Richard Long, one of Britain's most influential living artists, has brought his practice of walking, mud and stone into the Entrance Court of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, in a new installation titled Gravity. The work opened on 4 November 2026 and will remain on view until 11 July 2027, with free admission, alongside the galleries' exhibition John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined.

Long has been at the forefront of conceptual art in Britain since 1967, when he made A Line Made by Walking as a student, photographing the path his feet left in the grass. That single image established the idea that art could be a journey rather than an object, and he has since walked in wilderness regions around the world, recording his routes in photographs, maps and text works built from measurements of time and distance.

In the 1980s he began making mud works with handprints applied directly to walls, and he has continued to build large sculptures from slate, driftwood, footprints and stone, often sourced near the exhibition site. The Yale installation brings those materials into the museum's Entrance Court, putting the natural world at the threshold of the building and asking visitors to encounter it before they reach the galleries.

Long was born in Bristol in 1945, represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1976, won the Turner Prize in 1989 and was knighted in 2018. His major solo exhibitions have included the Rijksmuseum, Tate Britain and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Gravity is his latest invitation to look at landscape not as scenery but as something made by moving through it.