Walking the Land is an artists collective that has been active in and around Gloucestershire’s Stroud Valleys since 2002. More recently our network has grown with active members from across the UK, Canada and Australia.
We link landscape, community and art through projects, research, exhibitions, installations, writing and shared walks with numerous artists, other professions and wider communities. We have
a common interest in the use of landscape for social change, public engagement, critical debate and creative forms of community activities.
Upcoming Events
Last Tuesday online Café, 19:45 hrs 29th September (London time).
Please join us in celebrating art and archaeology. We will hear from the Walking the Land artists engaged in the yearlong Salmonsbury Moot project: Zoe Ashbrook, Ruth Broadbent, Valerie Coffin Price, Andy Freedman, Amanda Steer and project lead Dr Caroline Morris, collections and education manager at the Corinium Museum. Caroline was awarded Developing Your Creative Practice funding from ACE to develop the project and as part of this invited others from Walking the Land to creatively respond to this landscape and archive.
We are delighted to have this opportunity to hear more about the history of the site and artwork created. Caroline will give an introduction to the history and background to this site and project, with the artists involved also being present to talk about their work.
An exhibition at the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, is now open until 11th October 2026. It marks the culmination of this yearlong project combining art and archaeology: a unique collaboration between artist, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, the Corinium Museum and Walking the Land.
Salmonsbury Camp is a scheduled site in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. There is evidence for activity from the Neolithic and Bronze Age. The camp itself is Iron Age in date with activity continuing into the Roman occupation. Excavations have found Anglo Saxon burials and Medieval Ridge and Furrow. The site was used as the meeting place for the court leet of the Salmonsbury hundred. It is now a farm and nature reserve. The paper archive at the Corinium Museum includes digs from the Thirties up to the 2000’s: also revealing some of the story of Helen O’Neill, a redoubtable female archaeologist.
Please reply to wtlcic@gmail.com by 22nd September, we will then send out final details and zoom link by 26th September. Please note and use this new email address for any queries regarding this LTC and to book your place.
October 2nd – First Friday Walk : This months walk will be lead by Zoe Ashbrook.
More information coming soon.
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