughborough Leicestershire; Glasgow, Lanarkshire.
Keyworks: 1986_086-088, 1986_100, 1986_101, 1986_115
