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Travellers on The Urban Margins
Now that we are able to meet in person again, we have taken our exploration back to the streets. We are ‘travellers on the urban margins’ inspired by the drifts of the Situationists, we wander along our regular routes, trying […]
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Making a Manifesto
For this meeting I had set the group a question to think about: What would we like people to get from the experience of participating in a walk? This question was to uncover some of the motivations for why we […]
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Unfolding Ideas
This month I received the news that my proposal for a larger walking work has been commissioned through the Turnpike ACTIVATIONS programme, thanks to Arts Council England. This means that all the ideas the Turnpike Walkers and I have been […]
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Idea Sketching
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“There’s Comfort In Having A Shared Purpose.”
Walking People seem fed up at the moment. Unlike the previous lockdowns, this one doesn’t really have an end in sight. The days feel long but they’re flying by, restless nights lag with unused energy reserves from days spent inside. […]
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“I’ve Got Four Wheels Back On My Wagon!”
To set the scene – Our last meeting was just before Christmas, when there was still some optimism in the air, but it was waining – the pandemic at this stage is becoming an endurance, I don’t think anyone expected […]
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I’ve spent a lot of my life looking, but less of it looking around.
For our second meeting I had set the text ‘Looking Around: Where We Are, Where We Could Be’ by Lucy R. Lippard, published in Mapping The Terrain, New Genre Public Art, Edited by Susan Lacy. This is a book that […]
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Imagination is Key
We had our first online meeting at the end of October 2020. Some of the group members were familiar with using Zoom as a platform, whilst others professed their virginity! It will be interesting to see how successful we are […]