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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 big path through a park with trees in the distance, a young child with red trousers is standing on the path looking towards us with his hands behind his back and there is a bench a bit further away to the right of the path. — Moving Roots – Sara El Sheekh

Two descending brushstrokes represent the slopes of a valley, where they meet in the centre of the image, the left slope overlaps the right. — Horizons are Important – Trevor H. Smith

An image of people picnicking on a golf course overlaid on an image of golfers. — Hollingbury Common – Outshift – Rachel Henson and Neil Manuell

A background of a bookshelf in front of which is a woman’s face with a clock face superimposed. — Dreaming of an Endless Landscape – Kate Morton

Two similar images: A buggy with a baby inside, next to an image of a child in the same place as the original photo. — Maternity Leaves – Lizzie Philps

This is mixed media collage with a poem. The poem reads 'In a bare landscape, Hard ground and dust, Following a public path, Colonised by farmers, Walking alone, Easter is coming' — SLQS – Find.ers.Keep.ers

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

Project Blog

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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