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.

The seating is limited for this event. If your circumstances mean you are unable to stand for the duration of the event, please contact us in advance at events@japansociety.org.uk.

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. The conversation will be moderated by curator and writer Jonathan Watkins. 

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.

Jonathan Watkins is an independent curator and writer. Previously he was Director of Ikon (1999-2022), Curator of Serpentine Gallery (1995-1997) and Director of Chisenhale Gallery (1990-1995).
He has curated a number of large international exhibitions including the Biennale of Sydney (1998), Facts of Life: Contemporary Japanese Art (Hayward Gallery, London 2001), Quotidiana (Castello di Rivoli, Turin 1999, Tate Triennial (2003), Shanghai Biennale (2006), Sharjah Biennial (2007), Negotiations (Today Art Museum, Beijing 2010) and the Guangzhou Triennial (2012). He was on the curatorial team for Europarte (Venice Biennale, 1997), Milano Europa 2000, (Palazzo di Triennale, Milan 2000), and Riwaq (Palestinian Biennial 2007). He curated the Iraqi Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2013 and Floating World, Bahrain in 2017. In 2019 Watkins was the curator of Small Between the Stars, Large Against the Sky, the 9th Manif d’art Quebec City Biennial.
In 2012, under Jonathan Watkins’ directorship, Ikon Gallery presented a solo exhibition by Hamish Fulton, highlighting the artist’s unique approach to walking as an art form.

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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