✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

You have reached the limit of free articles.


To enjoy unlimited access to Culture Whisper sign up for FREE.
Find out more about Culture Whisper

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy

Each week, we send newsletters and communication featuring articles, our latest tickets invitations, and exclusive offers.

Occasional information about discounts, special offers and promotions.


OR
LOG IN

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

Thanks for signing up to Culture Whisper.
Please check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your account.



EXPLORE CULTURE WHISPER
✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy
Forgot your username or password?
Don't have an account? Sign Up

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use

Support Us Login
  • Home
  • Going Out
    • Things to do
    • Food & Drink
    • Theatre
    • Visual Arts
    • Cinema
    • Kids
    • Festival
    • Gigs
    • Dance
    • Classical Music
    • Opera
    • Immersive
    • Talks
  • Staying In
    • TV
    • Books
    • Cook
    • Podcast
    • Design
    • Netflix
  • Life & Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Gifting
    • Wellbeing
    • Lifestyle
    • Shopping
    • Jewellery
  • Explore
  • Shopping
  • CW SHOPS
  • Support Us
  • Get Started
  • Tickets
  • CW SHOPS
Get the Best of London Life, Culture and Style
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
Visual Arts

Richard Long: The Spike Island Tapes, Alan Cristea Gallery

20 Feb 15 – 02 Apr 15, Monday - Friday 10am - 5.30 pm Saturday 11am - 2pm (except August)

The largest prints ever made by British sculptor Richard Long for his first solo exhibition at Alan Cristea Gallery

By CW Contributor on 11/2/2015

Richard Long, Mississippi River Blues, 2014,A four panel carborundum relief printed on Hahnemühle Etching White, Courtesy Richard Long and Alan Cristea
Richard Long, Mississippi River Blues, 2014,A four panel carborundum relief printed on Hahnemühle Etching White, Courtesy Richard Long and Alan Cristea
Richard Long: The Spike Island Tapes, Alan Cristea Gallery Richard Long: The Spike Island Tapes, Alan Cristea Gallery Ali Godwin
It’s not often that an artist as seasoned as Richard Long starts working with a new medium, and it’s even more unusual when the gallery itself has made the suggestion. All the more reason not to miss the artist’s first exhibition at Alan Cristea, 31 Cork Street.
Richard Long Alan Cristea London exhibition
Sculptor Richard Long, four-time nominee of the Turner prize, and cornerstone of British Land Art, presents seventeen new monumental carborundum relief prints. They are the largest he’s ever made and comprise some of his most colourful works to date.
Richard Long techniques
Although he is no newcomer to the print processes of silkscreen, etching and lithography, it is the first time he has worked with carborundum relief painting. The particular technique was suggested as it enables him to work directly with his hand on the plate, replicating the technique he uses for his mud works.
Working off twelve 4 x 8 aluminium plates, Long explores different ways of manipulating the medium: propping them against walls, creating hand marks, printing in mud-coloured, bright red and green inks, and even masking out shapes before covering the plates with paste using his bare hands.
Spike Island Tapes Alan Cristea
The exhibition title, Spike Island Tapes, is a play on the names The Nashville Tapes, songs recorded by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash 46 years ago, and Spike Island, the art centre in Bristol where Long made his prints. Long regarded the process of making prints at Spike Island as akin to a musician recording tracks in a studio, and he’s named each print after a song.
So if you’re looking for things to do in west London - Alan Cristea exhibits a vivid assortment of works, some earthy and sensual in tone, others vibrant and sunny. It’s certainly proof that Long still has it in him.





What Richard Long: The Spike Island Tapes, Alan Cristea Gallery
Where Alan Cristea Gallery, 43 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5JG | MAP
Nearest tube Green Park (underground)
When 20 Feb 15 – 02 Apr 15, Monday - Friday 10am - 5.30 pm Saturday 11am - 2pm (except August)
Price £Free
Website Click here for more details



Most popular

Things to do in London this weekend: 5 - 7 August
Things to do in London this weekend: 5 - 7 August
London's loveliest indoor swimming pools
London swimming pools you can visit without membership
London Theatre Guide: best plays on now in London (Photograph: Peter Lewicki)
London Theatre Guide: best plays on now in London, 2022
  • Did you know?

    Cork Street, once the home to many art galleries, is now partly under demolition. In 2012, seven galleries were given notice to leave their premises within a year after their landlord, Standard Life Investments, drew up a £90m deal with a property developer that would see 42 flats built above a shopping arcade. A petition to save Cork Street was launched supported by the comedian Graham Norton, actor Bill Nighy, retail guru Mary Portas, and book illustrator Quentin Blake.

Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).

We recommend nearby

  • Scully, St James's

    This is one of London's most inventive new restaurants in a great central dining destination. The sharing menu is something special, reflecting the wide-ranging culinary traditions of chef Ramael Scully's own family heritage, plus his insatiable appetite for travel and new ingredients.

    Read more...
    Book Map

You might like

  • Roger Fenton, Cantiniere 1855 © Wilson Centre for Photography

    Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840 – 1860, Tate Britain

  • Emily Carr, 'Indian War Canoe (Alert Bay)', courtesy of Dulwich Picture Gallery

    From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia, Dulwich Picture Gallery

  • Jo Baer  10 April 2015 - 21 June 2015

    Jo Baer, Camden Arts Centre

  • Sarah Sze, Untitled (Days), 2013-2015 Mixed media, photographs printed on paper, rocks, clay, wood, lamps, extension cords, fabric, tape Dimensions variable. Work made in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.

    Sarah Sze, Victoria Miro



  • The Culture Whisper team
  • Support Us
  • Tickets
  • Contact us
  • Press
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookies
  • Discover
  • Venues
  • Restaurants
  • Stations
  • Boroughs
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
×