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ichard Long's Time and Space is the Arnolfini's blockbuster exhibition of 2015. The show is a significant part of the

Bristol 2015: European Green Capital arts, craft and exhibitions programme – and represents a major coup for Arnolfini. Long is one of the most acclaimed land and conceptual artists of the past 40 years, and this solo exhibition will be his first in his native Bristol since 2000. The show will explore how Long's work and modus operandi have developed over his lengthy career – and how that work is inextricably linked to, and created from, the landscape.

Born in Bristol in 1945, Long studied at the West of England College of Art, housed within the RWA building on Queen’s Road in Clifton. After graduation, he attended London’s St Martin's School of Art, studying under the English abstract sculptor Anthony Caro. This period – the late 1960s – saw the emergence of ‘land art’, the genre with which Long is most closely associated.

Land art was born out of the anarchic, aiming to be egalitarian and challenging the preconceptions of viewer, artist and buyer, conceptual and modernist art movements. It is an artistic genre where landscape and the work of art are irrevocably entwined. Not only is the art form a part of the landscape, it is also created from that which

His breakthrough piece A Line Made by Walking was created when he walked across a patch of grass in a straight line repeatedly and photographed the result in monochrome. And Boyhood Line, a new landscape piece for Bristol as part of the Arnolfini show, will repeat this process across the Downs, marking the tracks of well-worn though unofficial paths made by the general public as they cross the grass.

Long’s pieces have been displayed in numerous galleries across the world. And, while exhibiting in a gallery may seem like the antithesis of the land art philosophy, in Long's case it works spectacularly well. He genuinely brings nature inside – not just the gallery but also the accepted norms of gallery shows and art shown in galleries.

Using mud as paint, often applied using his hands, Long creates monumental paintings, composed of geometric circles and lines which seem to ebb and flow off the canvas, wall or floor. His sculptures using irregularly shaped stones – such as South Bank Circle, a circle of jagged, dark stone – are both regular and irregular, inciting questions whilst being unexpectedly visually compelling. Long will be showing several new gallery pieces for the Arnolfini show, alongside faithful recreations of older work created throughout his career.

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countries such as Bolivia, Canada and Mongolia, which provided starting points for impressive sculptures.

Walks and walking remain an integral element of Long’s work and creative process to this day. His work does not intervene in and alter the landscape significantly: rather, he leaves traces of his passing by, for example, upending a rock, creating a stone circle or simply photographing the route made across grass he tracks through.

Sometimes Long's walks follow a definite and defined route, at other times they are more organic and capricious – much the same as his gallery-based work.

makes the landscape – earth, wood, soil, stone, and water, combined with non-natural materials such as metal and concrete. Much land art rejects the manufactured, the artificial and the commercialisation of art which was an inevitable result of art being displayed in galleries.

Long himself came to the attention of the art cognoscenti when he showed his first major piece at the 1969 Earth Art exhibition at Cornell University, New York. During the following decade his work began to have a significant impact on the international contemporary art scene. His works from this time were born from walks through

Long walks

Richard Long: Time and Space is at the Arnolfini from Sunday, July 30. Boyhood Line is already in situ on The Downs. For more information, visit www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/richard-long-time-and-space

Richard Long image: James Wainman & Lisson Gallery

Lou Trimby previews the Arnolfini's blockbuster Richard Long exhibition

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November Classical

This month Colston Hall continues its partnership with the Royal Academy of Music, presenting bite-sized afternoon performances from rising stars. November highlights include a visit from the Fitzroy String Quartet with a programme that includes Bartok’s String Quartet no.3, with its increasingly adventurous harmonies and counterpoint and dance-like second movement, and the very last of Beethoven’s superb late quartets, Op. 135 (NB young people aged 8 to 25 can attend for free: ask for a CAVATINA ticket at the Box Office. Proof of age may be required). Earlier, on November 3, gifted Russian pianist Alexandra Gracheva gives us a programme including Scriabin’s Sonata no.1, Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantasy and four Debussy Preludes.

