Tent doors facing the sunrise each day, n.a.

Photography

Mass: 50 x 75 cm

Hamish Fulton describes himself as a "walking artist". His working technique involves days of lonely marches through nature. He then transforms the physical and emotional experiences he experiences into works of art. He is never concerned with representing nature: "Nature is nature, and my art is my art," is Fulton's credo. Fir trees are a recurring theme in his work; he named one of his works "Wind through the Pines", which was purchased by the Tate Modern.

Hamish Fulton was born in 1946 in London, Great Britain, where he studied sculpture at Central Saints Martins College of Art and Design from 1966 to 1968 and at the Royal College of Art from 1968 to 1969. With his conceptual "Land Art", Fulton sees himself in the British tradition of landscape painting, but with new means and forms of expression. Fulton was a multiple participant in the Documenta in Kassel, his works are shown internationally in galleries and museums, for example in the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago or the MUMOK in Vienna.