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Art Explorations online with Gail Astbury

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Multiple locations
60 minutes
Free

Museum of Walking

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Museum of Walking

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Art Explorations are a series of walks investigating artworks displayed in outdoor settings in London, Barcelona, Edinburgh and New York, as well as on Britain’s Kent coast, created and led by Gail Astbury, public art enthusiast as well as a practitioner in her own right. Adapted to COVID times these were offered as a guided public art

Art Explorations are a series of walks investigating artworks displayed in outdoor settings in London, Barcelona, Edinburgh and New York, as well as on Britain’s Kent coast, created and led by Gail Astbury, public art enthusiast as well as a practitioner in her own right.

Adapted to COVID times these were offered as a guided public art tour for all to enjoy from home. The tours held on Zoom using Google Streetview, and were recorded, approximately 60 minutes in duration, and they offered an opportunity for attendees to ask questions during the tours.

Art Explorations took place between April 2020 and April 2021 visiting:

  • Victoria, London
  • Kings Cross to Regent’s Place, London
  • Peckham, London
  • City East and Tameside, London
  • Vauxhall and Battersea, London
  • The Greenwich Meridian, London
  • The High Line, New York
  • Edinburgh
  • Victoria, London
  • Dungeness to Dover – “oh, we do like to be beside the seaside”
  • The High Line, New York
  • Mersey to Morecambe Bay – “oh, we do like to be beside the seaside”
  • London’s King’s Cross and beyond
  • London’s Liverpool Street Loop
  • Barcelona

Other Art Explorations online included:

  • Women and Public Art
  • Public Light Art


These were originally organised by Andrew Stuck as part of the Museum of Walking.

APA style reference

Astbury, G., & Stuck, A. (2020). Art Explorations online with Gail Astbury. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/art-explorations-online-with-gail-astbury/

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To walk or tramp, as in “I’m going to vamp on home soon.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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