Just days before lockdown in 2020, I walked 19 miles through the southern suburbs of Paris, exploring everyday neighbourhoods beyond the tourist centre.
Walking reveals the hidden stories of cities.
Read more: www.thepublicartcompany.co.uk/trail-design...
Wandering down memory lane today, seven years ago we were just launching the Colchester Digital Conference - I never imagined I would end up the director of an environmental CIC based in London within a couple of years!🙂🌳
🌳 Urban Tree Festival 2026 – Open Call for Events 🌳
Got an idea for a tree walk, creative workshop, webinar, wellbeing session or community nature event?
In 2025 we hosted dawn chorus walks, forest bathing, art workshops, expert talks, family activities & more.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/5c7whun9
Doing some research for my ‘Jetty’ art installation for the @nationaltrust.org.uk - Essex this morning…🦢#publicart
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Out on site yesterday with my team picking up the first load of oak we are recycling for my public art installation on Northey Island… the space has been cleared of some invasive laylandii, and we are planning a mixed wildflower meadow around the installation! 🌸🌳
Building Urban Tree Festival 2026 (9–17 May, London) 🌳
We’re opening conversations with a small number of partners who care about urban nature, wellbeing and creative, community-led impact. The festival only happens through collaboration help us shape the next one now!
👉 📷 Images: Black Girls Hike
We’re currently seeking local funding partners to help deliver Urban Tree Festival 2026 (9–17 May, London) 🌳 If your organisation supports community wellbeing, culture or the environment, we’d love to talk! ❤️ 🌳
Find out more: urbantreefestival.org
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Our Community 🌳
One of the best parts of running the Urban Tree Festival is our student internship programme!
Each year, up to five students from Goldsmiths join us to follow the full festival journey, from concept and branding through to delivery and evaluation.
Not every project gets chosen. 🫙
This was a proposal built around glass, weathering and time – I loved the idea that it would slowly change in the salt air and become part of the landscape.
In the end, health and safety won.
Still a beautiful idea.
Looking through the archives today and rediscovering some old land-art ideas. This was an unchosen concept for a ground-based artwork – a geoglyph cut into the landscape. Good ideas don’t expire – they just wait for the right place!
#landart #publicart #commissionedartist
I deliver fast, practical sign and wayfinding audits for councils & public bodies to propose improvments for visitor arrival, access and flow. Planning upgrades to signage this year? Join me for a short one-off strategy session to discuss:
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Learning about the reimagining of this remnant of communist architecture - Reviving the Pyramid of Tirana: Landscape Design to build Curiosity, Culture, and Community with Guust Selhorst #walk21tirana
Thrilled to share my latest installation for @nationaltrust.org.uk – Essex has planning and is underway!
This sculptural piece on Northey Island explores sea-level rise.
More behind-the-scenes updates coming soon…
🔗 www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/news/2548857...
Free parking right outside, lift (if it’s working!) Nearest train station Charlton. Nearest bus stop Greenwich Royal Trust School.
One Day - All Free - All Welcome
Saturday 13 September 2025
We warmly invite the local community and all art enthusiasts to explore our spaces. Inside our buildings, you'll find hundreds of talented local artists and innovative creative businesses utilising our studios and facilities every day!
I’m doing a talk today at Goldsmiths, University of London. 🙂
@urbantreefest.bsky.social some nice trees here too!
Explore the story of London's historic plane tree and its relationship with its urban surroundings. Also on Saturday, 17th May.
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Join us early on day one in Plymouth and experience the symphony of bird songs as the new day emerges in Central Park! Starts at 5.00am early birds only! 🐦
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We’re back! Urban Tree Festival 2025 is here to celebrate the trees that shape our cities.
Join us for walks, talks, art, and more—exploring the stories rooted in our urban forest.
Tickets now open: urbantreefestival.org/the-programm...
#UrbanTreeFestival
We’ve got 26 events now live and ready to book!🌳 There’s something for everyone — happening all across the country. Two are in Hampstead, London (one of my absolute favourite spots!)
📸 Image: Ciaran Iivanovic
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We’re flying through Day One — a third of tickets already gone live! 🪴
Walks & workshops fill fast, so don’t wait. 👀 And psst… our headline stars drop soon 👀✨
Check back often so you don’t miss the magic! 🌳
#FestivalLaunch #DontMissOut #LearnDiscoverEnjoy
🎉 We’re OFF! First booking just landed for our Leeds Spring Open Day - we’re buzzing! 💐✨
🔥 Daily drops start now, so keep an eye out - spots go fast!🎯 Kicking off with sponsored events for City of London residents. Locals, this is your moment! 🏃♀️💨
@cityoflondon @LeedsCC_News
Time is running out to raise £5,000! The Big Give Challenge for the Urban Tree Festival ends at midnight tonight – there is £2,500 in match funding available – please help us unlock this – so far we've raised £2116, help us push it over the line!
Donate here: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
First day of spring, #worldfrogday and #blossomwatch… what a fantastic day! 🌞🐸🌸 If you’re feeling the joys of spring please donate to the Urban Tree Festival, we have one day left tomorrow to get all your donations doubled! 🌳Donate here: bit.ly/3DMWu9a
Any donation large or small will help us deliver the Urban Tree Festival 2025! Big Give doubles your contribution, closes this Friday!🌳 bit.ly/3DMWu9a
📢 Attention community leaders, artists & educators! The Urban Tree Festival 2025 is seeking event proposals that explore our theme: "Discovering Urban Trees." Whether it's a workshop, walk, or creative project, submit your event by 21st March, apply here: urbantreefestival.org/submit-your-...
The 2025 Urban Tree Festival is now open for submissions!
Our theme is 'Discovering Urban Trees' inspired by The London Tree Ring project. Submissions will be accepted via on-line form, more info here:
urbantreefestival.org/submit-your-...
@cprelondon.bsky.social #WoodlandTrust #treemusketeers
Like it, ‘more human than human!’
