A collaborative video of artwork made by a group of international walking artists on the December Solstice of 2024

Solstice December 2024 – a provocation

The Solstice occurs on Saturday December 21st and marks the year’s shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere and the Longest Day in the Southern.
Solstice is seen as a significant time of year marked as a time of reflection, by festivals and rituals.

The Provocation

Artists are invited to respond to the event, making work that includes walking as a common factor.
The walk can be as long or as short as you determine, it can be indoors or outdoors and can take place whatever the weather and wherever in the world you happen to be.
Walks can take place at a time of your choosing or alternatively at at either or all these times  – exactly at sunrise, midday and sunset.

The Responses

The provocation drew responses from contributing artists who were located across different time zones in Scotland, England, Australia and Portugal. Although working separately and individually, each artist was linked; synchronised by our planetary rotation and the simple, but fundamental act of walking.

Some artists used and explored the constraints of their enclosed environment to walk and create their work. Others who were less restricted by their location, walked in urban or rural locations, coastal or inland.

Using a wide variety of approaches from lens based media, the written and spoken word to painting and drawing, with each artist shared their own investigative approach and unique perspective of the ‘event’.