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Clare Qualmann
@cqualmann.bsky.social
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Artist, walker, lecturer, library-lover, urban forager, drawing every day. Co-editor Lines of Desire at Living Maps, co-founder walking artists network
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Dug a hole, planted a little tree in it. So warm for November, but hoping it settles in well over the winter (it's a mulberry, will prune to keep it bushy)
A large hole in a small garden with a hedge of jasmine and honeysuckle behind it. A spade with a blue handle is stuck in a heap of soil
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Love my borough, #hackney and it's flag waving response. Celebrating black history season, and standing against racism, hate and division. #UnityinDiversity #BlackHistoryMonth @hackneycvs.bsky.social
A tree full of the flags of African and Caribbean nations
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Beautiful haul of peaches from the free shop* yesterday. #LoveFoodHateWaste #Hackney #UrbanGleaning #BinDipping #DumpsterDiving *bin
A rectangular white sink full of peaches floating in water.
October 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Laughing out loud with my kids seeing this sign 'amendment'. Building 'plot' for sale £700k +... (It's a tiny scrap of land in between two houses). Welcome to London E8 🥴
A sign that said building plot for sale where the word plot has been edited to say plop instead, and a poo emoji has been drawn next to it. It also says with planning consent for 3 bedroom house, principles only. Offers over £700k all enquiries email Navarinoe8@gmail.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Today's car free adventure, taking a load of stuff to sell on the neighbourhood jumble sale trail #carfree #hackney #cycling #urbantravel 🚶‍♀️🌇🚴
A bike trailer loaded up full of boxes, bags and with a tray of plants on top
September 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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London folks! 2 upcoming walks on 5th and 6th September as part of #UEL's creative industries festival (check out the whole programme) in collaboration with youth guides from #TheLine both free, but book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-i...
A green left background with yellow text that says walk/create along the long. Art, heritage and nature, Saturday 6th September 10am free a picture of the walkbook with a red cover and logos for uel, the line and Newham heritage month An image of docks with high rise buildings in the background and the text walk/create dockside from uel to art in the docks Friday 5th September at 12.30pm free and the logos of the line, uel and Newham heritage month
August 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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A beautiful day of plums: picking them, eating them, pickling them, jamming them communally. #hackney #UrbanForaging #communitygarden #EastEndJam 🚶‍♀️🌇🌱
Three large bowls of plums, yellow, red and purple
July 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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No fruit in the flat this morning, so I nipped out and gathered some plums! That's how brilliant living in hackney (pretty central-ish London) is #UrbanForaging #FreeFood #Hackney 🚶‍♀️🌇🍎🌱
A plum tree with green foliage and small purple plums A purple plum on the ground A tub with little red plums and plum stones
July 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Brilliant introductory day with #TheLine youth guides, introducing #WalkingArt and #CreativeWalking along the public sculpture trail through royal docks and Greenwich. Can't wait to work with them again tomorrow, & through the summer 🚶‍♀️🌇
A table with a copy of the walkbook, recipes for walking and wellbeing, and the line map, along with small squares of paper with texture rubbings on them A person writing in chalk on a wooden balustrade with the London cable car and the river Thames in the background
July 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The 'encounters' are hosted by the University of Western Macedonia, who have an artistic research station in the village of Psarades. With Clementine Butler-Gallie and Athanasia Tziona I curated a strand of the encounters with & for children.
Children gathered around a table drawing and painting bear related imagery after a walk exploring human-bear relations, and a visit to see a bear skeleton found in the forest near the village.
July 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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An extraordinary place; bears, wolves & lynx in the forests, Dalmatian pelicans on the lake. Medieval cave churches dotted around the lake with beautiful painted interiors, reachable only by boat. borders with Albania & North Macedonia are hard, with locals careful not to cross the water boundaries.
The painted interior of a cave church, with Byzantine style figure of Christ surrounded by angels
July 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Such a privilege to spend time by lake Prespa last week, taking part in the international #WalkingArt encounters. Shocking to see how much the lake has receded since my first visit in 2019.
A lake scene with forested hills in the background and a boat on the water with a giant puppet in it. In the foreground the lake shore with white rocks and green plants.
