Walking the Land’s exhibitions and events | 2010
First Friday Walks
Walking the Land are actually going to get our boots on, polish up our map-reading skills and armed with cameras, sketch pads, snacks and all sorts of wet weather gear, see what it’s like out there in the big-wide-world.
……and we’re inviting you to join us on what we are referring to as First Friday Walks – not too many guesses needed ‘cos they will take place regularly on the first friday of every month and we’ll be walking….somewhere
the time has come to sort out your sketchbooks, charge your batteries, wax your walking boots and anything else you can think of and get out into our countryside.
Walking the Land/The Stroud Walking Festival
River ArtWalk
date: Friday 3rd September
time: 1:15 is the time we leave
return time: 16:45 – 17:00
starting point: Outside The Old Passage Inn at Arlingham, Gloucestershire. GL2 7JR www.theoldpassage.com/reservation.contact.html
lunch: if you’d like lunch beforehand, please ensure you allow plenty of time. (If you’re hoping to eat at The Old Passage it’s wise to book and let them know you’re walking with us)
parking: Car parking is limited so please car-share where possible.
where we’ll walk: we’ll be walking along by the Severn, viewing in the Dumbles, wild flowers and wildfowl
en route: This walk will focus on helping you to producing artwork to be exhibited at The Stroud Walking Festival and may comprise words/images/photographs/drawings/interventions – who knows? And we’ll be echoing a walk taking place on the opposite bank - see below
Dogs: Once again, we’ll be walking through fields with livestock and regrettably this walk is unsuitable for furry critters.
Terrain: partially rough with stiles to negotiate
Booking: Please let us know if you’re coming – email: info@walkingtheland.org.uk
cost: £7.50 payable when booking please
AND ON THE SAME DAY, SAME TIME BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER….
Walking the Land artists Richard Keating and Kel Portman have joined with other artists to exhibit their art work at Newnham on Severn’s ‘UPSTAIRS at the George’.
Part of the show’s events programme includes a walk from Newnham, with artist/environmentalist Andrew Darke.
Time: 1:15 (to greet and wave to walkers across the River at Arlingham, at the beginning of their “River ArtWalk”.)
Starting point: Severn St. Newnham on Severn
Where: the walk will climb southwest out of Newnham affording wonderful views of the Horseshoe, then drop down to Bullo Pill and go back to Newnham alongside the River arriving back in time (ideally) to greet the finish of the Walking the Land walk at the Old Passage from the Newnham side of the river.
Please note:
Dogs: Once again, we’ll be walking through fields with livestock and regrettably this walk is unsuitable for furry critters.
Terrain: for able-bodied walkers only
Both walks will take place whatever the weather, so suitable clothing and footwear please.
Walking the Land’s ‘site10′ exhibitions and events | June 2010
Planning is underway for our contributions to Stroud’s site10 visual arts festival, these include exhibitions of curated works and WalkWorks
‘between….two shores’
The Old Passage, Arlingham.
invited artists, using various media and disciplines respond to the space between the two shores of The Severn.
‘between…A & Bee‘
a walk with members of The Global Bee Project between the visual arts festivals of Stroud and Bath.
This work and the resulting presentations will focus on the threats posed to our native bee population and the possible impact on the environment.
You can check our progress on the ‘between…A & Bee’ pages.
Stroud Festival of Nature 2010
Saturday 5th June
Stratford Park
Stroud Food and Drink and Stroud Walking Festival | September 2010
This two-week event is scheduled for September 3rd – 19th, 2010
Walking the Land will be leading walks and curating an exhibition of local walks.
100 day countdown
’100 day countdown’ is a project organised by Bristol’s major public gallery The Arnolfini, who will be coordinating projects that coincide with the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change.
Our aim is to reflect on the 100 Days (from 29 August – 6 December) that lead to the conference, with artworks and events designed to raise the public’s awareness of the seriousness of our global climate situation.
As well as creating works we see our role (Walking the Land and Dominic Thomas) as unfunded facilitators in the process – helping to put artists in touch with one another, channeling ideas, helping to coordinate and arrange for additional help with any activities, arranging publicity and resulting exhibitions of work.
In addition, we hope artists may wish to broadcast material and notices here on the blog pages of our website.
The focus for projects is The River Severn (one aspect of our local landscape that will be irrevocably changed by climate and also the proposed Barrage). Beyond this we don’t want to prescribe what you may or may not want to work on, where or how this is undertaken.
Some of you have already kicked off with ideas about collaborative projects and we would like to invite artists to continue to share their thoughts and publish ideas to one another.
As mentioned in an earlier email, the severn will be doing it’s thing on august 22nd with one of the year’s biggest bores
(have a look on www.magnificentsevern.co.uk and for tide times: www.severn-bore.co.uk/2009.htm)
This could offer a good starting point for ideas and making contact.
Please get in touch (with us or the whole group) with any comments, ideas or suggestions
July | 09
Stroud Festival of Nature 2009
Saturday 18th July
Stratford Park
The Festival hosts local and county wide organizations, involved in environment, conservation and green lifestyles.
