Category Archives: place

Equinox

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I (along with five others) responded to a provocation to respond to the spring equinox by making a walking artwork. This is the result (showing the six works in a 12 minute video). I hope you enjoy.

Thanks to Kel Portman for instigation and curation.

Ronaigh – on Radiophrenia this coming Sunday

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Radiophrenia – https://radiophrenia.scot/listen/ – 13 April 2025 10:00 am – 11:30 am

July.
40 miles off the top of the Outer Hebrides.
Stand below St Ronan’s church. Walk south on lazy bed corrugations to the low cliffs.
Turn east. Pass two geos. Walk up towards the lighthouse and the east coast peak, to stand above a land-slipped cliff edge.
Walk west onto, along, over the ridge and down the long slope to the west side of the northern peninsula.
Walk onto the rock field. Walk to the end of the peninsula. Walk round the tip and south along the eastern coast to the landing.

Radiophrenia and three of my works

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Radiophrenia is back – Monday April 7th to Sunday April 20th.

I have three works appearing and the first is Hallaig on 7 April 2025 4:30 am – 6:30 am

May.
The Hebridean island of Raasay.
From a beach below Gualann na Leac walk up the slope to the path, the cairn and the milepost. Follow the track north into the birchwood and walk down through the woods towards the waterfall; stop on a small bluff. Retrace my way, cross the Hallaig Burn, walk up the hill to the lost (by edict of a nineteenth century landlord) village of Hallaig.
Walk the stones of the houses.
Walk back, south, cross the burn at the ford. Walk on, beyond the milepost, then turn, and walk down the slope to the beach.

Remember, no archive, no replays, live only – Radiophrenia – https://radiophrenia.scot/

Terminalia 2025

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It was great to be able to put my Terminalia work into Kel Portman’s call and be part of this wonderful group of walking artists – here is the final version of the works – enjoy.

A walk on Dove Crag Island for Terminalia 2025

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Dove Crag Island is created by my human-scale movement and my imagination. I walk the island once each month across the turning of the year. For Terminalia I walk an eight-mile shoreline … a boundary of an imagined island … in north Northumberland.

In light snow I walk
the shore of Dove Crag Island.
The land is sodden.

Amongst The Oaks
one blackbird flies, then three more.
Cold grips the woodland.

Boot-knock on wet boards.
I stand on the wooden bridge
above the tumbling burn.

The shoreline turns east.
Amongst trees my chill eases
as the wind drops away.

I watch a field empty.
Sheep run to the sound of
the shepherd’s quad bike.

 

Radiophrenia schedule announced

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and now the schedule is announced – https://radiophrenia.scot/schedule/ – lots of amazing radio to listen to, 24 hours a day.

My three pieces are scheduled as follows

Island Suite: movement 1; Beàrnaraigh Beag,     Sunday 27th August, 05:45-08:00

Watershed,                                                           Wednesday 30th August, 07:00-07:30

Island Suite: movement 2; Alnay,                         Sunday 3rd September, 05:45-10:00

Have a listen …

23rd February 2022 … Terminalia

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In celebration of the ancient Roman god Terminus, god of boundaries, whose festival is 23rd February … I walked the shoreline of my imaginary lockdown island – Contención Island (https://martinpeccles.com/other-sound-works/contencion-island/). Although I’ve waked this in sections before, I have never previously walked it in one go.

So, starting at about 05:50 I walked through the dawn and ended at 10:00 – four hours – the length of the shoreline was about 11 miles and the walk total was about 12 once I add in the distance from my house to the shore. Unsurprisingly, there wasn’t much of a dawn chorus along the shoreline in February … and it was quite windy … force 4 to 5 gusting 6 to 7.

I started in the small bay to the southwest and walked clockwise, with the sun; Happy Terminalia.