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Earth Sense: Artists' Talk with Hamish Fulton and Masako Yasuki

Tuesday 2 September 2025 / 7:00pm
Earth Sense: Artists' Talk with Hamish Fulton and Masako Yasuki

Date
Tuesday 2 September 2025

Time
7.00pm

Venue
The Malt Lounge & Bar
The Prince Akatoki London
50 Great Cumberland Place
Marble Arch, London, W1H 7FD

Booking Details
Booking essential - £10.00 per person
The ticket includes a complimentary drink, redeemable at the bar.


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Join us for a special evening with artists Hamish Fulton and Masako Yasuki as they discuss their collaborative exhibition Earth Sense Part 2: Hamish Fulton | Masako Yasuki, opening at White Conduit Projects on Saturday 16 August. This intimate conversation will explore the artists’ shared yet distinct approaches to landscape, walking, and the sensory experience of place.

Fulton, known as a walking artist, brings decades of meditative journeys across terrains into visual form, while Yasuki’s work delves into the poetic and material resonance of natural environments. Together, they reflect on how movement, memory, and earth energies shape their practices.

This event offers a rare opportunity to hear from two artists whose works invite us to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with the rhythms of the land.

Since 1967, Hamish Fulton has been weaving an unseen network of journeys across the world through various conceptually driven walks. This network serves as a foundation for the artworks that ultimately adorn the gallery walls—bringing the experience of nature to life in a distinctly original way. The exhibition, specially conceived by the artist for White Conduit Projects, features pieces from different decades, allowing viewers to engage once more with Hamish Fulton’s captivating perspective.

Masako Yasuki consistently deals with “landscape” in her work and visits outdoor sites. For some time, she has been trying to create paintings that suspend the passage of time, human perception, and memory mechanisms, liberating them from their contexts. She paints with egg tempera and oil, using techniques rooted in Western art history, and combines these materials with Gofun (Paris white) and rock pigment, characteristic of the Oriental painting tradition. The Pine Tree Series directly confronts the Kano and Hasegawa School and establishes it as her own style.

Earth Sense Part 2: Hamish Fulton | Masako Yasuki runs from 17 August – 7 September at White Conduit Projects. 

Images: Left: Hamish Fulton, Walking The Walk, Hokkaido Japan, 1989, Right: Masako Yasuki, Unframed Landscape - Noto Peninsula / Walk / Scroll Painting (details)

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