Across the centre, St George’s highlights this month include the beguiling Wonderland (Nov 22), which marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s great fantasy novel. Twelve of the world’s most renowned composers – including Roxanna Panufnik, Howard Blake, Stephen Hough, Colin Matthews and Gwilym Simcock

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The Naturals come of ageFor once the phrase ‘long-awaited debut’ isn't an exaggeration. Faces on the Bristol scene for well over a decade, The Naturals formed when most of the members weren't yet in their teens. They've since matured into one of the city's most artful bands, with a dubby, psychedelic take on indie rock that makes more sense than ever over a full-length set. Produced by Dominic Mitchison (Velcro Hooks) and Seb Gainsborough (Vessel/Young Echo), Hive is available for pre-order from howlingowlrecords.bigcartel.com. Don't miss the launch show at Thekla on November 27.

– have each written a short new piece inspired by one of the book’s 12 chapters. The new works will be interspersed by a narrator reading a special adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s work.

The previous night (Nov 21), the 100-strong City of Bristol Choir, soloist Olena Shvetsova and conductor David Ogden will give us what promises to be a magical candlelit rendering of Rachmaninov’s moving and deeply spiritual Vespers. Staying with local talent, on 14 Nov Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra are joined by Bristol-schooled twin sisters Charis Jenson (violin) and Kirsten Jenson (cello) for a performance of Brahms’ beautiful Double Concerto, alongside Schumann’s uplifting, lyrical second symphony and Beethoven’s fiery and expressive Egmont Overture.

Speaking of Schumann, on November 6 tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Anna Tilbrook present a programme including Dichterliebe, the greatest of Schumann’s song cycles with its span of emotions from love and passion to heartache and betrayal. The programme also includes Vaughan Williams’ quintessentially English song cycle based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Songs of Travel. By Steve Wright

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he temptation to pigeonhole musicians is one few music writers can resist. It's a quick and easy shorthand, meaning nobody has to think too much about what they actually

sound like. But sometimes an artist emerges who defies such simple classification. Variously described as a singer-songwriter, folk artist and creator of experimental pop, Norway’s Jenny Hval is one of them. How does she view and hear her own work?

“'What is experimental?” she wonders. “It seems to be a very subjective term. At the moment I also see it everywhere – everyone is experimental, every festival is experimental. It must be trendy. I’m definitely not trendy, so that means that my music isn’t experimental.” Jenny's work incorporates elements of noise music and she has worked with renowned noise artist and producer Lasse Marhaug, which may seem a little surprising on first listen to her songs. “To me there’s not a huge difference between noise sequences and sequences of found sound,” she says, “or heightened emotion, intense power, sudden shifts… those things are central to how I write. But there are strong elements of Lasse’s work on the album. He definitely has a noise sensibility and a great ear for mixing. I learn a lot from that.”

Jenny’s startlingly open, honest lyrics are framed by stunning melodies. For some, this apparent discord between words and music adds to their power. “A beautiful melody

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Lou Trimby speaks to Norway’s splendidly unclassifiable Jenny Hval

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coupled with jarring lyrics is a perfectly natural thing,” she feels. “Humans are complex, aren’t we? And beauty isn’t a problem. It always comes with baggage, it’s just about looking closer. Sometimes I find words

there, sometimes a way of singing. Other times it’s more of an ambient thing – I find a reverb sound

I like. The unconscious comes both with and without lyrics!”

“Most of the time I use spoken word when I’m too lazy to come up with a song,” she continues, “or the lyrics just seem better as spoken pieces. With Kingsize, for

example, it was spontaneous, it was written in the studio and I just never thought of

making a melody for those words.”Jenny’s lyrics can be very funny and witty,

while some have been shocked by her explicit dissection of sexuality and sexual behaviour. “I rarely get that response from people when they come see me play,” she counters. “One person left once, that’s all I know. It seems to be more of a media thing than an audience/ listener thing.”

All of Jenny's albums have cinematic qualities, so an obvious question is: for which director would she write a soundtrack? “I make music that’s a film in itself,” she says. “It could never be on in the background. Who would want all those lyrics, all those voices? I would destroy the film. But I’m watching a lot of Jess Franco movies these days, and they are so weird and wonderful and lo-fi and randomly put together I keep thinking I could do something with it. Also, half the dialogue is so bad it could probably just be taken out."

Jenny Hval plays The Lantern on Monday, November 9. For more info and to book tickets, visit www.colstonhall.org/shows/jenny-hval

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