Arch

  • Andy Goldsworthy &
  • David Craig
Thames & Hudson, £12.95

Arch by Andy Goldsworthy and David Craig (Thames & Hudson, £12.95) is the story of a journey. The ‘traveller’ is an arch made from red sandstone, and its journey retraces an ancient route by which shepherds drove their sheep to market from Scotland down into northern England. The route is demarcated by sheepfolds, simple dry-stone enclosures. Many have vanished, to be subsumed by motorways and towns, while others remain. Close to each one, whatever its fate, the arch was erected, stood overnight, and was then dismantled to resume its wanderings to the next fold. Unlike the sheep before it, the arch travelled by truck.