Walking has been an important part of my creative process for many years, with observations and findings from my walks often documented in my social media posts, like a visual journal. My awareness of just how important it is to my work, and acknowledgement of it within my work, is more recent. Working with UK-based artist, Andrew Howe on the MOSSES AND MARSHES project in 2019, I became aware of walking as a conscious act, a deliberate creative process and practice. This understanding grew through my involvement with the international walking creatives network, WALK. LISTEN. CREATE. Like the act of listening in my work, walking has taken its place in my creative processes, experiences and artmaking. In 2023, I became co-convenor of the Australian Walking Artists network with Sydney-based creative, Molly Wagner. The diversity of artforms and experiences within this national group further demonstrates how broad the application of walking is within creative practice.
Selection of walking-inspired art and experiences
đź“— Permissive path, chap book publication, 2023 (AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE)
đź“Ť An Aussie in Bloomsbury, viewpoint on Placecloud.io app, 2023
🚶🏼 Unherd! Walking the Land / listening with, creative walk across Whixall Moss, Shropshire UK, 2023
🚶🏼 Soundwalks of the Macquarie River (Dubbo), Tiger Bay Wetlands (Warren), Burrima Boardwalk (Macquarie Marshes) and Wingham Brush Nature Reserve (Wingham), public programming for various projects, 2022-23
đź“— New Year’s Day, prose published in Walking by Walk. Listen. Create, 2022 (republished in Permissive path)
🎧 I am Walking, spoken word soundscape with Andrew Howe, 2021
(re-edited and published in Permissive path)
I have been producing self-guided audio walks of public art, gardens, and wetlands for various local government and not-for-profit clients since 2015.
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