In 1969, the year he turned 13, Andy Goldsworthy took a job as a farm laborer, picking potatoes near his home on the Harrogate side of Leeds. His passion was sculpture, however, and in 1974 he enrolled at Bradford College of Art. “A lot of my work is like picking potatoes,” he has said. “You have to get into the rhythm of it.” After college, Goldsworthy drifted north, living in Yorkshire, then Lancashire, then Cumbria; in 1985, he settled in Scotland. There he began using the region’s flora and fauna—colored flowers, pinecones, icicles, thorns—to create his works. “My remit is to work with nature as a whole,” he has said. This exhibition in Edinburgh is Goldsworthy’s largest indoor show to date, holding more than 200 works from the 1970s to today—drawings, photographs, films, and sketchbooks. —Elena Clavarino