Collection: Richard Long

Richard Long (born 1945) is a British artist whose practice is built on walking in landscape. Since the late 1960s he has made works by walking — leaving marks on the ground, arranging stones and mud, and recording his journeys through maps, photographs and text. His 1967 work A Line Made by Walking, in which he walked back and forth across a field until the flattened grass formed a visible line and then photographed it, is one of the founding works of land art and remains among the most reproduced images in British art of the period. Long’s practice is distinguished by its economy: the walk is the work, the photograph or text is its trace, and the materials — mud, slate, stone, water — are always those found in the landscape itself. He has represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and received the Turner Prize in 1989.