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Ruth Broadbent

@ruthbroadbent.bsky.social
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Artist · Educator · walk.draw · Drawing · Sculpture · Line · Nature & Ecology · Earth & Water · Co-Director Walking the Land CIC www.ruthbroadbent.com www.ruthbroadbent.com/walk-draw/

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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Drawing | Undercurrents. Symposium at Trinity Buoy Wharf on 17 Sept. It’s a busy week for drawing with two events in one week. These events by Drawing Projects and Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize are always good. More events here drawingprojects.uk/index.php/bl...
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Events and Education Programme - Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026
The Website of Drawing Projects
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Looking forward to Drawing as Knowledge: Practice, Theory and History 16-17 Sept. “drawing as visual thinking”, inspired by the life & work of Deanna Petherbridge @warburginstitute.bsky.social & online @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...
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Drawing as Knowledge: Practice, Theory and History
A Collaboration Between The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Warburg Institute, London  This conference has been organised to coincide…
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Salmonsbury: a celebration of art and archaeology is now open at the Corinium Museum, Cirencester until 11 October. Artwork by six artists, including myself, plus artefacts from the archive coriniummuseum.org/event/salmon...
Poster collage of artefacts and artwork details with info text on exhibition
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’ll be exhibiting some artwork at Future for Water’s River Summit and Festival again this year. We’ll be by the Thames in Henley on Saturday so I’ll bring a few drawing materials too, or bring your own, if you fancy joining me drawing by the river. Info and tickets www.theriversummit.com
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Celebrating Rivers
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’ll be leading a walk.draw artist walk at Salmonsbury Moot on Saturday. Lots of activities all day - come and join us if you’re near Bourton-on-the-Water. More info at ruthbroadbent.com/walk-draw/
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walk.draw - Ruth Broadbent
Walk and draw with artist and tutor, Ruth Broadbent. Online and in-person walkshops and events.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“A walk around the studio is the preamble to drawing, a space and time when one is in the chaos of thinking.” William Kentridge
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Lovely to be reminded of the Drawn to the Skyline walkshops that Andrew Stuck and I created. I still run walk.draw events, so do get in touch if you’re interested in one near you.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Fascinating episode on the neuroscience of walking, talking and creative thinking. Shane O’Mara, Professor of Experimental Brain Research, in conversation with Andrew Stuck @talkingwalking.bsky.social www.talkingwalking.net/shane-omara-...
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"Rivers are surprisingly difficult to measure, making this one of those questions to which there may be no right answer. And since I love those, let’s dive in." In search of the world's longest - and shortest - rivers
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How long is a piece of string? On the inherent uncertainty of rivers
A surprisingly complicated question.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I spent a morning sketching @coriniummuseum.bsky.social and the afternoon paddling in the River Eye at Salmonsbury - Greystones experimenting with ideas for drawings, using the flow of the river. More on this project soon.
Photos of us sketching in resource centre, surrounded by boxes. Screenshot from fb.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I’ll be talking about the making of my Puddle Worlds drawings at the Map Scramble 2 event on Wednesday @walklistencreate.org Look forward to maybe seeing some of you there.
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walk · listen · create @walklistencreate.org · 09/03/2026
Map Scramble!!! 🗺️ 😀 Walking artists share how and why they use maps to document their walking works. Image: Lucy Furlong Dates: 23, 25 and 26 March. Speakers, times, info: dlvr.it/TRNM88
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Fascinating insights into the creative process and artwork of Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke. A wonderful exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Oxford.
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THIS IS WHAT YOU GET EXHIBITION
A major retrospective exhibition exploring the visual art of Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke and the iconic images of Radiohead. Open until 18 Jan 2026.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Collectif Bonneau-Knight will be presenting some of their work at this month's WtL Last Tuesday Café. Let me know, or contact Walking the Land, if you’d like to join us online next week, Tues 25 Nov, and we can send you link and info walkingtheland.org.uk/last-tuesday...
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Last Tuesday Café – Walking The Land
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Walking and Drawing: A Wobbly Line, my latest artwork, a 4-min video with drawing and text, is now on my website blog with links to watch the video. Am looking forward to presenting it at 4WCoP #4WCoP2025 ruthbroadbent.com/drawing/walk...
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Walking and Drawing: A Wobbly Line - Ruth Broadbent
After walking and drawing tracks and lines for years, this line I now walk falters and wobbles, moves side to side, up and down. How do I negotiate this new way of propelling myself forwards and creat...
