Walk this Way draws together three walking artworks spanning 20 years of practice by artist/researcher Clare Qualmann.

walkwalkwalk: an archaeology of the familiar and forgotten (made collaboratively with Gail Burton and Serena Korda), was a live artwork that unfolded between 2004 and 2010, built around a regular nightwalk through the streets of Whitechapel and Bethnal Green. The exhibition presents photo documentation, found objects and text works alongside walkwalkwalk’s archive of maps and ephemera.

Perambulator (2012-2023) explored the new-parenting obstacles of pram walking, unfolding in collaboration with the artist’s children, and parent/carer participants in a series of locations from Huntly in Scotland, to New York City, to London’s East End. Photo series from the project record both the personal performances of parenting with prams, and the collective occupations of public space activated through the work.

Finally, East End Jam, an ongoing urban foraging artwork, celebrates the unexpected fruitfulness of the urban environment activated through shared walks and jam making workshops, as well as ‘jamborees’ – public feasts of jam. This element of the exhibition will be activated through a day-long event with a foraging walk and jam making workshop, a jamboree and panel discussion about food, art, walking and nature connection.

These diverse artworks are linked by the common thread of walking as a key connecting practice between people, place and politics.

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