Sir Richard Julian Long, CBE, RA 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 currently 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 was born in Bristol, in south-west England. Between 1962 and 1965 he studied at the West of England College of Art, and then, from 1966 to 1968, at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, where he studied under Anthony Caro and Phillip King and became closely associated with fellow student Hamish Fulton.
Several of his works were based around walks that he has made, and as well as land based natural sculpture, he uses the mediums of photography, text and maps of the landscape he has walked over.
In his work, often cited as a response to the environments he walked in, the landscape would be deliberately changed in some way, as in A Line Made by Walking (1967), and sometimes sculptures were made in the landscape from rocks or similar found materials and then photographed. Other pieces consist of photographs or maps of unaltered landscapes accompanied by texts detailing the location and time of the walk it indicates.
His piece Delabole Slate Circle, acquired from the Tate Modern in 1997, is a central piece in Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.
At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned a sculpture to the east of the house. Long's land art there consists of a circle of Cornish slate at the end of a path mown through the grass.
Permanent installations include Riverlines (2006) at the Hearst Tower (at about 35 x 50 feet (11 x 15 meters) this was at the time the biggest wall work he had ever made); Planet Circle (1991) at the Museum De Pont in Tilburg, Netherlands; in the Hallen für Neue Kunst Schaffhausen, Switzerland; and White Water Falls (2012) in the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia.
In 2009, a retrospective of Long’s work entitled "Heaven and Earth," appeared at the Tate Britain.
Long was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours and a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to art.
Long's Whitechapel Slate Circle (1981) brought a record price for the artist in 1989 when it sold for $209,000 at Sotheby's in New York. At another auction in 1992, the piece was estimated far more modestly at $120,000 to $160,000, but bidding never exceeded $110,000; instead, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. purchased it in 1994 through dealer Anthony d'Offay.

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Sir Richard Julian Long, CBE, RA 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 currently 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 was born in Bristol, in south-west England. Between 1962 and 1965 he studied at the West of England College of Art, and then, from 1966 to 1968, at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, where he studied under Anthony Caro and Phillip King and became closely associated with fellow student Hamish Fulton.
Several of his works were based around walks that he has made, and as well as land based natural sculpture, he uses the mediums of photography, text and maps of the landscape he has walked over.
In his work, often cited as a response to the environments he walked in, the landscape would be deliberately changed in some way, as in A Line Made by Walking (1967), and sometimes sculptures were made in the landscape from rocks or similar found materials and then photographed. Other pieces consist of photographs or maps of unaltered landscapes accompanied by texts detailing the location and time of the walk it indicates.
His piece Delabole Slate Circle, acquired from the Tate Modern in 1997, is a central piece in Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.
At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned a sculpture to the east of the house. Long's land art there consists of a circle of Cornish slate at the end of a path mown through the grass.
Permanent installations include Riverlines (2006) at the Hearst Tower (at about 35 x 50 feet (11 x 15 meters) this was at the time the biggest wall work he had ever made); Planet Circle (1991) at the Museum De Pont in Tilburg, Netherlands; in the Hallen für Neue Kunst Schaffhausen, Switzerland; and White Water Falls (2012) in the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia.
In 2009, a retrospective of Long’s work entitled "Heaven and Earth," appeared at the Tate Britain.
Long was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours and a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to art.
Long's Whitechapel Slate Circle (1981) brought a record price for the artist in 1989 when it sold for $209,000 at Sotheby's in New York. At another auction in 1992, the piece was estimated far more modestly at $120,000 to $160,000, but bidding never exceeded $110,000; instead, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. purchased it in 1994 through dealer Anthony d'Offay.

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Sir Richard Long è un fotografo e scultore britannico.È un artista visivo, esponente di primo piano della Land Art, movimento che si colloca nell'ambito dell'arte concettuale.
Dopo il diploma, conseguito presso il West of England College of Art di Bristol, tra il 1966 e il 1968 frequenta a Londra la nota St. Martin's School of Art. Come scultore e fotografo ha ampliato il raggio della sua azione agli interventi sul territorio e alla documentazione - per mezzo di mappe, fotografie, testi scritti e video - delle sue “passeggiate”: performance di non breve durata in contesti paesaggistici e naturali che non comprendono la presenza dell'uomo. L'intento di Long è quello di accreditare la relazione tra l'uomo e l'ambiente come “fatto” creativo per eccellenza, intimo e primitivo, privo di ingombranti implicazioni volontaristiche e di ridondanti mediazioni artificiali. All'inizio Long lascia che le sue passeggiate siano testimoniate da tracce passeggere o da sculture realizzate con materiali molto semplici, reperiti sul posto. Il suo primo lavoro, dal titolo “Una linea fatta passeggiando (A line made by walking)”, è del 1967 e consta di una riproduzione fotografica della linea lasciata nell'erba di un prato dal ripetuto andare e venire dell'artista lungo un percorso predefinito.
Nel 1968 espone a Düsseldorf, alla Galleria Konrad Fischer, e nel decennio successivo imprime alla sua ricerca una svolta importante, che lo porterà a realizzare all'interno di importanti spazi espositivi delle grandi sculture fondate su segni essenziali e archetipici, come spirali e linee, utilizzando i materiali raccolti nel corso delle sue passeggiate solitarie. In alcuni casi opera disegnando col fango sulle mura di musei e gallerie d'arte. Il lavoro di Long si differenzia da quello degli altri artisti che si muovono nel contesto della Land Art per il suo carattere propriamente inglese, legato agli elementi distintivi tipici della sua terra (la campagna, l'ardesia della Cornovaglia, ecc.) e ispirato a sentimenti di leggerezza meditativa e di estetica pensosità che rimandano per certi versi alla pittura inglese di paesaggio del secolo XIX.
Nel 1972 partecipa a documenta di Kassel e nel 1978 alla Biennale di Venezia, dedicata in quell'occasione al rapporto tra l'arte e la natura (l'opera esposta è visibile nel film Dove vai in vacanza? nell'episodio "Le vacanze intelligenti"). Artista di fama internazionale, ha esposto in tutto il mondo ed è presente nelle più prestigiose collezioni d'arte contemporanea. Tra le sue mostre più recenti sono da ricordare le personali alla Galleria Anthony d'Offay di Londra e alla Sperone Westwater di New York, e la retrospettiva presso la Royal West of England Academy di Bristol.
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