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Looking forward to presenting a new work, Walking and Drawing: A Wobbly Line at The Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography in Swansea on Saturday 11 October. Tickets are free and can be booked here if you’d like to join us at #4WCoP2025 www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-world-...
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4th World Congress of Psychogeography - Swansea
The 10th and final iteration of 4WCoP - a psychogeography festival exploring Swansea city centre in playful and discursive ways!
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Spending time by or in water seeps into my art, from puddles to rivers, sea, rain, snow, hail. For the UK River Summit exhibition on 8 July, I’ve selected drawings linking water in all its forms, as edges blur between land and rivers, rain, mist, and atmosphere. www.ruthbroadbent.com/uncategorize...
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Drawing Water, from puddles to rivers and sea - Ruth Broadbent
Spending time by or in water seeps into my artwork, from puddles to rivers and sea, rain, snow and hail storms. For the UK River Summit exhibition, I have selected a range of watery works to reflect t...
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
As I walk I draw, As I draw I walk. Walking a line for Line(s) of Enquiry exhibition & symposium. Words and drawn marks on paper flow seasonally, entwining movement, observations, sounds, conversations with memories of people, time, place. ruthbroadbent.com/uncategorize...
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As I walk I draw - Ruth Broadbent
As I walk I draw, As I draw I walk. Walking a line for Line(s) of Enquiry exhibition and symposium. Words and drawn marks on paper flow seasonally, entwining movement, observations, sounds and convers...
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I’ll be giving an artist talk and showing some of my artwork at art-sauce Oxford if any of you are in the area. Tues 17 June 6.30pm. Tickets & info here art-sauce.org/shop/p/qh482... @mothsailor.bsky.social
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17th June - Ruth Broadbent — art-sauce
Ruth Broadbent is an artist and lecturer based in Banbury. https://ruthbroadbent.com 17th June 2025 6:30 pm – 9pm at Magdalen Road Studios Ruth Broadbent’s creative practice is inspired by natur...
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Finding connections through water this week from re-reading rain chapter in Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer to listening to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Theory of Water. All resonate in different ways to my sensory approach to making artwork around water, seas, rivers, rain.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
For some inspiring rivers and water listening… Is a River Alive? An Interview with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on @emergencemagazine.bsky.social emergencemagazine.org/conversation...
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Is a River Alive? – with Robert Macfarlane
Listening for the voices of rivers, acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane finds himself in the depths of their mystery. Tracing his journeys with three willful waterways, he asks how we can remember rive...
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Looking forward to exhibiting some of my artwork and meeting lots of water people at The UK River Summit and Festival on 8 July. Info and tickets here: www.theriversummit.com
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Celebrating Rivers
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This looks good: nature drawing nature - online seminar, 3 and 4 April 2025 journals.ap2.pt/index.php/BB...
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nature drawing nature - online seminar, 3 and 4 April 2025 | BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching
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walk · listen · create @walklistencreate.org · 27/03/2025
Tonight! Live from Guimarães, Portugal, WALC 7 - join us to celebrate 1 year of WALC activities! Feat. a walk through of Babak Fakhamzadeh’s "In Loving Memory" exhibition @TheWalkingBody. dlvr.it/TJn5hd 19:00 Portugal/UK #walctogether #walc
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Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Great day today hearing about, talking about & doing some walking art. with discussion on collaboration & community connection, so-called liminal spaces, place-making, place-growing & place-guarding, with the fab #walkingtheland collective #walkingart #drawing #walkcreate
A paved area with plants growing in the cracks and a metal pole sticking up. Chalk writing labels one of the planets, mouse ear cress. An action following a walking recipe by the artist Claire collison
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
‘As I walk I draw (Moving Breath)’ and ‘As I walk I draw (Tracklines)’ - new works I’ve made for Line(s) of Enquiry. Exhibition continues for a few more days, until 27 March, at Hardwick Gallery, UoG, Cheltenham.
Pen nib drawing black lines on paper above a photo of handwritten words in black pen on a coil of long thin paper. Details from artwork by Ruth Broadbent.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Tickets now bookable for Line(s) of Enquiry symposium Fri 21 March. I’ll be walking, drawing and presenting work - look forward to seeing some of you there. Exhibition & symposium by Hardwick Gallery and Walking the Land artists (1/3) walkingtheland.org.uk/lines-of-enq...
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Line(s) of Enquiry Exhibition & Symposium 2025 – Walking The Land
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The moon in a microscope. A wonderful weekend of creative conversations, presentations and art at Growing Places / Walking the Land at Museum in the Park, Stroud. Thanks for inviting me to do a walk.draw workshop - what a great setting for it! Exhibition is still on if you near Stroud.
