The Walking Library for Forest Walks

'The Walking Library for Forest Walks’ is a socially engaged, relational performance and walking art project that explores how walking and reading in situ may connect people to forests and promote the re-storying of landscapes towards more sustainable futures. It was commissioned by The National Forest (NT) for the Walking Festival and Timber: The International Forest Festival, Feanedock, UK, but due to pandemic restrictions was presented as an artist takeover of The National Forest's social media channels in May 2020 and at the Timber Festival in 2021. The work is part of an ongoing series of editions first conceived and initiated in 2012 to co-create knowledge about local environments through sharing walks and readings with the public from collections of books, each aesthetically composed and curated for a specific context in partnership with local commissioning organisations in global contexts.