Walking as art itself. That’s a frustrating, slippery, and liberating thought. It’s that slippiness that draws me back, and that is where I think the art is.

Commissioned by the Axis Green Arts Department at Axis Ballymun in Dublin, and funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.

For this project I worked and walked with artists Maeve Stone, Veronica Dyas, and Shanna May Breen, alongside Creative Producer Niamh Ní Chonchubhair. Each of us uses walking in our creative practices in different ways, and we came together to explore and experience those collectively, and ask the question – how can walking be art?

The project meandered over 18 months from 2023-25, taking shape in a collaborative, feminist, and non-hierarchical way, and allowed for the ebbs and flows of the lives of the group. In April 2025, we collectively installed an exhibition in Axis Ballymun, which we considered a way of opening our notebooks publicly.

A short text about the project that I wrote for the opening of the exhibition can be read here.

This is the soundscape that Shanna created for the exhibition, which features a wonderful text about our walks written by Veronica. You can read the text here.