Welcome to the Australian Walking Artists

Walking is integral to my way of being in the world and is central to my creative practice and its environmental focus. It’s a mode for sensing, learning, connecting and being present in place. I draw on these experiences to foreground fragile ecologies and the more-than-human world.

Alex explores notions of place through site-responsive creative methodologies. This post-landscape work moves toward an alternative view of place that communicates my personal entanglements with site, emphasising sensual discovery through embodied presence.

Walking enables a personal conversation of observation and awareness, as I visually and mentally document the subtle and not so subtle changes with my environment. It informs my artwork, whether it is walking in rainforest, open forests, streets, beaches, mountains, along rivers or looking for wildflowers in the Wallum heathland.

Interested in notions of fieldwalking, my steps have been guided by multiple beings and ecologies. I have taken people on walks—and people have taken me on favourite walks—I have shared fieldwork with scientists, 'followed the water' downhill, rambled on uneven ground, along river paths, and ‘til I have run out of water.

Walking is a central part of my daily life and research process. I walk as a way of entering into a conversation with the complexities of the places I live, work, and pass through. I examine the possibilities of walking through deep mapping workshops, writing, teaching, and audio work.

I make drawings while walking to better attune to my senses. I use beeswax as a proxy for the body’s membranes, the surfaces on which sensorial impressions are made and perceived. I don’t look at the drawing while walking, I wait until the walk has ended to see what has been captured.