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Exhibitions — 2019
Hamish Fulton
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
22 November – 8 February 2020
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Hamish Fulton:
A Decision To Choose Only Walking
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Parafin is delighted to announce its first exhibition with the iconic British walking artist Hamish Fulton. The exhibition takes as its starting point the important walk the artist made over 47 days in 1973 from Duncansby Head to Land’s End – here presented as a large-scale wall text. After this major walk Fulton made the radical decision to ‘only make art resulting from the experience of individual walks’. Since then Fulton has rigorously maintained this focus, using walking as his medium and stating ‘If I don’t walk, I can’t make art’. Although only Fulton experiences his solitary walks directly, the works he presents in exhibitions and books allow us to engage with them.
Fulton has consistently argued that walking can be considered an important artform in its own right, and has pushed for wider recognition of the aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of walking as art. Through his work he highlights not only the artistic possibilities of walking but its ongoing history and importance as a means of transport, a way of connecting communities and a spiritual tool. It is also a traditional means of protest and Fulton has made work that is vocal in its support of environmental issues as well as the plight of Australian Aborigines, Native American Indians and the people of Tibet.
The exhibition includes works made between 1973 and now and encompasses the range of media Fulton uses to communicate his experiences, including printed texts, photographs, wall paintings and what he calls ‘walk texts on wood’. Using humble materials and adopting the wilderness ethos of ‘leave no trace’, Fulton’s work attempts an alignment with nature without exploiting or altering it. Fulton’s work, which directly addresses our relationship with nature, questions of environmental jeopardy and important causes such as the Chinese occupation of Tibet, has become more and more vital with every passing year.
Selected Works
Hamish Fulton
World Within A World, Duncansby Head to Lands End, Scotland Wales England, 1973
1973
Wall text
Dimensions variable
PFN02109
Hamish Fulton
Cho Oyu, Tibet, 2000
2000
Wall text
Dimensions variable
PFN02110
Hamish Fulton
Revisiting The Boulders, Jotunheimen, Norway, 2018
2018
Wall text
Dimensions variable
PFN02111
Hamish Fulton
Valais Mountains, Switzerland 1995 / Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland 2015
1995-2015
Framed archival inkjet print
72 × 65 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02137
Hamish Fulton
Touching Boulders by Hand, Wyoming, 2017
2017
Framed archival inkjet print
65 × 79 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02138
Hamish Fulton
Prayer Boulder, Nepal, 2009
2009
Framed photograph and text
111 × 135 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02140
Hamish Fulton
Footpath, Iceland, 2008
2008
Framed photograph and text
89 × 71 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02141
Hamish Fulton
Boulder, Iceland, 2008
2008
Framed photograph with text
73 × 85 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02142
Hamish Fulton
Footpath, Cairngorms, Scotland, 2014
2014
Framed archival inkjet print
74 × 56 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02143
Hamish Fulton
Tibetan Prayer Flags Cover The Drolma Stone, Tibet, 2011
2011
Framed archival inkjet print
36 × 52 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02144
Hamish Fulton
A View From The Highest Point in North America/South America, 2003/2004
2003-04
Framed archival inkjet print
62.5 × 50 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02146
Hamish Fulton
Chomolungma (The Tibetan National Flag), Nepal, 2009
2009
Framed archival inkjet print
59.5 × 75 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02147
Hamish Fulton
he Precious Mountain, Tibet, 2011
2011
Framed archival inkjet print
41 × 51 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02148
Hamish Fulton
14 One Day Walks, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1989
1989
Walk text. Ink stamps on paper
37 × 29.6 cm framed
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN11
Hamish Fulton
Milestones, Wales & England, 2010
2010
Framed archival inkjet print
58 × 45 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02152
Hamish Fulton
Boulder, Cairngorms, Scotland, 2016
2016
Framed archival inkjet print
60 × 50 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02153
Hamish Fulton
Respect The Mountain, Switzerland, 1995
1995
Framed archival inkjet print
34 × 45 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02154
Hamish Fulton
Tree Boulder, Cairngorms, Scotland, 2016
2016
Framed archival inkjet print
62 × 83 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02155
Hamish Fulton
A Tree At Its Birthplace A Boulder At Its Resting Place, Cairngorms, Scotland, 2017
2017
Framed archival inkjet print
54.5 × 70 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02156
Hamish Fulton
ouching Boulders By Hand, Cairngorms, Scotland, 2013
2013
Framed archival inkjet print
57 × 70 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02157
Hamish Fulton
Antlers On The Track, Kent, England, 1970 & 1971
1970-71
Photographs and text
25.5 × 44 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02158
Hamish Fulton
A 2838 Kilometre Coast To Coast Walking Journey, Europe, 2002
2002
Pencil text and stamps on paper
28 × 36.5 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02159
Hamish Fulton
Tea Ring, Tibet, 2007
2007
Tea ring and pencil text
22 × 22 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02160
Hamish Fulton
Seven Small Engadin Mountains, Switzerland, 2007
2007
Painting and text on paper
33 × 42 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02162
Hamish Fulton
Untitled (Counting 588 Coloured Dots), Planet Earth, 2010
2010
Paint and text on paper
36 × 41.5 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02164
Hamish Fulton
14 One Day Walks, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1989
1989
Walk text. Ink stamps on paper
37 × 29.6 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN0
Hamish Fulton (born London, 1946) is a walking artist. Fulton first came to international attention in the late 1960s and early 1970s as one of a key generation of British artists, including Richard Long, Gilbert & George, Bruce McLean, Keith Arnatt and Art + Language, who were exploring new forms of art.
He was included in important early exhibitions of Conceptual Art, including ‘Konzeption – Conception’, Staadtisches Museum, Leverkusen (1969), ‘Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art’, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin (1970), ‘Information’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970), Documenta V, Kassel (1972) and ‘The New Art’, Hayward Gallery, London (1972). Since then Fulton has exhibited extensively around the world. Major retrospectives have been presented at the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1985), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1985), Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo (1990), National Galley of Canada, Ottowa (1990), Serpentine Gallery, London (1991), IVAM, Valencia (1992) and Tate Britain (2002). Notable recent group exhibitions include ‘Ends of the Earth’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Haus der Kunst Munich (2012) and ‘Excitement’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016). Recent solo exhibitions include Turner Contemporary, Margate (2012), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2012) and Bombas Gens, Valencia (2018).
His work is held in many major museum collections including Tate, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Kunstmuseum, Basel and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.