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Walking piece Marŝarto26 2026

Pride Square II

Pride Square II is a series of 12 small drawings that attempt to capture the energy and personality of a person walking through a busy public square in Sydney's Inner West suburb of Newtown.

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Walking piece 2011

Explorer

Rachael Clewlow’s Explorer (2011) visualizes her daily movements through the city using colour-coded tracks. Based on her “‘statistical diaries’,” it transforms walking patterns into abstract forms and colours, mapping mobility as art.

Happened
walkingevent SWS23  

Walking Abstractions: A walking drawing workshop and exhibition in Lapland

27 - 28 Sep, 2023
Rovaniemi, Finland

This workshop explores the extraordinary possibilities of walking bodies for the creation of drawings, through a unique process of blind drawing without being blindfolded, and by experimenting with speed, time, surfaces, and walking styles.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1969

Untitled (Pocket Drawings)

William Anastasi’s Pocket Drawings are made by marking folded sheets in his pocket while walking, creating abstract traces of movement. Part of his “unsighted” practice, they explore chance, motion, and perception, translating physical experience into subtle visual forms.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1968

Stephen Long

Stephen Long’s 1,600-foot sculpture blends with the landscape, its red, yellow, and blue stripes shifting with natural light. Optical mixing and changing hues make movement and aerial perspectives essential to experiencing the work fully.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1956

Painting with his feet

Kazuo Shiraga transformed painting into performance, using his feet to kick, drag, and smear thick oil paint across floor-laid canvases. His bold, dynamic gestures capture bodily energy, dissolving the line between artist, movement, and material.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1987

Double Star: Antares

Double Star: Antares (1986–88) by Athena Tacha was a site-specific public sculpture in Cincinnati’s Hyde Park. Featuring 27 brick walls forming two star-like structures, it explored astronomy, spatial form, and landscape, but was later dismantled.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1969

Las Vegas Piece

Walter De Maria’s 1969 Las Vegas Piece – mile-long bulldozer lines forming a square in the desert – was hard to find even then and is now barely visible. The work’s elusiveness was central to the experience, emphasizing remoteness and chance.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2004

The Mourning After: Duration’s Wisdom II

Duration’s Wisdom II is a meditative walking performance on a 20-ft canvas, depicting the final stage of mourning. Using circular, continuous movements, Erika Knerr processed grief, revisiting loss and reflection, performed in Zaragoza, Spain after the Madrid attacks.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2012

Pathscape

Pathscape is a project by Reg Carremans that explores movement, landscape, and painting. During the Sideways 2012 Walking and Art Festival, Carremans adapted his boots with canvases, capturing impressions of the terrain with each step to create "landscape paintings" in real-time.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2000

Untitled

Untitled (2000) features large wall-mounted styrofoam panels transformed into paintings through acetone-etched footprints.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2013

The Path of Love

The Path of Love by Omar Mismar is a 30-day project where the artist uses Grindr to navigate the city, choosing a man each day and tracking his routes to trace paths of desire and movement through urban space.

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Walking pieces

Walking piece
Walking piece 1968

Mile Long Drawing

For Mile Long Drawing, De Maria drew two parallel chalk lines a mile long in the Mojave Desert, bringing Minimalism outdoors.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2010

33 Days West

33 Days West is a series of photocopies from Foster Spragge’s original walking drawings. Each vertical strip represents a day’s walk, marking compass positions every 30 minutes, while the originals were mailed in nine envelopes from different stages of the walk.

Articles elsewhere

Walking as Artist... 90

Mollie Rice, “Field Study, Parramatta Road” (2018)

“Mollie Rice explores human spatiality, and sensations of place, through an experimental drawing practice. Multiple visits to a particular site by the artist yield sound recordings, which are then translated into drawings in the studio, creating a complex connection between percpetion and place, action and experience. The works in this exhibition were created through a […]

Ellen Mueller
Walking as Artist... 75

Margaret Seymour, Walking in the Colour Field: Local and Remote (2018)

“WALKING IN THE COLOUR FIELD: LOCAL AND REMOTE (2018) ArticulateUpstairs, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt, Sydney. WALKING IN THE COLOUR FIELD is an interactive artwork that takes place both inside and beyond the gallery. By wearing a specially designed sensor armband, two ‘remote’ participants who are simply going about their daily lives determine the colours displayed […]

Ellen Mueller
Walking as Artist... 85

Mike Dax, Salt Drawing (2022)

(credit) SALT from Michael Dax Iacovone on Vimeo. “Artist Statement: I like to think of drawing as a broad term, not limited to pencil on paper.  Drawing is a record and a representation.  It can be a record of what something looks like, or it can represent a location, or an action.  It can be […]

Ellen Mueller

oversupinate

People who jog, run, and sprint have their share of problems that slow-moving people can barely comprehend. One is oversupination. As the OED defines it, to oversupinate is “To run or walk so that the weight falls upon the outer sides of the feet to a greater extent than is necessary, desirable, etc.” A 1990 Runner’s World article gets to the crux of the problem: “It’s hard to ascertain exactly what percentage of the running population oversupinates, but it’s a fraction of the people who think they do.” Credits to Mark Peters.

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