Art
Art
Risograph: walking from Falmouth to Coverack and camping by the Helford river
We invited risograph artists to walk Slow Ways routes and make a piece of bespoke artwork about the experience. Madeleine Kemsley chose a magical walk, night swim and wild camp in southwest Cornwall
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“To return to a place” is decolonising work in practice
Writer and founder of Peaks of Colour, Evie Muir, shares how a recent artistic 'walkshop' in Ecclesall Wood helped forge an embodied connection with nature at a mycorrhizal level resulting in a sensory woodland exhibition
Trails
“Blisters the size of cats”: a zine on walking from Leeds to Hull
A group of friends walk from Leeds to Hull and capture their experiences through the co-creation of a zine, a small imaginative D.I.Y publication
Tales from a Slow Way
Bob Marley, Kate Moss and Stormzy: Croydon artist draws portraits of people connected by a Slow Way
Artist and English teacher Jonny Kemp explores the route to Croydon from Crystal Palace, called Crocry, drawing famous people who worked or lived nearby
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If you don't know what there is, how can you protect it? Sarah Woods guides us through a walk in flowers
I walked the 81 miles from Sanquhar to Carlisle in the middle of July – the perfect season...
Long read
Walking artist ‘living with a bowl of lava in my brain’ learns to walk again at 34
The story that Slow Ways storyteller Genevieve Rudd never imagined she'd be writing for us
Art
A big group of variously abled people walked a chunk of a Bournemouth Slow Way. As they went they invented and illustrated a very weird and wonderful story
Art
Artist Super Freak walks in the wrong direction: “No way Jose! We’re better than that!”
We sent risograph artists out to walk Slow Ways because why not?