Hamish Fulton (1946 – )
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TASMANIA II 1979 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P3860/2 © The Artist
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SEVEN 7 DAY WALKS (SEVEN WALKS, MARCH 1985, JUNE 1986, FEBRUARY 1988, SEPTEMBER 1988, SEPTEMBER 1990, MARCH 1991, APPRIL 1991) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6378 © Hamish Fulton. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London
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WHITEHILL WOOD 1972 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P3766 © The Artist
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TASMANIA I 1979 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P3860/1 © The Artist
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SEVEN DAYS WALKING & SEVEN NIGHTS CAMPING IN A WOOD IN SCOTLAND (ONE WALK, SEPTEMBER 1985) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6379 © copyright The Artist
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THE CROW SPEAKS (TWO WALKS SUMMER 1991 AND JUNE 1986) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6377 © copyright The Artist
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WORLD WITHIN A WORLD HORIZON TO HORIZON 3 1973 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P2063
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WIND THROUGH THE PINES (TWO WALKS MARCH 1985 AND APRIL 1991) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6382
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NIGHT LIFE (ONE WALK MARCH 1991) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6375 © copyright The Artist
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SONG PATH (TWO WALKS JANUARY 1992 AND JANUARY 1993) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6383
Hamish Fulton was born in London and studied at St Martin’s School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, in London. Both during, and just after, his time at St Martin’s, Fulton made several visits to the USA, travelling extensively, and began there to be interested in presenting landscape as sculpture, with the aid of photography. Unlike his contemporary Richard Long, Fulton leaves no formal mark or intervention on the land through which he travels nor does he exhibit works of art other than those captioned photographs, or more recently prints, which evoke his experience of the journey. Initially only one work represented each journey, with such extreme economy Fulton made clear that his photographs do not document the landscape nor record the duration, but rather aim to condense his experiences, functioning like the roadside cairns they sometimes record, as signs or mementoes of a human act. The communicative power comes from the resonant texts which accompany Fulton’s work; the texts are not an attempt to give a complete description: some give only selected objective details of place, time, distance; others have more subjective details of the artist’s state of mind. Of his work Fulton wrote in 1981: "I do not make sculpture in the landscape involving permanent alterations and changes to the earth’s surface, as my intention more and more is to be influenced by nature, and nature (the natural environment) is not man-made. My art is a passive protest against urban societies that alienate people from the world of nature."
Photography as Medium, The British Council 1981
Glossary
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Contemporary
Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.
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Landscape
Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of the landscape differed: the French tried to evoke the classical landscape of ancient Greece and Rome in a highly stylised and artificial manner; the Dutch tried to paint the surrounding fields, woods and plains in a more realistic way. As a genre, landscape grew increasing popular, and by the 19th Century had moved away from a classical rendition to a more realistic view of the natural world. Two of the greatest British landscape artists of that time were John Constable and JMW Turner, whose works can be seen in the Tate collection (www.tate.org.uk). There can be no doubt that the evolution of landscape painting played a decisive role in the development of Modernism, culminating in the work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists . Since then its demise has often been predicted and with the rise of abstraction, landscape painting was thought to have degenerated into an amateur pursuit. However, landscape persisted in some form into high abstraction, and has been a recurrent a theme in most of the significant tendencies of the 20th Century. Now manifest in many media, landscape no longer addresses solely the depiction of topography, but encompasses issues of social, environmental and political concern.
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Sculpture
A three-dimensional work of art. Such works may be carved, modelled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures can also be described as assemblage, in the round, relief, and made in a huge variety of media. Contemporary practice also includes live elements, as in Gilbert & George 'Living Sculpture' as well as broadcast work, radio or sound sculpture.
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- Slovakia, Bratislava, Mirbachov Palace
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/contemporary-art-from-the-british-council-collection-1996">Contemporary art from the British Council Collection- Belgium, Brussels, Western European Union
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/photography-as-medium-1980">PHOTOGRAPHY AS MEDIUM- Spain, Barcelona, Sala Arcs De Caixa De Barcelona
- Spain, Lleida, Antic Hospital De Santa Maria
- Spain, Madrid, Circulo De Bellas Artes
- Spain, Granada, Saldes De Exposiciones, Universidad De Granada
- Denmark, Denmark
- Yugoslavia, Zagreb, Galerije Grada
- Poland, Warsaw, Warsaw
- Netherlands, Rotterdam, British Council Office - Rotterdam
- Norway, Oslo, Oslo
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/aspects-of-landscape-recent-work-by-ten-british-artists-1977">ASPECTS OF LANDSCAPE RECENT WORK BY TEN BRITISH ARTISTS- Germany, Weimar, Kunstammlungen
- Turkey, Turkey
- Belgium, Belgium
- France, St Etienne, Musee D'art Moderne
- France, Calais, Musee Des Beaux-Arts et de La Dentelle
- France, Paris, Centre Culturel Du Marais
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/british-artists-prints-1972-1977-1977">BRITISH ARTISTS' PRINTS 1972-1977- Morocco, Morocco
- Canada, Canada
- Iraq, Iraq
- Egypt, Cairo, Cairo
- United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates
- Qatar, Doha, Doha
- Spain, Zamora, Casa De La Cultura
- Jordan, Jordan
- Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
- South Africa, South Africa
- Finland, Finland
- Finland, Helsinki, Helsinki
- France, France
- Greece, Athens, Athens
- Italy, Italy
- Spain, Spain
- Norway, Frederikstad