Hamish Fultonjourneys

Adrianna Woszczynska, 305575

Who is Hamish Fulton?Hamish Fulton is a British artist/photographer, usually referring to himself as a “walking artist”. Born in 1946, since 1972 he has based his artwork on the experience of walks. He translates his walks into a variety of media, from photography to illustrations and wall texts etc. Fulton argues that “walking is an artform in its own right” and argues for wider acknowledgement of walking art.

How does he manage to express his artwork?Fulton manages to express his artwork through visually recording his journeys as well as using words, photos and symbols. Fulton follows a no trace ethic, he doesn’t collect any materials on his walks and leaves everything untouched and as natural as it was before. His work is contained in major museums collections, such

as the Tate Britain and MoMA. Fulton stated that walking is an experience not an art medium, and that what he builds is an experience - not a sculpture.

“No talking for seven days, walking for seven days in a

wood february full moon cairngorms scotland 1988”

“Wind through the pines, song of the chaffinch.

“Margate 1234567 walking”

This kind of artwork would be aimed at older audience, since it consists only of texts and there are only two colours put in this piece. Fulton focused on the visual hierarchy, pretty much leading us to read what he wants us to read first. The font used is san-serif, therefore quite simplistic. In this piece Fulton refers to one of his walking experiences as he does in most of his pieces.

This particular piece consists only of a picture (which was took by Fulton on one of his walks) and texts manipulated by visual hierarchy. The text included in his work is almost like a poem written on an image, it refers in kind of a personal way to his experience which he wants to share with us. The audience of this image yet again would be adults/older people since to understand this kind of art you need to think it through a lot.

Like most of Fulton’s work, this is another piece that focuses on an image and text combination. This image presents Fulton’s walking group with everyone stood in a line. The numbers refer to the hours of silence performed during the walk. The tone of this photograph is quite cold and wintery, even though there

6 images Write the date and name

What were you doing at 8am

How did you get to college

A song you listened to on the way

Use wingding to find a symbol you saw on the way home

What exactly is in the picture

Something in the photo you don’t usually notice on your journey