We relaunched The Walkspace Erratics last Sunday with a delightful springtime boulder hunt. We took the name "Erratic" from the glacial erratic boulders which were deposited across the region in an ice age 450,000 years ago. Robson and Andy felt it was time to pay tribute and so devised a walk from Cannon Hill Park […]
We are delighted to announce that the first ever Walkspace short film night will be taking place this Thursday, 17th February at Artefact in Birmingham. Our collective of walking artists has ballooned since our humble beginnings in early 2020 and this event will showcase some of the moving-image work produced by the membership. Expect hand-drawn […]
A couple of weeks ago Andrew Stuck came to Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham to interview me for his excellent Talking Walking podcast. We talked Walkspace, filmmaking, "extreme noticing", erratic boulders and the upcoming Parallel Walking exhibition. We saw a kingfisher, a miniature model of the Elan Valley Reservoir and I gave some suggestions for […]
On Sunday 22nd August we launched our new series of public walks with In Search of the Brumphalos, a journey to find the heart of Birmingham. The walk was devised and lead by Walkspace members Andy Howlett and Robson and was inspired by an article in The Guardian which revealed the precise geometric centres of […]
The first in a new series of public walks.
For the past several years I've been working on a feature-length essay-film about Birmingham Central Library and the death of Modernism. The film is called Paradise Lost, History in the Unmaking and it could be described as a psychogeographical detective story in which I investigate the ruins of yesterday's future in an effort to understand […]
I recently had the privilege of walking in the company of the omni-talented Kate Thompson around their new South Birmingham stomping ground. We talked nostalgia, creativity and mental health, and made many friends and enemies along the way. Kate reports below.
I have a map of Birmingham on my bedroom wall that I consult when looking for places to explore. At some point towards the end of the year I noticed something that caught my attention: a blue blob inside a green blob. The blue blob was labelled "Edgbaston Pool". It appeared that there was a […]
On Christmas Eve I met up with local podcaster and author of At Walking Pace, Nyla Naseer for a walk around Highbury Park. Nyla captured some of the walk and conversation on video for her walking-themed YouTube channel. Part interview, part impromptu tour of some of the park's curios (including an "Angry Wall" and a […]
I made a film looking back at my experience of walking during the pandemic. From the isolated strolls of lockdown, through the gradual stages of easing, and on to the tentative re-emergence of collective walking; this is my suburban exploration. Originally made for the 4th World Congress of Psychogeography for which I only managed to […]