Richard Wentworth was born in 1947 in Samoa. He attended Hornsey College of Art from 1965 and worked with Henry Moore as an assistant in 1967. He was awarded an MA in 1970 from the Royal College of Art and went on to become one of the most influential teachers in British art over past two decades at Goldsmith's College, University of London, where he taught from 1971 to 1987. He was appointed by the prestigious German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD) to work in Berlin from 1993 to 1994, and in 2002 was made Master of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. He was one of the selected artists in the London section of the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennial and in 1999 curated 'Thinking Aloud', one of the most creative contemporary exhibition projects staged in the past five years and which was seen in Cambridge, London and Manchester. He now lives in London.

His works have been shown in institutions such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Hayward Gallery, London; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; and the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris. The book, prepared by Herman Lelie, one of the leading art book designers in the world, includes text by well-known art critic Guy Brett and artist/photographer Laura Padgett. A distinctive voice in art criticism since the 1960s, Guy Brett has followed an independent path in mapping and interpreting contemporary art. Always informed by a trans-national perspective and positioning himself as an open-minded observer rather than a theorist, he sees art as a liberating energy within contemporary life and thought.