The Marŝarto25 shortlist reflected a wide and compelling field of walking practices, demonstrating how walking continues to operate as a critical, poetic, and socially embedded artistic method. Across a range of geographies, durations, and intentions, the shortlisted works shared an understanding of walking as a way of thinking with the world: attentive to landscape, community,

Penny Walker, 2026 story writer-in-residence, who invites you discover where a river might flow River Pant, Essex.  2 miles 13th January 2026  Seven of us and a dog walked down the track, watching for the flow and rise of water under our boots.  We had detailed LIDAR maps from official agencies of the river’s current

Joe Richardson explores how walking and drawing activate shifts between roles and selves in Drawing Walks and Intervals as Activation Devices.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, Joe reflects on the work. Moving between roles Many contemporary artists will relate to feeling that they are constantly required to move between different roles and identities, switching headspaces,

Soda Paapi created an ambient documentary featuring Toronto, a ‘walking video’ called 40 Nights in Toronto, where he realised that, sometimes, instead of thinking we need to escape, all we need is a different perspective.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he is interviewed about the work. In April 2024, Soda Paapi flew from Berlin to

Christopher Kaczmarek hosted a walkshop at WAC25 called Drawing Cartographies of Perception, exploring the personal and subjective nature of navigation and cartography and the diverse ways people perceive and move through space.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. A map is never a place. It is a translation, an abstraction,

It’s been an absolute joy to explore this year’s submissions for the Sound Walk September Awards. Speaking on behalf of the Grand Jury, it wasn’t easy to pick which pieces stood out just a tad more in the field that was this year’s shortlist. But, using cold, hard, mathematics, the numbers didn’t lie, and were

Carlos ‘Luca’ Idrobo produced Love Letters to Walking Art and Science, a cumulative piece that honours pivotal artistic and scientific works focused on walking as both motif and practice, combining photography, drawing, light-drawings, performance, and land art.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. Walking a line has been standard practice

Claudia Zeiske walked From Mountain to Sea, a 220km walk through Aberdeenshire, and a COVID-19 commemoration walk, marked by benches, music, an embroidered tablecloth, illustrated map, and film.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. Over two years, I walked from mountain to sea forth and back across Aberdeenshire in the

Laura Reeder walked with local youth and neighbors over two underused lawns in the City of Syracuse, NY. The walks turned undervalued public fields into living drawings, exploring how walking in public space connects ecology, safety, and community.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. My year as resident artist with

Dario Laganà went on a 1000 km walk in Norway, and produced the short film Like a Fern Between Rocks, documenting this solitary, nomadic experience. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Marŝarto Awards 2025.  Dario earlier wrote about his experience in A loud solitude, and goes deeper into his experience, below. All of my

Brona Martin created MOSS – Mapping Otherworldly Soundscapes, an investigation and celebration of sound and an exploration of the relations between the natural and cultural worlds of Moss, Norway. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Brona discusses the piece. Often our first introduction to a new environment is experienced through

Galen Koch, with Celia Morton and Annika Ross, created The First Coast’s Stonington Soundwalk, taking the listener on a walk past old sardine factories and music halls, neighborhoods and town piers, featuring the stories of local residents, both past and present. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Galen reflects on

Amble Skuze created Normalised Interfacing, a wheelchair sound walk, which maps the experiences and thoughts of a wheelchair user in a new city. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Amble discusses the piece, and what lead to its creation. My piece, Normalised Interfacing, started with a commission from the Zentrum

This year is the third time we’re hosting the Marŝarto Awards, and, for the first time, we received a (slightly) larger number of submissions for the Marŝarto Awards than we did for the SWS Awards. Objectively, this makes sense, as sound walks are a subset of walking art.On the other hand, while sound walks are

Rawz created Forgotten Stories Of Oxford, a Spoken Word collection which forms a walking tour of central Oxford, offering a glimpse behind the facade of a city whose name is synonymous with global elitism. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Rawz discusses the piece, and what lead to its

John Bechtold and his co-creator Alli Ross created Where I End & You Begin, immersive theater that sends two participants on a tandem journey across MASS MoCA’s galleries and campus in North Adams, Massachusetts. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, John discusses the work. Developed in a multi-year artist

Jeremy Knowles was part of the team that created And let no one be forgotten!, a sound walk centred on three houses in Berlin, which stand as silent witnesses to the shifting tides of history. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Jeremy discusses the piece. When I first came

James Dobbs produced a sound walk, SENDwalk, around Peel Park, in Manchester, with the help of local children. The walk was debuted at the Spirit of Little Hulton festival. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, James discusses his work. SENDwalk began with a deceptively simple question: “How can I

Thoughts on NO land is a GPS-guided walk through the Dutch nature reserve De Onlanden, with mini podcasts at ten locations, by Peter Veen. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Peter discusses his work. Not much happens in De Onlanden. The wind blows, small waves ripple, birds call, you

Annemarie Lopez visits her local supermarket and reflects on unheroic everyday walking. Early in Robert Altman’s film The Long Goodbye, Elliott Gould’s detective Marlowe goes to the supermarket at three in the morning to buy food for his cat. Under humming fluorescent light, he saunters, squinting at shelves stacked with tins, trying to find his