Hamish Fulton, Mankingholes on the Pennine Way, 1973“A walk has a life of its own and does not need to be materialised into an artwork. An artwork may be purchased but a walk cannot be sold.”
~Hamish Fulton
~Hamish Fulton
Hamish Fulton (British, born 1946) is one of my favorite artists, all the more remarkable since I have never seen his work in person. Nor, for that matter, has anybody else. That’s because Fulton is a “Walking artist,” whose primary artworks are solitary walks he undertakes in (often) remote places all over the world. The work he exhibits and sells in galleries and museums, books and essays, are the abstracted photographic, diagrammatic and concrete poetry descriptions of his walks, which he is the first to admit are no subsitute for the initial experience, his true artwork.
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