Richard Shilling
Encyclopedia
Richard Shilling is a British
artist
working in the field of land art
and sculpture
in the North West of England. He is currently artist in residence at Beacon Fell Country Park
, Lancashire and at the Middlewood Trust, Roeburndale.
United Kingdom
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artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
working in the field of land art
Land art
Land art, Earthworks , or Earth art is an art movement which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked...
and sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
in the North West of England. He is currently artist in residence at Beacon Fell Country Park
Beacon Fell Country Park
Beacon Fell is a fell in the civil parish of Goosnargh in Lancashire, England. It has been a Country Park since 1970. It falls within the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty although it is separated from the other hills in the Forest...
, Lancashire and at the Middlewood Trust, Roeburndale.