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Highlights
Jenn Butterworth at Whithorn
Official Folk Albums Chart Show—4th August 2026
Scrambling for maps
March 2026 we are holding 3 online Map Scrambles, in which artists will be discussing when and why they use maps or mapping to document their walking art. Map Scramble 1 (Monday 23 7pm GMT) Map Scramble 2 (Wednesday 25 7pm GMT) Map Scramble 3 (Thursday 26 7pm GMT) Each events part of the
Walking a Contemporary Valley Section
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
Books
Walking pieces
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Articles on WLC
Discovering creativity while walking Britain’s Postal Paths
Alan Cleaver is an author from Whitehaven, Cumbria UK whose latest book, The Postal Paths, looks at the routes walked by rural postmen and postwomen from the 1850s until the 1970s (vans are now used for all delivery routes in Britain) and the lives of the posties who walked them. Alan will be on a
Our feet, connected with our heritage
Using ancient maps from the National Library of Scotland and drawing new ones, Tamsin Grainger walked around the edge of Edinburgh in Walking Like a Tortoise. The result was more walks, creative responses and art-making, much questioning, conversation & radical hospitality.
Articles elsewhere
Players / Layers – Walking in Pairs
On June 18th 2026, Tamsin Grainger in Granton, Edinburgh and Kristina Rothstein at Ebbor Gorge in Somerset used the medium of mail art for a second time in their Walking in Pairs project. Each collected materials during the walk, physical or otherwise, to collaborate on two unspecified mixed media collages with the theme of “layers.” (See video of … Continue reading Players / Layers – Walking in Pairs
• Knots, a community walk
Knots, a community walk which is part of the Madelvic House / Granton:hub Doors Open Day event
• Then and Now – walking the Water of Leith
A short film of a walk along Edinburgh’s Water of Leith river with references to its past and images of paintings made along it.
• Walking the Taskscape
A piece of creative writing and an image in response to a walk on the first Friday of June 2026 in Granton, Edinburgh
• Events
Re-Sounding the Archive: Sound Archives, Memory, and Creative Practice
Online seminar series 1pm, Friday 17, 24 & 31 July This online seminar series brings together leading artists and researchers working with sound archives and creative practice. Across three lunchtime talks, invited speakers will share perspectives from their own artistic and research practices, with a particular focus on how sound archives are listened to, interpreted,
• Seasonal Slow – January 2020
Early in 2012 we moved from Dulwich to Greenwich – as one of our American friend joked ‘from one silent W neighbourhood to another’. Soon after moving we won a contract from Greenwich Healthy Living Service, part of the borough council, to create more than 100 walking and cycling routes centred on children and health centres
• Festival Soundings of Edinburgh
Festival Soundings of Edinburgh – on-line event 11.30am-1.00pm Saturday 18 September or 6.00pm-7.30pm Tuesday 21 September – FREE admission Festival Soundings of Edinburgh is a FREE online group walk to explore the venues, places and spaces of past Edinburgh festivals revealed through audio recordings of the memories of city residents and visitors. We invite you to
• Rediscovering Britain with Quintin Lake
Join Quintin Lake for an illustrated discussion of his solo pilgrimage around the coast of Britain. We are delighted to welcome Quintin Lake here to Hatchards this evening for an illustrated talk on his experience of walking and photographing Britain for his book The Perimeter. On Friday 17 April 2015, photographer Quintin Lake set off
Videos
Podcast episodes
Alex Rex and Lavinia Blackwall in Govan and Carbeth
Malin Lewis on Eilean Shona
Fiona Soe Paing in Aberdeenshire
