Walking Forest is a 10-year artwork exploring links with activism, natural forest networks and communities, culminating in 2028 with an ‘intentional woodland’: a place made up of trees that honour women activists as the Suffragette Arboretum had once done.
This work takes place in sites across the UK through a growing mycelium of stories, art and performance.
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Intentional Woodland
Over 100 years ago an arboretum was planted in the midst of the Suffragettes campaign to honour their courage. We read this as a symbolic act recognising the importance of collective action across difference and of active hope for an unknown and unknowable future. Walking Forest is a 10-year artwork that culminates in planting a new intentional woodland by 2028, marking the connection between women, activism and trees.
About Us
Walking Forest is led by artists Shelley Castle, Anne-Marie Culhane, Lucy Neal and Ruth Ben-Tovim with a team of collaborators. We are inspired by: a call to stand up for the natural world; the wisdom of forest networks; the energy of a living and life giving network connecting women earth protectors; the performative genius and courage of the Suffragettes and the lines from Shakespeare’s play Macbeth that conjure Birnam Wood’s ‘moving grove’.
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