I'm in a group exhibition opening 19 June at M16 Artspace here in Canberra. The show is called Wanderlust, and it features 11 artists whose work engages with walking, as an idea and a practice. Show details:
Wanderlust
Kate Barker, Hannah Bath, Alexander Boynes, Christopher Carmody, Amy Dunn, Shellaine Godbold, Annika Harding, Elena Papanikolakis, Jacklyn Peters, Fiona Veikkanen, Jonathan Webster
M16 Artspace, 21 Blaxland Cres Griffith, Canberra
6pm Thursday 19 June, continuing until 6 July.
Since we applied for the exhibition last year, walking seems to have become a hot topic (perhaps we're just noticing it more..?) and the word Wanderlust has been popping up everywhere. Most notably, there's a fantastic book a couple of us found, called Wanderlust: A history of walking, by Rebecca Solnit. I actually came across it not by searching 'Wanderlust' but through a brilliant article Solnit wrote about 'mansplaining' which someone shared on facebook. Wanderlust is a fascinating book, dense with information and intricately woven with ideas and histories, and beautifully written too.
If you find walking as fascinating as I do, here are some links to some sites and publications about walking and art which some of the other artists in the show have put me onto:
Still from Gabriel, Agnes Martin, 1976, featured on Walk of the Week.