40 Walks Blog 
The website 40walks.wordpress.com documents a project centered on urban walking as a form of artistic and cultural exploration. It features a series of walks—forty in total—undertaken in different locations, each detailed with photographs, maps, and reflective commentary. The project emphasizes the sensory, spatial, and historical dimensions of walking, positioning it as a method for engaging with urban environments beyond conventional tourism or transit.
Throughout the site, there is attention to the interplay between landscape, architecture, and everyday life, revealing patterns and narratives embedded in the city fabric. The walks vary in scale and theme, often highlighting overlooked or marginalized aspects of the urban experience. This approach situates walking within broader contexts of cultural geography, urban studies, and creative practice, inviting viewers to consider mobility, place-making, and the politics of urban space.
Most recent articles
Walking with Adrienne Scullion on 23 August 2014
Saligo Bay to Machir Bay, Islay I am walking with my friend and colleague, Adrienne. Late August in Scotland can feel like early autumn, but waking up in Port Charlotte today, the sun glistening off a calm and beautifully clear Loch Indaal, summer is still here at least. It’s many years since I’ve visited […]
Walking with Graeme Miller on 19 June 2014
Greenhithe to Swanscombe Peninsula I am walking with Graeme Miller, who walked into my life some years ago with such a vibrant intelligence that I was determined to keep him in it. Sending a 40 Walks invitation in 2009 and holding him to delivering on it proved to be a successful strategy. I haven’t […]
Walking with Beanie Bell on 25 April 2014
Fortrose I am walking with my good friend Beanie. Beanie and I have been friends since our undergraduate days in Theatre Studies. The second walk I did for 40 Walks was with Beanie’s daughter, Eloise. And now I’m at Walk 38. I am so immensely glad that we are here, taking time out to walk […]
Walking with Alex Kelly on 19 September 2013
Berwickshire Coastal Path Border Walk I am walking with Alex Kelly. Alex was born in Walsall, lives in Sheffield, and works in Sheffield and Leeds (as well as travelling a lot with the theatre company, Third Angel). His mum was born in Drumchapel, lived in Dundee, then Dublin and for many years in Walsall, but […]
Walking with Clare Thornton on 18 February 2013
Bristol I am walking with Clare. Clare was at University with me but in more recent years our paths have crossed mostly at live art festivals. The frantic bustle of festivals leaves little time for proper talking (lots of people, lots of work to see, lots of interruptions, lots of half-spoken thoughts and unfinished sentences…) […]
Walking with Mary Nixon on 2 February, 2013
Conwy I am walking with my Aunty Sos (proper name Mary Nixon, née Mary Duncalf). I also like to think that we are walking with my mum, Prunie (proper name June Heddon, née June Duncalf). June was one of 12 siblings who grew up in the small town of Conwy, in North Wales. My Aunty Sos […]
Walking with Claire MacDonald on 9 June 2012
Culzean I am walking with my friend Claire MacDonald. Claire seems to have accidentally arrived in my life (I wrote about the theatre company she co-founded, Impact, and she then invited me to join a research project). There are so many connections and overlaps in our lives that I am profoundly grateful for the accident. […]
Walking with Jen Harvie on 27 May 2012
Lea Valley Walk I am walking the Lea Valley Walk with Jen Harvie. Jen was completing her PhD in Glasgow just as I was beginning mine, and then moved to London shortly after. She is a bright spark in a network of connections, someone I enjoy bumping into at conferences and wish I had time […]
Walking with Natalie Wilson on 19 May 2012
Friston Forest & The Seven Sisters I am walking with Natalie, a firm friend first made at university. Spring has been very slow in coming – wet and or/windy and/or unseasonably cold. Natalie has premonitions of walking in giant hailstones and so it is that I am instructed to carry with me from Glasgow […]
Walking with Joyce MacDougall on 3 December 2011
Kilchrenan It is Saturday 3rd December – my 42nd birthday – and I am walking with my Aunty Joyce, down the single track roads of Kilchrenan. Kilchrenan was the first place I lived – from 0 to 8 years. Eight years is a long time for a child – especially when it’s the first eight […]
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Park to Park Sunday walk – Tooting & Streatham Commons And Norbury Park
South of the River Thames the buildings are dense, and green spaces are in short supply. All the same, great rhomboids of park land dot the landscape on what was common land. At the time of the mid 1800’s expansion of London, local people campaigned and paid for the land to be set aside, and
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