Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Tate Britain
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Turf Circle
Purchased 1976
abstraction
emotions, concepts and ideas
field
formal qualities
geometric
grass
landscape
non-representational
photographic
plants and flowers
<p>Richard Long leaves the studio to create work in outdoor settings. During walks he subtly marks his presence. In the works represented here, he records a temporary impression on turf and picks daisies along two lines to form an ‘X’. These interventions won’t last, but are made permanent in the form of photographs. ‘These works are of the place, they are a rearrangement of it and in time will be reabsorbed by it. I hope to make work for the land, not against it,’ he said.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2023</em></p>
paper print photograph gelatin silver
3 June 2009 – 6 September 2009
2009-09-06
3 June 2009 – 6 September 2009
2009-09-06
2009-06-03
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-06-03
Richard Long 2009
Exhibition
22 January 2011 – 10 April 2011
2011-04-10
22 January 2011 – 10 April 2011
2011-04-10
2011-01-22
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
2011-01-22
British Sculpture: A View Through the 20th Century
Loan-out
12 April 2016 – 29 August 2016
2016-08-29
12 April 2016 – 29 August 2016
2016-08-29
2016-04-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2016-04-12
Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964-1979
Exhibition
9 February 2018 – 7 May 2018
2018-05-07
9 February 2018 – 7 May 2018
2018-05-07
2018-02-09
The Collection: Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire (Lincoln, UK)
2018-02-09
Henry Moore - Almost any landscape
Loan-out
19 December 2022
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-12-19
Gallery 36
Collection based display
Turf Circle
image: 270 × 305 mm
Purchased 1976
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<p>Richard Long leaves the studio to create work in outdoor settings. During walks he subtly marks his presence. In the works represented here, he records a temporary impression on turf and picks daisies along two lines to form an ‘X’. These interventions won’t last, but are made permanent in the form of photographs. ‘These works are of the place, they are a rearrangement of it and in time will be reabsorbed by it. I hope to make work for the land, not against it,’ he said.</p>
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abstraction emotions, concepts and ideas field formal qualities geometric grass landscape non-representational photographic plants and flowers