MARGATE.- This is Hamish Fulton’s first one-person show in a UK public gallery since 2002. The exhibition brings together works from the early 1970s to the present, including a new film of a group walk in Margate commissioned by Turner Contemporary in the lead up to the opening of the gallery. Based in Kent, Hamish Fulton has made walking the basis of his practice for the past three decades, producing photography, text and sketches that evolve from the experience of solo and group walks in the landscape. Hamish Fulton’s art focuses on an engagement with the environment and the self through the experience of walking. He describes himself as a ‘walking artist’ resisting the limitations of the terms ‘land artist’, ‘performance artist’ or sculptor. In exhibitions he has often produced photography, text work and sketches that evolve from the experience of a particular walk. Walk embodies Fulton’s approach to walking as