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walking, wellbeing and community during COVID-19

The Walkbook: Recipes for walking & wellbeing

The image shows a number of artists' works from our #WalkCreate Gallery set in a hashtag design — #WalkCreate Report

#WalkCreate Gathering

Artist Areej Kaoud appears twice on either side of the image. On the left she looks longingly over her right shoulder. On the right she looks towards her other image wearing a mask. In between the two figures a yellow sign reads "Be socially safe, Please keep 2m apart". — #WalkCreate Commissions Announcement

#WalkCreate Gallery Online Launch – Wednesday 3 November 2021

#WalkCreate Gallery

A female figure sits in the middle of the image next to a grey plastic peat gully dam. She is wearing orange walking boots, black trousers, a sky blue top, a turquoise jacket and a red woolly hat. She is surrounded by brown, green and orange vegetation. The sky is blue in the distant horizon. — Walking and Sleeping with a 16 mm camera and walking alongside the Sphagnum Moss Planters, November 2020 to 31 March 2021 – Alison Lloyd

The image depicts a chalk game marked on a pavement. The text reads 'Spin Along' — Microclimates – Ceri Morgan

The image is a still from the film with white text overlayed onto images of the walk. The text reads “I search for you amongst the stones” — Shadows and Substance – Janette Kerr

Hundreds of colourful silk pennants stretching into the distance, held by poles stuck in a yellow sand beach — Beach of Dreams – Ali Pretty with Kinetika

We wanted a combination of photographic material from the actual plotted points on the route mixed with text, textures and manipulations that would surface some of the ideas running though the project – site, place, walking, time, the cosmos, the effects of the lockdown – and also the contingency of things we find out along the way. So, this might mean text sitting directly on an image as a caption, a slogan, a provocation, a reflection, a lyric; it might also mean the addition of a spectral object or shape to mark the co-ordinates on our map; it could also mean the mirroring, cloning or copying of certain details in the photograph, suggesting possibilities of other worlds, realities or narratives: ‘what if’s’. — Astronomical – Claire Hind & Gary Winters

A series of Jo Delafons’s ‘walk boxes’ presented as an installation. Each is a mixed media abstract interpretation of a walk taken on the South Downs by the artist during Lockdown. Their delicate construction emphasises our fragile relationship with nature and our environment, The box form evokes the rigid confines and restrictions of lockdown in contrast to the precious freedom of the walk evoked inside. Each box can be turned over by hand. — Lockdown Walk Boxes – Jo Delafons

Project News

Pandemic and Beyond Podcast

a poster advertising the Living Streets Walking Summit — News

Upcoming Talks

a collage of images representing the sea, artist hands, and the words 'Intertidal projective verse' — Artist Commissions

Artist Commission – Elspeth Penfold and CITiZAN (MoLA)

Two images on top of the other, both feature one person looking at camera and one looking away, outside — News

The Walking Library – Dee Heddon and Misha Myers speak to CILIPS

Three people in an online zoom call — News

Walk Create in Conversation with A Bit Lit

a yellow flowering bush next to a brick wall, which has "Yellow Corydalis" written on it in chalk, with an arrow pointing to the shrub — News

Call for Papers: Walking Well? Stepping Through and Beyond the Pandemic

Walking Publics/Walking Arts is a COVID-19 Rapid Response project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council exploring the potential of the arts to sustain, encourage and more equitably support walking during and recovering from a pandemic.

We are keen to find out how people have experienced walking during COVID-19 and how artists have used walking in their creative practice.

About the project

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The image shows members of the group looking out towards the North Sea. Someone in a high vis jacket takes a photo on their phone. A little boy wears a red puffer jacket. — Daffodils, Tea and Sea in the North East (of England) – Harry Wilson

A series of Jo Delafons’s ‘walk boxes’ presented as an installation. Each is a mixed media abstract interpretation of a walk taken on the South Downs by the artist during Lockdown. Their delicate construction emphasises our fragile relationship with nature and our environment, The box form evokes the rigid confines and restrictions of lockdown in contrast to the precious freedom of the walk evoked inside. Each box can be turned over by hand. — Responding to the #WalkCreate Gallery – Stephanie Springgay

Walking in the Media: A Newfound Appreciation – Mati Marek

The Image shows rain drops in a body of water — A Rain Walk Review – Sam Lange

rocks and seaweed cover a beach — Walking Conversations in Sheffield and Robin Hood’s Bay – Maxwell Ayamba and Maggie O’Neill

three towers of stacked rocks against the backdrop of the sea — Walking on Lindisfarne: tuning into the sonic environment – Maggie O’Neill

I found my city through walking – Morag Rose

The image shows a 3 year old girl in a blue coat chalking on the pavement. Two chalk snakes have been drawn. — Finding the Connection – Harry Wilson

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