Representative work by Richard Wentworth
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Richard Wentworth

b. 1947, Samoa · Based in London, United Kingdom

  • Royal College of Art, London (1970)
  • Hornsey College of Art (1966)
  • Sculpture
  • Street Photography
  • Everyday Architectural Interventions

Richard Wentworth is a seminal figure in the New British Sculpture movement whose ongoing photographic series Making Do and Getting By and sculptural installations document everyday human improvisations—such as books wedged under doors or tin cans perched in railings. His work celebrates vernacular human ingenuity and subverts industrial geometry.

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