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Christmas 2003
Dumfriesshire-based Andy Goldsworthy creates sculpture in the landscape using the materials of nature immediately to hand and the chance conditions of place, time, weather and season. He has exhibited and worked around the world – including the Northern Territories of Canada and the North Pole.
THE SCULPTURES ON THE STAMPS
ICE SPIRAL
(Glen Marlin Falls, Dumfriesshire 1995).
Reconstructed icicles around a tree catching the sunlight
ICICLE STAR
(Scaur Water,
Dumfriesshire 1987).
Icicles thick ends dipped in snow then water held until frozen together
WALL OF FROZEN SNOW
(Izumi-Mura, Japan 1987).
Carved with a stick almost through to the other side
ICE BALL
(Scaur Water, Dumfriesshire 1987).
Thin ice welded with water from dripping ice hollow inside
ICE HOLE
(Capenoch, Dumfriesshire 1996).
Filled in under the branch arch with snow made a hole that changed with the light
SNOW PYRAMIDS
(Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, North Pole 1989).
Spires
Moulded from snow
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Technical Details
Number of stamps: six
Date of issue: 4 November 2003
Design: Dick Davis
Sculptures/photography: Andy Goldsworthy
Printer: De La Rue Security Print, Byfleet, Surrey KT14 7QU
Process: gravure
Stamp designs © Royal Mail Group plc 2003
Format: horizontal
Size: 32mm × 30mm
Die-cut: simulated perforations
Number per sheet: 50
Phosphor bars: as appropriate
Self-adhesive paper
Cover Design: Typearea Limited
Sculpture/photography: Andy Goldsworthy
Cover Design: © Royal Mail Group plc 2003
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