A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimises this alienation.
Rebecca Solnit
Daniella Turbin is a walking artist from Wolverhampton who stayed with us in August 2020 to walk the paths of Huntly and its hinterland. She recorded these walks traditional analogue photography.
How can walking be used as a tool to explore unfamiliar places? How does it vary according to access rights and facilities in different places?
Daniella walked over 250 miles around the Huntly area. Often alone and sometimes with others. These walks were recorded on her 35mm film camera and later processed in her studio. Throughout her time with us she did fifteen walks which were planned in response to the town history, shared conversations and research into the Deveron Projects archive.
As an English artist Daniella was used to the comfort of walking the signposted and trodden paths around England. On arrival in Huntly the first lesson to learn was how to walk with the Scottish freedom to roam. Her walks around Huntly were therefore explorations in the right to roam, such as placing a piece of string on the ordnance survey map of Huntly and seeing how closely this line can be followed in the landscape.
All the walks taken during this time are part of an ongoing ordnance survey mapping project for the UK.
