Join us to ‘Contour the Boundary’

A series of micro navigations in the Peak District with walking artist Alison Lloyd & Glassball. 

To book a place on one of these walks please view the Events page.

The socially distanced walking events will be at three different locations along the northwest boundary and will last no more than 3 hours. The walks will not be long in distance, but are aimed to give us the time to explore the boundary in detail. Alison will show you how she uses photography and will support you to take your own pictures with the disposable film cameras provided. Please feel free to also bring along your own digital cameras and/or camera phones. 

The number for each walk is limited to 12 participants plus facilitators, so please book your place now so we can safely manage numbers during the events. The walks will be delivered within the current COVID safety guidelines, so please bring your own drinks and snacks and wear suitable all weather clothing. Hand sanitiser will be provided. 

The walks are open to all, but please be aware that there will be uneven ground and some steep paths to negotiate. For those who cannot attend, please note that we will be recording and live streaming (where possible) elements of the walks, which will be accessed through the project website www.guideline.org.uk. 

Alison Lloyd 

Alison Lloyd is an artist based in Nottingham whose early work includes curating and commissioning exhibitions, catalogues, and projects with Stephen Willats, Marina Abramović, and Sarah Staton’s Supastore, which presented early works by Jeremy Deller, Mathew Higgs, and Jessica Voorsanger within a freelance and institutional context. Before she returned to an arts practice in 2010, Alison also worked for Birmingham Artists Studio supporting resident artists to develop their individual projects, followed by working as Head of Visual Arts & Literature for Arts Council England, East Midlands Office. She is a resident artist at Primary.  

Alison’s artistic work, stretching back to the 1970’s, has been re-envisioned for several exhibitions together with Jake, a book published by TG Gallery in 2014. Her talks and lectures emphasise material developed from a fascination in documenting aspects of her life. She refers to these photographic series as ‘events’, which capture a range of speculative and choreographed happenings. These are often represented in the order in which they were shot, recalling moving-image capture and a connection to the documentation of performance.  

In 2014 her work shifted to include walking as art and out of these experiences a PhD emerged, Contouring: Women, Walking and Art (2020). The thesis combines a critical, analytical discussion of women artists of the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s with a reflective evaluation of the emergence of walking in her work. Her return to practice was driven by her experiences as a recreational hill walker and from art literature which foregrounds historical walking practices, largely within the field of postmodern sculpture. Her practice has adapted navigation, route-finding skills and contouring as artistic strategies, tools, and processes.

Glassball Studio

Glassball Studio is an interdisciplinary arts practice founded in 2002 by artists Cora Glasser and David Ball. Glassball Studio uses a wide range of working processes to find ways in which genuine co-creation can occur in the making of an artwork. The interdisciplinary practice is reactive, creating a response through collaboration that is embedded within place. Each artwork is temporal and often transient in its use of material and installation, its creation is always site-specific. Over the past 19 years, artworks through this practice have spanned from audio works, publications, subterranean events, participatory performance, lens-based works, to public works of art, light and action. To find out more please go to www.glassball.uk.

GUIDEline

GUIDEline is a two year arts and heritage project delivered by artists from Glassball Studio with the support from the Peak District National Park Authority, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England. The project is exploring the legacy of the formation of the first National Park in the UK, with a focus on the northwest boundary area (from north of Glossop to Marsden), in particular what it means to us today to live, work and visit along a mark made on a map 70 years ago. For more information please go to www.guideline.org.uk.