Close up of a plant root through circular lens of microscope with hint of a full moon circle appearing
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I’m doing a walk.draw for Growing Places at 11.30am Saturday 1 Feb if any of you are in the Stroud area. More info at walking the land and on walk.draw page of my website.
Poster with info on dates, times and qr code for more info
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Ice Puddle - a lucky Puddle World find whilst out walking, full of lines.
Lines in ice, transparent lines, etched lines, bubble lines, meandering lines, directional lines… so many different lines.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
‘The tactile experience of creative walking’ An article on my recent work, Fieldwalking - Groundlines, 72 drawings made whilst walking, shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2024 for walking art.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Puddle Worlds (ice) New Year walk
Ice on puddle with leaves, grass and twigs visible near surface
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Delighted that Fieldwalking - Groundlines is Shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2024 for walking art. Am enjoying reading about all the selected Walking Arts pieces @walklistencreate.org Congratulations to all on the list #WalkingArtists #WalkingArt #WalkDraw walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece...
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Fieldwalking – Groundlines
72 Groundlines drawings inspired by walking the landscape where a collection of flints have been found.
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walk · listen · create @walklistencreate.org · 02/12/2024
🏆 The Marŝarto Awards are back - celebrating the best in walking art! 🎨👣 We're proud to reveal the shortlist of 13 amazing finalists 🌍 Featuring artists from around the world. Check out their work here: dlvr.it/TGX6HM #WalkingArt #Marŝarto24 #ArtAwards
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It’s time for the Marŝarto24 shortlist
Celebrating the best in walking art!
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Looking forward to connecting with other #WalkingArtists as we find our feet on bluesky. Thanks for including me on the Walking Artist starter pack @talkingwalking.bsky.social
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Talking Walking is now on Bluesky - lots of interviews with walking artists. November episode just out with Fred Adam and Andrew Stuck @talkingwalking.bsky.social #WalkingArtists
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Couldn’t resist collecting some snow on my way into work today to use in drawing materials workshop ❄️
Close-up photo of snow with tufts of grass poking through.
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Last Tuesday Café 26 Nov 8pm. End of year wrap, review of our recent creative projects and ideas for 2025. A good one to join if you’ve not been before and would like to know more about Walking the Land. If you’d like to join us, dm your email for online link #walkingartists walkingtheland.org.uk
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Walking The Land
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Joanne Tatham @tathamjoanne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I made this contemporary art starter pack a couple of days ago. Sharing again for new followers and joiners. It’s currently UK-centric, with its outer parameters reflecting my own interests rather more than all the possibilities it could do. go.bsky.app/H6CKvTy
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Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk · 16/11/2024
To help new joiners find active accounts who are talking about the arts, we're creating a Starter Pack of people to follow, and we aren't alone... Here's a short thread - a Starter Pack of Starter Packs. go.bsky.app/R64pED1
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
New post on my website (link in bio) on Drawn Together exhibition: Seven Artists by the River Severn ruthbroadbent.com/exhibition/d...
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Drawn Together - Ruth Broadbent
For this exhibition, Drawn Together, I selected artworks with a connection to drawing breath. Some directly involve breath while others have a meditative quality in the slowness of their making. Many ...
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
DRAWN TOGETHER opens at The George Gallery Newnham on Severn 29 Oct - 2 Nov. Looking forward to spending a few days drawing, meditating and walking together. Pop in if you can. Drawn Together: Carolyn Black, Ruth Broadbent, Louise Bradley, Gillian Cooper, Annie Rapstoff, Penny Simons, Sarah Taylor
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
A day of water today, drawing Fe-Lines and listening in to Tate Modern ‘Waterways, Arteries and Kinship’ symposium (on now, livestream link is below), then Dark Ocean Issue 26 launch tonight with the Dark Mountain Project www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
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Waterways: Arteries, rhythms and kinship | Tate Modern
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Ruth Broadbent @ruthbroadbent.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Fieldwalking, flints and my 72 Groundlines drawings made whilst walking. More info on the making of it is now on my website. Exhibition at Corinium Museum for a few more days. 4 artists respond to flints found on Abbey Home Farm ruthbroadbent.com/groundlines/...
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Fieldwalking - Groundlines - Ruth Broadbent
72 drawings inspired by walking the landscape where many of the flints were discovered. Fieldwalking - Groundlines is in the exhibition, Field Walking, at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester, alongside...
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