The Festival is running alongside the annual Stroud Country Show, so there should be a great atmosphere with plenty to see and do.
for further details contact:
e: steverob.illus@virgin.net
t: 01453 753123
‘site09′ exhibitions and events | June 09
‘thinking about…Trees’
Richard Keating | ‘new leaf study’
date: 20th June
10:00 – 12:30 and 14:00 – 16:30
meeting outside the Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud
cost: free
contact: 01452 812224 & 01453 756064
Walking the Land artists invite you to join them in making art work that celebrates, reflects and responds to the trees in the tree collection here in Stratford Park. As part of an ongoing study of how artists and non-artists value trees, Walking the Land offer support in studying and observing the trees, considering their biology, aesthetics and cultural significance and in identifying what it is about them that resonates with us.
Using these studies you will be encouraged to complete a piece of work on the day that can be incorporated into a temporary ‘Tree Gallery in the Park’. In addition, a selection of the resulting artworks will form an exhibition to be arranged later in the year and also feature on Walking the Land’s website eGallery Participants will need to bring their own art materials, cameras, sound recording equipment, notebooks, etc.
‘thinking about…Food’
Kel Portman.| ‘17 useful vegetables that you shouldn’t be without when travelling’
Dates: 1st June – 30th July 09
time: 11:00 – 22:00
The Old Passage, Arlingham
Gloucestershire. GL2 7JR
time: daily from 11:00
t: 01452 740547
e: oldpassage@ukonline.co.uk
Our fascination with food is reflected in countless TV programmes, magazines and dozens of new celebrity chefs. Increasingly we’re being asked to think more deeply about the subject…to consider where food comes from, farming practices, it’s preparation, appearance and taste.
Artists have a long history of interest in food’s visual qualities, but other subjects arise as they examine it’s progress from sea, river or farm through to the plate.
Organised jointly by Sally Pearce of The Old Passage and ‘Walking the Land’, the exhibition ‘thinking about…Food’ includes works by painters, printmakers, poets, photographers and sculptors who examine food’s visual, cultural and ecological impact.
Yummy!
Take part in voting for the winner of The Old Passage Art Award – the Public’s favourite artwork from the collection.
‘River Severn ArtWalks’
Tom Keating | river image
A series of guided, creative walks with ‘Walking the Land’
dates: Saturday 6th, 13th, 27th June
time: 9:00 – 12:45
place: The Old Passage,Arlingham, Gloucestershire. GL2 7JR
cost: £7.50 Booking essential
contact:
t: 01452 812224 & 01453 756064 e: info@walkingtheland.org.uk
Landscape, walks and journeys are Walking the Land’s source of inspiration and the subject for their artworks and installations.Britain’s longest river provides the subject for these walks, as it flows through Gloucestershire and close to ‘The Old Passage’ on it’s 354 km journey to the sea.
The Severn’s ferocious reputation, it’s famous Bore and the second largest tidal range in the world, has long been held in awe by navigators, naturalists and artists.With plans for a huge barrage project to harness the River’s power now at an advanced stage, the state of the River could be changed permanently.
These morning ArtWalks of around 5 Km alongside the River starts from The Old Passage Inn at Arlingham. Participants will be invited to make their own artwork and examine ‘the walk’ and the River as their subject, perhaps reflecting on it’s fragility. During the walk, you will be guided by photographers, artists and lecturers; Tom Keating, Richard Keating and Kel Portman, who will offer creative guidance, help and advice about subject choice, technique and process.
A selection of the resulting artworks will form an exhibition on our Walking the Land eGallery.
You’ll be back just in time for lunch, so book a table at The Old Passage
theoldpassege.com
Walking the Land’s eGallery pages are at:
walkingtheland.org.uk/walkingthelandgallery
May | 09
Connecting with Place, People and Land through Walking and Art
with Walking the Land & Martin Large
Stroud Communiversity
date: Friday 15th May 2009
time: 9:30
Walking around the Slad Valley, starting at The Exchange-visiting the Summer Street Allotments, Swifts Hill, Rosie’s Orchard, Valley Organics CSA at Stroud Slad Farm, the Woolpack at Slad, Bulls Cross and Folly Lane-taking a sketch pad and camera and stopping from time to time-guided by artists from Walking the Land. The walk is hilly in places. We will be out walking for about six hours with regular stops to draw and take photographs with a longer lunch stop and again for tea.
Evening Meal & Social at Star Anise Arts Café.
• Bookings and further details from Communiversity
w: stroudcommonwealth.org.uk
e: vitalsqueeze@gmail.com
t: 01453 766598
• download a PDF
About Stroud Communiversity
Stroud Communiversity returns this year with a fresh feast of Stroud’s finest projects being showcased and explored over three packed days.
With Land, Food and Money at the heart of this recession, our response is an examination of practical, creative and innovative solutions to support the growth and development of a resilient local economy.