Title: Slioch Hilltop Cairn/Circling Buzzards.1980. Medium:2 photographs, black and white, on paper and transfer lettering. Image: 1181 x 870 mm.
Title: Eroded Rock Outline Beinn Mheadhoin. From Ten Toes towards the Rainbow: Date: 1988, 1991.Medium: Screenprint on paper. Dimensions: Image: 632 x 911 mm
Title: The Pilgrim’s Way. Date: 1971. Medium: Photograph, black and white, on paper with dry transfer print mounted onto board. Dimensions: Image: 150 x 225 mm. support: 570 x 625 mm
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/hamish-fulton-1133
Hamish Fulton: work resulted from walks in landscape. His work represented his walks through a combination of words and photographs. His reaction to a walk depended on the length of the walk and the number of photos taken. His walks were an essential part of his work. There wasn’t any work created if there was no walk. Hamish described how the physicality of walking helps evoke a state of mind and a relationship to the landscape. Fulton believes that there is very strong correlation between the state of mind and walking performance. During his walks he tries to empty his mind, enhancing meditative quality of walking.
I like his work because it shows a different response to a natural setting, his use of words, repeating and photography. Although his work looks fairly simple, there is a lot more to it when you look into it, it captures the simplicity of the natural world, what one tries to achieve in this setting. His work also showed me the importance of the process of the physical aspect of being in a natural landscape, the walking/biking/running is all part of the process that I should from now on document more of.
