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Artworks
Richard Long
Ebb And Flow, 2018Screenprint on Somerset 410gsm paper155.5 x 66 x 4 cmEdition of 20Courtesy Richard Long and Cristea Roberts Gallery, LondonExhibited price £6,300Further images
Royal Academician Sir Richard Long is a renowned British land artist who makes his work by walking in the landscape all over the world. Whilst Long considers the process of walking the making of the work in itself, he also creates sculptures en route from natural materials such as rocks, slate and earth, which he then photographs.
Royal Academician Sir Richard Long is a renowned British land artist who makes his work by walking in the landscape all over the world. Whilst Long considers the process of walking the making of the work in itself, he also creates sculptures en route from natural materials such as rocks, slate and earth, which he then photographs.
Text works, maps, prints and drawings made between walks comprise a substantial part of Long’s practice. These act as works in their own right, as well as a form of documentation allowing Long to communicate the experience of the solitary journey that he has made.
This work is from a series of prints entitled The Tide is High based on drawings Long made from mud taken from the river in Bristol, the city where he was born and continues to live.
Long’s work has been the subject of several major solo exhibitions at venues all over the world, most recently at Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico City, Mexico (2020), De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands (2019); Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium (2018); and Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK (2017). He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1976 and won the Turner Prize in 1989. He was elected a Royal Academician in 2001, awarded Japan’s Praemium Imperiale in the field of sculpture (2009), made a CBE in 2013 and knighted in the 2018 Honours List.
Richard Long lives and works in Bristol.
