Some exist in snow, dust, and even charred grass. Long has created several pieces which hearken back to the original 1967 piece A Line Made by Walking. In 2015, a major solo exhibition Richard Long: Time and Space, at the Arnolfini, celebrated his work in his hometown of Bristol. In 2009, a retrospective of Long's work entitled "Heaven and Earth," appeared at the Tate Britain. Permanent installations include Riverlines (2006) at the Hearst Tower in New York, US (at about 35 x 50 feet (11 x 15 metres) this was at the time the biggest wall work he had ever made) Planet Circle (1991) at the Museum de Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands and White Water Falls (2012) in the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia. Long's land art there consists of a circle of Cornish slate at the end of a path mown through the grass. It is where my human characteristics meet the natural forces and patterns of the world, and that is really the kind of subject of my work." īrittany red stone circle, Museum of Grenoble (1978)Īt Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned a sculpture to the east of the house. a balance between the patterns of nature and formalism of human, abstract ideas of lines and circles. Long explains, "you could say that my work is. The connection of the slates and the geometric shape illustrates a common theme that Long portrays in his work about the relationship between man and nature. All pieces of stone must touch so that they can be locked together and stable, as well as the pieces must form a circle. The piece can be configured differently, however Long has specified a few rules on how it should be put together. The piece is nearly 2 metres in diameter and is composed of 168 pieces of slate that came from the Delabole quarry in Cornwall, United Kingdom. His piece Delabole Slate Circle, acquired from the Tate Modern in 1997, is a central piece in Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. Other pieces consist of photographs or maps of unaltered landscapes accompanied by texts detailing the location and time of the walk it indicates. In his work, often cited as a response to the environments he walked in, the landscape would be deliberately changed in some way, as in A Line Made by Walking (1967), and sometimes sculptures were made in the landscape from rocks or similar found materials and then photographed. Not only is he using alternative materials such as rock and earth, but he also changed what art is, as the actual art piece can be the process of creating the art itself. His work has influenced the boundaries of sculpture to not be limited to only "traditional" materials and to be able to use alternative materials in his work. His work has proven to be revolutionary as it has changed how society views sculpture. Long has been taking these walks since the mid 1960s where he has walked in places such as the Sahara Desert, Australia, Iceland and near his home in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Several of his works were based around walks that he has made, and as well as land based natural sculpture, he uses the mediums of photography, text and maps of the landscape he has walked over. Between 19 he studied at the West of England College of Art, and then, from 1966 to 1968, at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, where he studied under Anthony Caro and Phillip King and became closely associated with fellow student Hamish Fulton. Long was born in Bristol, in south-west England. In exhibitions his work is typically displayed with the materials or through documentary photographs of his performances and experiences. His work typically is made of earth, rock, mud, stone and other nature based materials. Long's work has broadened the idea of sculpture to be a part of performance art and conceptual art. His work is on permanent display in Britain at the Tate and Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery as well as galleries in America, Switzerland and Australia. Long studied at Saint Martin's School of Art before going on to create work using various media including sculpture, photography and text.
He lives and works in Bristol, the city in which he was born. He was nominated in 1984, 19, and then won the award in 1989 for White Water Line. Long is the only artist to have been short-listed four times for the Turner Prize. Sir Richard Julian Long, CBE, RA (born 2 June 1945) is an English sculptor and one of the best-known British land artists.
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