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walking, wellbeing and community during COVID-19

The image shows young girl searching for painted stones in a wooded area. — Walking Publics

Walking Arts

A woman with a pram, standing in the middle of an empty road, with tall glass, concrete and stone buildings all around. — Artist Commissions

#WalkCreate Gallery

20/52 An easel holding a picture of two boys and a dog in pyjamas in front of a fire. Overlaid on the picture is text reading: A Walk Around the Block / I get my inspiration from the streets / Merrie England / Solitary Walkers / recasting Romantic walking practices / 'to the agitation and unrest of our times' / a movement into an unknowable future / I'm more of a street fighter than a Roman scholar. — 52 Scores, Score 20 – Blake Morris

The image depicts a poem written in black pen on a stone pebble. The poem reads ‘A butterfly chases a butterfly out to sea’. — Pebble Poems – Jim Young

Front cover of the artist book Frankwell in View — Frankwell in View – Andrew Howe

The viewer is indoors, looking out through a window, towards a lush, green garden. The words GOING IN GOING OUT are layered over the image in white, and intersect like answers in a crossword. — GOING OUT | GOING IN & GOING IN | GOING OUT – Laura Fisher, with music by Sonia Killmann

A Filipina migrant domestic worker is shouting passionately into a megaphone at a protest — Home Makers – Ella Parry-Davies

The image is of a street lined with cars, it is the street the creator of Running Shoes commonly felt unsafe walking down on her way home from work. The image is in black and white and has white writing at the bottom that reads “Running Shoes: first person accounts of the fear of walking alone as a woman” — Running Shoes – Zarina Dolan

Project News

Dee and Claire walking on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. White sands, turquoise seas and clear blue skies. — News

Ramblings with Clare Balding

A white woman with blonde hair looks into the camera — News

New Event – Hear from Dee

a girl and her mum in the foreground look at a drawing while another woman walks a dog in the background — News

News Round Up – June 2021

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

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

Itching to Walk – Dee Heddon

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