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- Richard Long
- A Line Made by Walking
- 1967
- AR00142
- Artist Rooms
- Richard Long
- Stone Line
- 1980
- GMA 2196
- Richard Long
- Willow Sticks
- 1980
- AR00615
- Artist Rooms
- Richard Long
- River Avon Mud drawings, Ten Mud-dipped papers
- 1988
- AR00616
- Artist Rooms
- Richard Long
- In the Cloud
- 1991
- AR00143
- Scottish Art
- Artist Rooms
- Richard Long
- A cloudless walk (from the portfolio Travaux Publics, Public Works)
- 1996
- GMA 4192 M
- Richard Long
- Macduff Circle
- 2002
- GMA 4483
- On Display
Richard Long (English, born 1945)
Long was born in Bristol, where he still lives. His work is about walking and the direct experience of nature. He trained from 1966-68 at St Martin's School of Art in London, where several of his contemporaries were busy questioning traditional forms of art. From the mid-1960s, while still a student, he began making walks and photographed the trace he had made (the flattened grass, stones laid at regular intervals) or would simply mark the course of the walk on a map. Later, he began laying rocks or twigs in straight lines or circles. By the late 1970s he was reconstructing these works in interior settings, though the walk remained the basis for collecting the natural material. Long won the Turner prize in 1989.
