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Andy Goldsworthy has used stone and rocks as his medium in many works. The most immediate antecedents to the Cumbrian Sheepfolds are the walls, cairns, arches and cones he has built over the last decade throughout the world but it was the dry stone wall enclosure at Stone Wood Penpont in Dumfriesshire, in 1989, which initiated his interest in the structure of folds. It also alerted him to the relationship between his work and ideas and the crafts and skills of dry stone walling. 'A waller brings his life, the tradition in which he's working into the work and this was the first time I had made a work that really drew on the social nature of the landscape through the walls and farming traditions ... I found that I was more and more drawn to the derelict old walls which I could rebuild, because that rooted the work into the place and it made a connection with the past and drew the past into it. It didn't just repeat the past or imitate it for nostalgic reasons, it actually made my work stronger because I was using that connection with the place.' (3) lncreasingly Andy Goldsworthy now uses a team of professional dry stone wallers to build his bigger works, including the sheepfolds themselves.
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