Representative work by Richard Long
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Artist

Richard Long

b. 1945, Bristol, England · British

Richard Long has used walking as both artistic action and sculptural method since the 1960s. Lines made by repeated footsteps, circles of stone and mud wall drawings connect bodily movement to landscape without monumental intervention.

Walking; sculpture; photography

Major Works

  • 1967A Line Made by Walking
  • 1968A Ten Mile Walk England
  • 1988Sahara Circle
  • 1988Red Slate Circle
  • 1984River Avon Mud Circle
  • 1980sCornish Slate Circle
  • 1972Walking a Line in Peru
  • 1980sStone Line
  • 1980s onwardMud Hand Circles
  • 1967Bristol 1967

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