Richard Long is an English sculptor and photographer known for his land art sculptures created by walking long distances through remote areas. He studied art in the 1960s in Bristol and London. In the 1970s, Long gained international recognition for his sculptures that documented his epic walks, which sometimes lasted for days. His works respect nature and use basic shapes like circles. Long helped establish land art and combined sculpture and photography in his pieces by creating works during walks and then photographing them.

1. Richard Long
Born: Bristol, England 1945.
Richard Long is an English sculptor,
photographer and painter, who
were also closely associated with
the emergence of the new art form,
Land Art.
Richard Long studied at West of
England College, Bristol in 1962 till
1965 and St Martin’s School of Art,
London in 1966 till 1968.
Richard made his international reputation during the 1970s, with the sculptures he had
made that were a ‘result of epic walks’, which sometime lasted for days in remote parts of
the world.
He had great respect for nature and the formal structure of basic shapes, especially circles,
and he also ‘dialogue’ the relationship between the primal gesture of the handprint and
the formal elegance of its display.
References:
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-long-1525
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=richard+long&safe=active&client=safari&channel=
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Untitled, 2016
Medium:
River Avon
Mud and
Linen on
Plywood.
Diameters:
Each panel
200 x 260x 4
cm/ 78 ½ x
102 ½ x 1 2/3
inches.

2. A Line Made by Walking, 1967
Displayed in Tate Gallery, London.
Medium: Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper with graphite on board.
Dimensions: Image 825 x 1125 mm.
Linking to his associates with the new art form of Land Art, he was seen to be one of the
key artists associated with the movement along with Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria,
Michael Heizer and Dennis Oppenheim. Richard was seen to used the combination of
sculpting and photography equally as he would make the sculpture and taken a
photography for his exhibition unlike some of the other artists like Robert Smithson.
Richard Long’s website - http://www.richardlong.org/textworks.html