Talking Walking

Nov 28 2024 10 ep. 22 mins 147

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Talking Walking - Andrew Stuck interviews artists, activists, and professionals who work in the field of walking or shape the world for those on foot.

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Fred Adam talking walking

Nov 28 2024 23 mins

It is the first time that the 4 year Walking Art and Local Communities project partners have met in person and the excitement is palpable. Developing the partnership and writing a successful proposal to the EU for funding to support Walking arts has taken quite a few years. Andrew Stuck is with Fred Adam one […]

Sinwah Lai talking walking

Oct 31 2024 18 mins

Andrew Stuck and Sinwah Lai have been in Psarades in north-western Greece attending the Walking Arts Encounter where the temperature hasn’t dropped much below 40°C. What it means is that Andrew interviews walking artists, either in the shade or as late into the evening as possible. Fortunately, the days are long, but the heat is […]

Kim Goldsmith talking walking

Sep 25 2024 22 mins

Andrew Stuck planned meeting up with Australian Kim Goldsmith sometime in advance, knowing that she would be returning from a residency on Skye with her partner and would only have a short time in London. They were staying in a hotel just south of Kings Cross, so Andrew met them there, with the intention of […]

Daniella Turbin talking walking

Aug 29 2024 26 mins

Andrew Stuck has travelled to Wolverhampton to meet Daniella Turbin, whose walking art practice includes drawing and photography, to talk about her year long project “A Place to Return To”. We take a walk for an hour beside a canal that runs from Wolverhampton to Stoke-on-Trent. For Daniella, this is just a short walk, as starting […]

Eléonore Ozanne talking walking

Jul 25 2024 22 mins

‘Women walking, The City, at Night’ is an initiative begun in the last three years by Eléonore Ozanne. She and Andrew Stuck are walking briskly on a grit-covered path that runs beside a lake in the resort town of Banyoles, 20 km north of Girona in Spain. They have only recently met as they are […]

Alastair Humphreys talking walking

Jun 27 2024 21 mins

Andrew Stuck has agreed to meet adventurer Alastair Humphreys at Swanscombe station and walk with him towards the Thames estuary to talk about his new book “Local”. To be honest, Andrew has never been to Swanscombe station, and as he found out later, neither had Alastair. It is an area of the estuary that is […]

Anastasia Polychronidou talking walking

Andrew Stuck is with Greek dramaturg, Anasthasia Polychronidou, at the Walking Art Encounter in Prespes, in western Macedonia and they are trying to keep out of the sun. There is not a lot of shade, but they’ve discovered that if they walk in a circuit around the local chapel, at least two of the sides […]

Tamsin Grainger talking walking

Apr 18 2024 25 mins

Only since Covid has Tamsin Grainger discovered Walking art, but in that short time she’s made two Soundwalks, which have been shortlisted for the Sound Walk September Award and she has made many other works. A Shiatsu practitioner, she bartered treatments for home stays, on long-distance walks across Europe and became known on the Camino […]

Mick Douglas talking walking

Mar 21 2024 25 mins

Andrew Stuck is with Mick Douglas, a self-confessed, long-distance solo hiker. He has worked as an artist researcher into creative practice at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, for three decades. Much of his work was around the interaction of people within modes of transport, comparing practices in cities in Australia to cities in India. We […]

Rachel Epp Buller talking walking

Feb 22 2024 18 mins

Rachel Epp Buller is an inter-disciplinary artist based in Kansas in the United States. She is the recipient of two Fulbright scholarships, the latest of which she went to wintry Edmonton in north west Canada to make a piece of walking art called “One Hundred Days of Walking”. Her piece has now been shortlisted for […]