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“Walking: Mapping Self Through Place” – An exhibition by Jane Young – Gateshead Council

The artworks in this exhibition were created in direct response to walks taken in the Derwent Valley during Jane Young’s year-long artist residency at Lockhaugh Farm in Rowlands Gill. Source: “Walking: Mapping Self Through Place” – An exhibition by Jane Young – Gateshead Council

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Radical Stroud 85

A Walk can be an Open Air Museum

A BS3 Museum Walk (Others Are Available) Join me on one of my regular walks from my home to Ashton Gate, the home of Bristol City. I am highlighting the exhibits I connect with. If you were to undertake the walk you would, undoubtedly, see different th...

Stuart Charles Butler
Radical Stroud 85

Walking: Art-act and Artefact

  We finished the previous chapter thus: Macfarlane argues that Thomas prefigures the Situationists, ‘Pioneering the walk as an art-act, as artefact.’ Well, that sort of sounds like walking as a pop-up museum in a way, doesn’t it? I asked my siste...

Stuart Charles Butler
Radical Stroud 45

Walking and Cycling and Pop-up Museums

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an Hour. As mentioned in the previous chapter, Blake’s lines have become something of a Radical Stroud motif for a number of reaso...

Stuart Charles Butler
Radical Stroud 85

Walking a Pop-up Museum

I’ve been giving a question some thought: Can a walk (be it themed and purposeful or just ad hoc recreational) not only create a pop-up museum, in consequence, when back at home (individually and/or collectively), but also create a mobile pop-up museum...

Stuart Charles Butler

conspectus

A place to gaze. Conspectuses are viewpoints where the terrain opens itself naturally to the viewer, where the eye can thread in and out of the circle of hills, and names suggest a narrative sequence offering the possibility of beginning to know where you are. Traditional conspectus include suidhe (Gaelic, seat), used to view hunting.

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