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Richard Long has a unique way of working with landscape. Long is an  English sculptor known for his  British land art. won the turner prize award in 1989 for White Water Line. Long has been making work since the mid-1960s, his work has been based on his relationship with the landscape and how humans make marks on the land by walking and his use of natural materials. White Water Line was created by pouring liquid pigment in one continuous movement. 'A walk marks time with an accumulation of footsteps. It defines the form of the land. Walking the roads and paths is to trace a portrait of the country. I have become interested in using a walk to express original ideas about the land, art and walking itself.’ Richard Long Line made by walking Line made by walking is one of his most famous pieces of work.  This line was made on one of Long’s journeys to St Martin’s in a field in Wiltshire where he walked this line over and over until the grass was flat a...

For our Art and context unit we have been asked this week to look at Artists that talk about gender. We looked at a power point and had a class discussion about a few different artists. I wanted to look at an artist called Laurie Simmons. EDIT: i ended up writing about some of her work on another blog post ; https://catrinaannbarquist.blogspot.com/2018/10/photography-rommert-boonstra-laurie.html I was interested in her series called ' Interiors'. In the 70's Simmons started arranging dolls house furniture into these little scenes, she would then photograph them. These images were her own replications of domestic scenes from the 1950's, adverts you might see in magazines for the idealize family home, childhood or house wife. Some seem like just dolls set up in different positions. Others, like Blonde/Red Dress/Kitchen seem to be a housewife in the middle of preparing a meal or fixing a bath, or, as if taking a break from her housework, sitting in th...