Summary
Long made A Square of Ground when he was a student at Central St Martin’s College of Art, London (1966-8). It is a roughly square-shaped three-dimensional section of landscape resembling the kind of geographic or geological model that may be found in a museum for the purpose of explaining topographies. The plaster surface has been carefully textured and realistically painted. It depicts a lake and a river surrounded by rocks and set in undulating green terrain. An Irish Harbour (collection the artist) is a similar work made at the same time, depicting a harbour with rocks and sand. Long had made plaster and water pieces about rivers in baking tins at the age of seven or eight. He has commented: ‘I don’t think you can separate childhood from adulthood. I think you are the same person all through your life. So all the sensibilities that energise you as a child sort of flow through… (read more)
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