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Sir Richard Julian Long, CBE, RA (born 2 June 1945) is an English sculptor and one of the best-known British land artists. Long is the only artist to have been short-listed four times for the Turner Prize. He was nominated in 1984, 1987 and 1988, and then won the award in 1989 for White Water Line.
Learn about Richard Long's art, bio, and ideas, which explore the relationship between nature and human experience through minimal gestures and materials. See his iconic works of circles, lines, and walks in the landscape, and how he expanded the definitions of sculpture and photography.
- British
- June 2, 1945
- Bristol, England
Richard Long is a prominent English sculptor and practitioner of Land Art. View Richard Long’s 599 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
- British
RICHARD LONG. ARTIST. ART MADE BY WALKING IN LANDSCAPES. PHOTOGRAPHS OF SCULPTURES MADE ALONG THE WAY. WALKS MADE INTO TEXTWORKS. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND A LIST OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS. In the nature of things: Art about mobility, lightness and freedom. Simple creative acts of walking and marking.
May 21, 2017 · Richard Long has been in the vanguard of conceptual art in Britain since he created A Line Made by Walking over half a century ago in 1967, while still a student. This photograph of the path left by his feet in the grass, a fixed line of movement, established a precedent that art could be a journey.
Sir Richard Julian Long, (born 2 June 1945) is an English sculptor and one of the best-known British land artists. Long is the only artist to have been short-listed four times for the Turner Prize. He was nominated in 1984, 1987 and 1988, and then won the award in 1989 for White Water Line.
Jul 1, 2016 · Long leaves a mark or arrangement within an ever-shifting elemental terrain that exerts its own laws of regulation over the end result. This is his way of expressing ideas about time and space, and what it means to be human when removed from the cacophony of contemporary life.