Hamish Fulton

Hamish Fulton’s work is made from walking journeys and documenting his experiences through journals and notes. These private experiences that are then made public, develop potential for the viewer to understand a wider meaning of the journey through the landscape.

 It primarily consists of walking through the countryside all over the world, sometimes in places far away from industrial centres eg, Nepal, India, Bolivia, Peru and Alaska.

The physical action of actually walking thought these locations makes Fulton experience the nature first hand, there and then in that moment, and got himself, not through the medium of someone else.

Because he has been photographing since the early 70’s, his personal of perceptions of nature and the countryside, which allows the public to experience this with him.

His thoughts, observations and emotions which he notes down in journals and notebook which combines his work since the 80’s, which help document his images because they reflect his experiences of his walks in a poetic way.

This appeals to the reader’s imagination and allows us to experience what cannot be captured or expressed visually.

His work combines colour and black and white, in a way quite unique because when pre-visualising your work, you decide what format would work best, but he combines the two to get the best from him images and making no sacrifices, and also because every location is different and the weather changes and emotions to, so he decides on what would benefit and make the most impact.

He suggests, that his art comprises ‘facts of the walker [ie himself] and fictions for everyone else’ “

“For us, the impact of Fulton’s art will derive in part form by our own individual responses to landscape and to nature, perceptions that are inevitably mediated by our contact with a body of art and literature from out cultural past.”  Page 15 (Book 1)

Fulton, H., Tufnell, B., Wilson, A., Mckibben, B., & Scott, D. (2002). Hamish Fulton: walking journey. London, Tate Pub.

Fulton, H. (1998). Hamish Fulton: walking artist. London, Annely Juda Fine Art.