HAMISH FULTON - Galerie van der Mieden

GALERIE VAN DER MIEDEN 

HAMISH FULTON 

March 16 – May 5, 2012 

Galerie van der Mieden, Pourbusstraat 15, B-2000 Antwerp, t. +32 3 231 77 42, info@vandermieden.com, www.vandermieden.com 

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Hamish Fulton characterises himself as a ‘walking artist’. Fulton’s time as a student at St Martin’s 

College of Art in London (1966-68) and his journeys in South Dakota and Montana in 1969, 

encouraged him to think that art could be ‘how you view life’, and not tied necessarily to the production 

of objects. He began to make short walks, and then to make photographic works about the experience 

of walking. At this time, and subsequently, his practice was influenced by an unusually broad set of 

interests including the subject of the environment and the culture of American Indians. In 1973, having 

walked 1,022 miles in 47 days from Duncansby Head (near John O’Groats) to Lands End, Fulton 

decided to ‘only make art resulting from the experience of individual walks.’ Since then the act of 

walking has remained central to Fulton’s practice. He has stated ‘If I do not walk, I cannot make a work 

of art’ and has summed up this way of thinking in the simple statement of intent: ‘no walk, no work’. 

Although Fulton experiences the walk itself, the texts and photographs he presents in exhibitions and 

books allow us to engage with his experience. He says: “My art has to do with specific places and 

particular occurrences which are not present in the gallery, and the information I give is minimal. My 

hope is that a separate image will be formed in the observer’s mind, based on that which my work 

imparts.” Fulton doesn’t seek to distort the landscape: he only seeks to walk across it. The visible part 

of his work relies on artefacts he creates after the hike: wall paintings, pictures, drawings or gouaches, 

that all testifies of his physical experience. Every image that he makes includes some geographic or 

chronologic indications. His observations have something in common with ‘explorers’ or ‘scientists’ 

stories, but the posture that he embraces since the beginning is the one of an assumed artist that 

makes him one of the pillars of conceptual art (with Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, On kawara, Jan 

Dibbets or Richard Long). His largest exhibition to date, “Walking Journey”, was held in Tate Britain in 

2002. 


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Pourbusstraat March 14, 2012 

pencil on wall 

dimensions variable 


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Disapearing Lake, 1999 

digital print, ed. 50 

67 x 62,5 cm (framed) 

full text: A 21 day cross country walking journey guided and resupplied in the wrangell Saint Elias 

region of Alaska late summer 1999 / Disappearing lake 

31 Walks, 1971-2010 



full text: Walking, coast to coast, coast to river, river to coast, 

river to river / A walked line unlike a drawn line can never be 

erased / Walking into the distance beyond imagination / 31 

Walks 1971 - 2010 

Galerie van der Mieden, Pourbusstraat 15, B-2000 Antwerp, t. +32 3 231 77 42, info@vandermieden.com, www.vandermieden.com


Sea Level, 2002 

vinyl text, ed. unique 


Untitled (Mont Blanc), 2009 

wood, paint, nails, ed. unique 

9,5 x 17 cm 

full text: A Guided Walk to the Summit of Mont Blanc, 26 July 2009, France, Italy 


Earthworks and Beyond, Denali, 2004 




14 Pieces of Wood, Iceland, 2008 


41 x 148 cm 

full text: 14 Pieces of Wood for: 14 Days Walking, 14 Nights 

camping round Mÿrdalsjökull Icecap, Southern Iceland, 

June, July, 2005 

Lobuche East, 2008 

b&w photograph, ed. unique 

62 x 46 cm (framed) 

full text: Lobuche East, Guided and sherpa assited climbs 

of three small mountains Pokalde, Imja Tse, Lobuche East, 

Nepal Post Monsoon 2008 


A 31 Day Road Walking Journey from the River Rhone 

at Valance to the River Danube at Vienna, 1994 


20,5 x 46,5 cm (framed) 

full text: A 31 day road walking journey from the river Rhone at Valance to the river Danube at Vienna, 

starting on the day of the September full moon, ending on the night of the October full Moon 

