Hamish Fulton communal walk for Remember Nature and more at Kestle Barton

Following our exhibition Gustav Metzger: Earth Minus Environment and related events in 2022, Kestle Barton is proud to be a partner organisation with Remember Nature 2025: Nationwide Day of Artist-Led Action (see more about this national project below).

Acclaimed artist, Hamish Fulton is our Lead Artist for the project, who will be organising a communal walk at Kestle Barton on the Day of Action on 4 November 2025. As Tate Britain introduced him in 2002, ‘Hamish Fulton (born 1946) has been labelled as a sculptor, photographer, Conceptual artist and Land artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a 'walking artist’. Since early 1970s he has only made artworks based on the experience of walks.

Hamish Fulton returns to Cornwall to Remember Nature on 4 November 2025

In 2013 Fulton celebrated 40 years of his commitment to the act of walking with over 300 walkers gathered in Penzance to create two new art works.

In 2018 we hosted his solo exhibition at Kestle Barton, Walking Between Walks (14 Jul - 2 Sep)

We are delighted that he is returning to lead a communal walk on the Day of Action and we urge everyone to register here and join us on the day for the walk and a full programme of activities.

Claire Hind, Clare Qualmann and Bram Thomas Arnold, will be contributing artists making work in relation to the themes and practices of ‘walking to remember nature’ on that day as well.

See more information on our website: www.kestlebarton.co.uk

Remember Nature 2025 is an ambitious new staging of the visionary art project initiated in 2015 by the celebrated artist Gustav Metzger (1926-2017), and curated by Andrea Gregson and Jo Joelson.

Remember Nature 2025 marks the 10-year anniversary in partnership with 15 regional arts partners across England, culminating in a nationwide Day of Action on 4 November 2025.

Remember Nature 2025 will bring people together through a programme of cultural and artistic public interventions, to ‘remember nature’ and act collectively to face the climate and nature crisis.Co-curators Gregson and Joelson are leading the project with 17 collaborating arts organisations who will each nominate a lead artist. The artists will be commissioned to coordinate the Day of Action, engaging the public through place-specific art that can offer a compelling and empowering way to focus on protecting nature and our planet in an ecologically destructive era.

The partner organisation are:Art Gene (Barrow-in-Furness), Baltic Contemporary(Gateshead), Castlefield Gallery (Manchester), De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea), FACT (Liverpool), Hatton Gallery (Newcastle), Hauser & Wirth (Somerset), Homotopia (Liverpool), Ikon (Birmingham), KARST (Plymouth), Kestle Barton and CAST(Cornwall), Kettles Yard (Cambridge), MIMA(Middlesborough), Serpentine Galleries (London), TateModern (London) and Turner Contemporary (Margate).

Remember Nature 2025 builds upon the initial Remember Nature in 2015 and Metzger’s call to action, which urged arts professionals and students from all disciplines “to make a stand against the ongoing erasure of species” and create new work to ‘remember nature’.

From coast to coast, city to town, contemporary arts organisations, artists, makers, and wider members of communities will develop artistic and public interventions in cultural venues and outdoor spaces, taking inspiration from Metzger’s works, manifestos and DIY aesthetic, to communicate why we need to ‘remember nature’, to ask wider audiences and members of the public to stop, pause in their daily routine, to slow down and think about the importance of nature and thus call to them to act and to adapt to the climate crisis.

The artistic acts and interventions on the Day of Action will be live streamed, recorded and shared via a new project website: https://remembernature.art/