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Richard Long CBE

born 1945

In the Cloud 1991
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Biography

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. He lives and works in Bristol, the city in which he was born.

Long studied at Saint Martin's School of Art before going on to create work using various media including sculpture, photography and text. His work is on permanent display in Britain at the Tate and Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery as well as galleries in America, Switzerland and Australia.

Long's work has broadened the idea of sculpture to be a part of performance art and conceptual art. His work typically is made of earth, rock, mud, stone and other nature based materials. In exhibitions his work is typically displayed with the materials or through documentary photographs of his performances and experiences.

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Artworks

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  • Richard Long CBE A Line Made by Walking

    1967
  • Richard Long CBE In the Cloud

    1991
    On display at Tate Modern part of Level 4: Joiner Galleries
  • Richard Long CBE River Avon Book

    1979
  • Richard Long CBE Nile (Papers of River Muds)

    1990
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    Richard Long CBE Somerset Willow Line

    1980
  • Richard Long CBE River Avon Mud drawings, Ten Mud-dipped papers

    1988
  • Richard Long CBE Cornish Slate Ellipse

    2009
  • Richard Long CBE Dartmoor Walks

    1972
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