July 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The poly tunnel at the community garden is looking amazing. The tomatoes grew a foot last week 🌱🌇🌞 #UrbanFood #CommunityGrowing #GardenOfEarthlyDelights
A poly tunnel with tomato plants growing almost to the top, lush green with red and yellow nasturtium flowers
June 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Solstice greetings from the sunrise gathering on hackney marshes #WeDon'tKnowWhatThisIs
People gathered on a grassy field with the sun rising behind trees, long shadows cast by the light
June 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Brilliant to experience #JeremyDeller's #AcidBrass at earth hackney last night. I've loved this art work since I first heard about it 25 years ago. Particularly joyful as I was a teen who both played in a brass band AND danced to acid house 💫 reenactment by #thelisteningproject
A brass band on stage at earth hackney with Jeremy deleted hand drawn diagram connecting acid house and brass bands protected on a screen behind them
June 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Brilliant Massive Attack performance/protest/manifesto at lido festival last night, in collaboration with @pscupdates.bsky.social beautiful, devastating, spellbinding 💫
A brightly lit stage with white light pouring out into the dark. Two large screens on either side of the stage show the singer Elizabeth Fraser. Palestinian flags wave in front of the stage.
June 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The brilliant Saira Naizi launching her 'renegade guides' project #RabbitsRoadPress this evening. Loved hearing about the research behind this new book 🚶‍♀️🌇 www.livinglondon.org/renegade-gui...
A woman with long dark hair standing in front of a screen displaying the words 'renegade guides' with a stained glass window in the background
May 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Had a great #CreativeWalk with UEL colleagues yesterday. We tried a walk 'recipe' devised by a participant in my creative walking for wellbeing staff development session. Beautiful to get out, explore West Ham park & meet the trees 🚶‍♀️🌇🌱 #walkcreate #walkingwellbeing #arts&health
A split image with a person holding a gingko leaf against their hand on one side, and a very large monkey puzzle tree on the other side. In the middle is a red book title the walkbook recipes for walking and wellbeing
May 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Amidst the global horrors, the final cohort of the degree course I led for a good chunk of years performed a beautiful show today, inspired by Samantha Harvey's Orbital. Well proud of them, & of the team who created & delivered a brilliant curriculum together. #EndOfAnEra #DramaAppliedTheatre #UKHE
Five people lit in glowing orange standing in front of a screen with the earth viewed from space projected on it. They are wearing white boiler suits. One is using a wheelchair, and one holds a walking stick.
May 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Beautiful venue for #walkingwomen conference, the #Warburg house in Hamburg is stunning. Looking forward to papers today on walking & activism, walking on screen, & post colonial perspectives on walking
The exterior of the Warburg house in Hamburg, a dark brick facade with large square windows and the letters kbw across the frontage. The reading room in the Warburg house, a circular wood paneled room with a large white circular skylight and long windows looking out over green gardens. People are standing and sitting in the space, and a lectern with presentation screen is behind them
March 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Getting ready for a nightwalk in Hamburg next week with the wonderful @deeheddon.bsky.social for the 'walking women new perspectives' conference with @sandradinter.bsky.social. Just working on draft layouts for our guide 🌇🚶‍♀️🌌
A folded page, black with pale text that says nightwalk on it, along with symbols of the moon's phases and the constellations Andromeda and Cassiopeia A folded page with a moon textured background dotted with large words including darkness, fear, awe, agency, freedom and danger. And smaller text quotes from women writing about walking at night
March 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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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
March 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Mega haul of fruit & veg today from Broadway market. Hard to believe this just gets dumped in landfill. After sorting about 15 kg of edible food, maybe 3 kg went in the compost @london.gov.uk @zoegarbett.bsky.social would be great to work on this? #lovefoodhatewaste #urgangleaning #bindipping🚶‍♀️🌇💚
A table laid with red chillis, broccoli, potatoes, kale, cucumbers, ginger, sweet potato, red cabbage, artichokes and Pak choi
March 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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beautiful misty views crossing the river lea in the Olympic park today 🌇 🚴 either side of the river was already bright blue sky, the mist just hung above it #cycling #commute #London
The sun shining white through a thick misty sky above silhouettes of trees. The striped surface of a bridge in the foreground with metal railings and the river below. Trees are reflected in the surface of the water
March 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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The garden is a meanwhile space and we were working with a year-at-a-time lease (not great for gardening!) but just got given 3 years, opening the door to much better opportunities for planning & development 🚶‍♀️🌆🌱🧵https://shorturl.at/K92tG
Compost crew turning a steaming pile of compost in the dark, lit dramatically by bike light with a chain link fence on the background
February 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM