The Turnpike & Lancashire Wildlife Trust
Leigh, UK
March 2020 - August 2021
Drift was a walking project developed for the Activations programme at The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh. Activations is a testing ground to explore ways that art can exist outside the gallery walls, making social change with and for the community.
The work centred around contemporary relationships to post-industrial spaces. Focusing on the rewilding of ex-coal mining sites, including Bickershaw Country Park and Pennington Flash.
The work grew through a fortnightly walking club, a series of gatherings to share multiple perspectives on place.
The project culminated in a series of walks presented at the Wigan and Leigh Arts Festival 2021.
References & Reading:
Wanderlust. A History of Walking:
Rebecca Solnitt
Practice of Place:
Emma Smith
Social Class in the 21st Century:
Mike Savage
The Situationist City:
Simon Sadler
Resilience is Futile:
Corridor8
Mapping The Terrain, New Genre Public Art : Edited by Susan Lacy
Braiding Sweetgrass:
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Vital Little Plans: The short works of Jane Jacobs: Jane Jacobs
The Politics of the NUM (A Lancashire View): David Howell