Hamish Fulton

born 1946 in London, UK
lives and works in Canterbury / Kent, UK

"My artform is the short journey, made by walking in the landscape"
1969: Walks made in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the United States, Canada, Peru, Nepal, India, Australia, Japan, Lapland, Mexico, Iceland, Germany, Spain and Portugal.
"The physical involvement from walking creates a receptiveness to the landscape. I walk on the land to be woven into nature. [...] A walk has a life of its own and does not need to be made into a work of art. [...] The artwork cannot re-present the experience of a walk. The flow of influences should be from nature to me, not from me to nature..."

Quoted from catalogue Thirty one Horizons, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München 1995 p. 8-10.

Sample Work
 

Alps Horizon... 1989 Montes de Toledo... 1990 Wall painting 218 x 1770 cm Installation view, Galerie Tanit, Cologne 1991 < Click on Image for larger view

Sleep 1990 Wall painting 400 x 600 cm Installation view, Galerie Tanit, Cologne 1991 < Click on Image for larger view