Richard Harris

Richard Harris was born in Newton Abbot, Devon, in 1954. He studied at Torquay School of Art (1972-73) and Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (1973-76). After graduating he worked as a resident sculptor at Grizedale Forest (1977-78), then taught at various art schools in Australia (1979-81). Further projects at Grizedale and others in Australia contributed to his growing reputation as a land artist, working in the tradition of Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long and Hamish Fulton - but differently. Japan has regularly welcomed British artists working with landscape, and in 1990 Harris received a commission ...