Richard Long: Heaven and Earth

The Observer“ You to leave a gallery feeling so blank, so docile...” A more blandly repetitive artist it is hard to imagine, and, while his fans regard this as evidence of his probity and dedication, there is another view: that he is all out of ideas; that his work is decorative, but dull...

Financial Times“Radically reclaiming landscape as a source of delight...” exteriorising an eclectic vision that has become more and more relevant, and that now ripples out with terrific resonance from the local to a timely, timeless, meditation on the fragility and power of the earth...

The Independent“His work is a very pure form of tourism...” His view of the world is narrowed to the sublime and the picturesque. It is a postcard vision, from which everything else is removed. We've been here before. The early critics of Romantic landscape art saw the way it was going...

The Scotsman“Not yet reviewed”

this is london“Long’s walks are on the tame side...” There’s no edge to this work. This artist may be long on walks — but he’s short on ideas...

Art Review“Not yet reviewed”

Guardian“Back to the origins and innocence of conceptual art...” Sublime and modest: those are the two words I would arrange, like stones on grass, to express Richard Long's achievement...

The Telegraph“Exudes personality and mystery...” Hardship and joy, you know his taste in music, what he has for dinner at the campsite, what he reads, and what he thinks about as he walks. There was that film a couple of year's ago called A Beautiful Mind. That's what we encounter here...

The Times“Like swapping a sticky cocktail for for a glass of sparkling, cold water...” Long shows us a world with which we can keep faith. This is a show to uncloud your head. It feels as sharp and clear as a gulp of pure mountain air...

Time Out“A worthy subject for a major retrospective at Tate Britain...” Long’s mark-making, whether in the trace of a trudged path or in the smudge of a mud-smeared hand, both builds and destroys; adding to and subtracting from the land...