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Pride Square II

Pride Square II
Pride Square, Bedford Street, Newtown NSW, Australia

abstraction

Collection · 17 items

drawing

Collection · 76 items
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Walking Art

Sub-collection · 99 items
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Walking as Artistic Practice

Sub-collection · 58 items

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abstraction

Collection · 17 items

drawing

Collection · 76 items
Sub-collection

Walking Art

Sub-collection · 99 items
Sub-collection

Walking as Artistic Practice

Sub-collection · 58 items

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Walking piece
Pride Square II is a series of 12 small drawings that attempt to capture the energy and personality of a person walking through a busy public square in Sydney's Inner West suburb of Newtown.

The title of this collection of small drawings is the name of a public space in the centre of Newtown (Gadigal) in Sydney’s Inner West. It’s a place that honours the remarkable diversity of the area in which I live and work and it is always busy. I sat on a bench in Pride Square while I made these drawings during a warm summer afternoon. Each drawing is a response to a person moving through the Square or stopping to talk to friends or waiting at the lights to cross the road. What does a person’s appearance and the way their body moves in space say about them and how does this translate as a drawing?

APA style reference

Hunt, M. (2026). Pride Square II. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/pride-square-ii/

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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