Richard Long: Time and Space

Friday 18th September 2015:    Went to The Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol to see the Richard Long 
Exhibition called Time and Space.

Long emphasizes simplicity in his work, which relies on nothing more than the artist's own body and          
the natural environment--a coming together of a place and a moment in time.                                              

This major exhibition focuses specifically on Richard Long's work from recent years, offering an opportunity 
to consider how his work is situated today. It marks an important moment to celebrate a career spanning six decades. He is recognized as one of the most important artists working today.                                              

He makes a work of art in the place he chooses, with the materials that are there, on the slope of a              mountain, high under the sky--a line of stones if there are stones lying lying about, or if the place wants a      circle he makes a circle. Where there are no stones , he can walk up and down the path as often as             possible to make a line visible.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                  
One of his major works in the Arnolfini is Muddy Water Falls.This is a design which covers the whole of one wall in the gallery and was created by the  artist himself using mud from the river Avon.                                                                                 
I have been fascinated by Long's work for quite some time, but particularly when I found an image of 


         A Line in Ireland

He has made work at various times  in several different parts of Ireland but this particular piece appeals to me because it was       created in 1974 and sited in an area that I am very familiar with called The Burren in County Clare.