1994, France Switzerland Italy Austria Germany Austria 

The second full moon of May Mount 

Fuji, 1988 

painting, printed text, ed. unique 

35,2 x 24,7 cm (framed) 

full text: The second full moon of May Mount Fuji / A 19 day 

coast to coast road walking journey Tomaya Bay Ontake 

summit Fuji Summit Suruga Bay Honshu Japan 1988 


Sunrise Shadow, 1990 



full text: Sunrise Shadow / A walk to the summit of PopoCatepetl Mexico 

January 1990 one night bivouac on the crater rim 

A one night bivouac on the summit rim of Pico 

de Orizaba Mexico, 1979 


35,8 x 51,3 cm 

full text: A One Night Bivouac on the Summit Rim of Pico de Orizaba, Mexico 1979 


Kailash Kora, 2007 

painting, ed. unique 

26,5 x 35 ,5 cm (framed) 

full text: Kailash Kora, Walking one circuit of the pelgrimage route round Mounta Kailish, Tibet 5+6 

October 2007. Cold wind and sleet over the 5668 metre Drolma Pass following in the energy of a 

Buddhist nun 

The Precious Mountain, 2011 



full text: The Precious Mountain, Kailash Kora walking one circuit of the pilgrimage route round 

Mount Kailash from Darchen to Darchen on the Foundations of a new Chinese motor road being 

built on the ancient foothpath, Tibet 23 24 October 2011 


Death Zone, 2000 




Changing Weather, 2000 


34,5 x 127,5 cm (framed) 

full text: Changing Weather - On the road from Tingri - A guided and sherpa assisted climb to the 

summit plateau of Cho Oyu at 8175 metres via the classic route wihout supplementary oxygen 

Tibet Autumn 2000 

Duchamps, Messner, Habeler, Mallory, Hillary, 

Tenzing, Everest, 2009 

pencil on paper, ed. unique 

39,5 x 39,5 cm (framed) 

full text: Duchamps, Messner, Habeler, Mallory, Hillary, Tenzing Everest / A guided and sherpa 

assisted climb of Mount Everest / Using bottled oxygen reaching the 8850 Metre Summit / On the 

morning of 19 May 2009 49th day of the expedition / Via Nepal and the South Easth Ridge 


Khumbu Glacier, 2009 

b&w photograph, ed. unique 

39,5 x 45,5 cm (framed) 

full text: Khumbu Glacier, A guided and sherpa assited climb of Mount Everest using botled oxygen 

reaching the 8850 metre summit, 19 May 2009 Nepal 

Outline of the Cooking Pot, 2008 

pencil on paper, ed. unique 

32,5 x 33 cm (framed) 

full text: Outline of the Cooking Pot / A fourteen 

day circular walk, fourteen nights camping round 

Mÿrdalsjökull Southern, Iceland June July 2008. 


A 28 Walking Expedition in Nepal, 2011 



full text: A 28 day walking expedition in Nepal from Jomson in Mustang beside the Kali Gandaki 

River to Potalgaon in Dolpo, arriving at Simikot for the October full moon 2011, continuing to Hilsa 

and a footbridge across the Karnali River at the border with Tibet. 

A walk to the top of Mulhagen 

Sierra Nevada, Spain, 1984 


12 x 10 cm 

full text: A walk to the top of Mulhagen Sierra 

Nevada, Spain, 1984 


A sheperd walking with his sheep and 

dogs, 2005 



full text: A sheperd walking with his sheep and dogs / A 2498 

kilometer walking journey on Spain starting from the Atlantic coast 

at Finisterre Dia de la Hispanidad 12 October 2005 ending by the 

banks of the Rio Tajo in Toledo 

Milestones, 2005 



A 16 day walking journey from a train at the port of Holyhead in 

Wales to a train at the port of Dover in England October 2010 / 

milestones 


Chomolungma, 2009 



full text: Chomolungma / China has banned displaying the Tibetan national flag in Tibet / This flag was carried to the summit on the Nepal Tibet 

border / A guided and sherpa assisted climb of Mount Everest using bottled oxygen, reaching the 8850 metre summit on the morning of 19 May 

2009, 49th day of the expedition via Nepal and the Southeast route 

Chomolungma, 2009 


56,5 x 62,5 cm (framed) 

full text: Mount Everest summit, Buddha wrapped in Khata scarves and prayer flags / Chomolungma / A guided and sherpa assisted climb of 

Mount Everest, using bottled oxygen reaching the 8850 Metre Summit on the morning of 19 May 2009, 49th day of the expedition via Nepal and 

the Southeast route

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