Exhibition: 3-27 March 2025
FFW: Friday 7th March
Private View: Friday 7 March, 5-7pm
Symposium: Friday 21 March 2025, 9:30am-4:30pm. Register to attend via Eventbrite here.
(Image: Ruth Broadbent)
Line(s) of Enquiry is an exhibition and symposium developed in collaboration by Walking the Land and Hardwick Gallery (University of Gloucestershire).
For the past 18 months, WtL has held a number of First Friday Walks on the Honeybourne Line, a former railway track that is now a green corridor connecting communities in the north of Cheltenham, including Hardwick Campus, to the High Street and mainline station in the south. Artists living further afield n Stroud, Nailsworth, Cirencester, Oxfordshire, Cardiff, Somerset and Edinburgh were also invited to take part in the project and have engaged with a linear route closer to home that resonates with the brief, in a form of linked study to bring another layer of research and contemplation to the project that also features as part of the exhibition and symposium. Read more about the project here
Exhibition 3-27 March
Hardwick Gallery UoG Cheltenham, 3rd – 27th March 2025, open Mon- Fri 10am -4pm.
Fourteen Walking the Land artists taking part in the project will be presenting a selection of artworks, writing, research and exploratory materials including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and film made in response to the project.
Information on visiting the exhibition can be found on the Hardwick gallery website here
Image: Richard Keating
First Friday Walk & Private View 7 March
A final First Friday Walk along the Honeybourne Line in Cheltenham will be 7th March and will finish in time for the exhibition Private View at Hardwick Gallery 5-7pm. To register your interest in joining this creative walk led by Walking the Land followed by a private view of the exhibition please email wtl@walkingtheland.org.uk
Symposium 21 March UoG Cheltenham
To contextualise the exhibition within a wider field of practices, Walking the Land and Hardwick Gallery have coordinated a day-long symposium of discussions and workshops at the University of Gloucestershire (UoG). Following an introduction to the project by Zoe Ashbrook (WtL) and Sarah Bowden (Hardwick Gallery) we will hear from WtL artists Janette Kerr, Ruth Broadbent, Valerie Coffin Price, Amanda Steer about their relationship to line, drawing and location. Jean Boyd, Dan Keech, and Sarah Bowden from UOG will approach the exhibition as a thought experiment and discuss what the project initiates. There will also be an opportunity to take part in a group walking/drawing session with our guest panellists and WtL artists, and the final discussion between Clare Qualmann, Richard Keating, and Paul Wakelam will explore ideas around walking as a creative, collaborative practice.