Exploration Walks
Walking Artist Alison Lloyd leads three walking expeditions to coincide with the exhibition Joseph Banks: A Great Endeavour
Walking Artist Alison Lloyd leads three walking expeditions to coincide with the exhibition Joseph Banks: A Great Endeavour. Each walk explores a different environment: the city, woodlands and coastline. Elements of the walks feel and look like conventional ‘rambles’, other parts will be unique, a surprise taking participants on a journey of discovery into the ‘unknown’. All the three walks are about exploration and travelling into the unknown as Joseph Banks would have done when he set sail with James Cook on their voyage of discovery.
Expedition 1: Contouring Lincoln City
Wednesday 2nd April 5 pm – 7 pm
Start at The Collection, Lincoln LN2 1LP
With The Usher Young Creatives, created with young people for young people.
Meet at The Collection ( ‘base camp’) for our exploratory expedition through Lincoln City.
book at http://walkinglincoln.eventbrite.co.uk
Expedition 2: Chapel St Leonards (Chapel Point cafe car park)
Sunday 13th April 11.00 am - 4:30 pm
Start and finish at Chapel Point cafe car park, PE24 5UZ
Distance 5 miles
Minibus from The Collection at 9:40 am (or meet at the start point)
book at http://chapelwalk.eventbrite.co.uk
Expedition 3: Woodhall Spa Woods and Plantations
Sunday 27 April 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Start and finish at Coronation Hall, Spa Road, Woodhall Spa, LN10 6PZ
Distance 8 miles
Minibus from The Collection at 9:45 am (or meet at the start point)
book at http://woodhallwalk.eventbrite.co.uk
Walks are FREE. Please book on-line or contact 01522 550965
• The walks will take place, whatever the weather
• Expedition 1 is for young people 16yrs and over
• Expedition 1, terrain city pavements, and parks. The walk will include the steep hills of Lincoln.
• Children are very welcome on Expeditions 2&3, but under 16s must be accompanied by an adult
• Expeditions 2&3 , terrain rough ground, on and off field paths and tracks
• FREE minibus to the start point from The Collection, Lincoln
Alison will lead each walk, setting the scene for an exploration into the unknown. During the walks she will talk about 'wilderness', the challenge of the unfamiliar, ways of walking and experiencing a place, and being a walking artist. Alison investigates our feelings about the expedition, such as those expressed by Joseph Bank in one of his first journal entries
Extract from Joseph Bank’s Journal.
After having waited in this place ten days, the ship, and everything belonging to me, being all that time in perfect readyness to sail at a moments warning, we at last got a fair wind, and this at
3 O’Clock in the even weigd anchor, and set sail, all in excellent health and spirits perfectly prepared (in Mind at least) to undergo with chearfulness any fatigues or dangers that may occur in our intended voyagage.
"A walk is a line of enquiry. The poetic experience of place, specifically wild or mountainous places - places where we become independent again, remote from help - presents a situation for walking and art to come together." Alison Lloyd
Further information will be sent out to everyone who books for the walks
Find out more about Alison and Contemporary Art of Walking at
www.contemporaryartofwalking.com