Clare Qualmann

Qualmann's work uses a range of participatory methods to explore the routines and narratives of everyday life.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/whats-on/walking-women/|title=WALKING WOMEN - Events - Live Art Development Agency|website=Live Art Development Agency|access-date=2016-07-05}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.triarchypress.net/clare-qualmann.html|title=About Clare Qualmann|website=Triarchy Press|access-date=2016-07-05}} A large body of her work focuses on the practice of walking as a way to interrogate the familiarity of place{{Cite book|title=Histories and Practices of Live Art|last=Heddon|first=Deirdre|last2=Klein|first2=Jennie|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2012|isbn=978-0-230-22973-0|location=Houndsmill, Hampshire, UK|pages=92}} and has been described as “a kind of anti-dérive”.

Qualmann is a member of walkwalkwalk with Gail Burton and Serena Korda, who practice "'an archaeology of the familiar and forgotten," organising public walks through familiar places deemed marginal or overlooked.{{Cite journal|last=Heddon|first=Deirdre (Dee)|last2=Turner|first2=Cathy|date=2010-12-01|title=Walking Women: Interviews with artists on the move|journal=Performance Research|volume=15|issue=4|pages=14–22|doi=10.1080/13528165.2010.539873|issn=1352-8165|url=http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/40899/1/40899.pdf}}

As a solo artist Qualmann has further developed her walking practice. Qualmann is a founding member of the international Walking Artists Network, created in 2007.{{Cite web|url=http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH/J013765/1|title=Footwork – The Walking Artists Network as Mobile Community, Gateway to Research, RCUK Research Project Funding Abstract|last=RCUK|website=gtr.rcuk.ac.uk|access-date=2016-07-05}} Through the network Qualmann has organised numerous walking research events and exhibitions, including the Step by Step seminar series at the University of East London, the footwork research group,{{Cite web|url=https://footworkwalk.wordpress.com/|title=footwork|website=footwork|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-06}} and Where To? Towards the Future Steps of Walking at Falmouth University with Misha Myers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/whereto|title=Where to? Steps Towards the Future of Walking Arts Symposium {{!}} Falmouth - No 1 Arts University|website=www.falmouth.ac.uk|access-date=2016-07-06}}

• Collect Transform Repeat (2007) Michael West Gallery, Isle of Wight{{Cite book|title=Collect Transform Repeat|last=LeMoine|first=Elizabeth|last2=Qualmann|first2=Clare|last3=Skingle|first3=Susan|date=2006-10-27|publisher=Site Projects|isbn=9780955437908|location=London|language=English}}
• Spinning Stories (2008), with Emily Butterworth and The Woman’s Library{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2016/mar/08/from-washhouse-to-art-house-reinventing-humble-launderette|title=From washhouse to art house – reinventing the humble launderette|last=Khaleeli|first=Homa|date=2016-03-08|website=The Guardian|access-date=2016-07-05}}
• on the role of, and places associated, with laundry in women’s lives.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2013/05/my-beautiful-launderette|title=My beautiful launderette|website=New Statesmen|access-date=2016-07-06}}
• Untitled (Pencil on cotton handkerchief) (2009), Flash Company , Cecil Sharp House, London{{Cite web|url=http://www.cecilsharphouse.org/csh-exhibitions/past-exhibitions/1295-csh-flashcompany|title=Flash Company|access-date=2016-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807043738/http://www.cecilsharphouse.org/csh-exhibitions/past-exhibitions/1295-csh-flashcompany|archive-date=2016-08-07|url-status=dead}}
• Perambulator (2014), Deveron Arts Walking Institute, Huntly{{Cite web|url=http://www.deveron-arts.com/perambulator/|title=Clare Qualmann: Perambulator|website=Deveron Arts|access-date=2016-07-05}}
• East End Jam (2015), Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London Legacy Development Corporation{{Cite web|url=https://en-gb.fievent.com/e/breaking-the-bounds-walking-london-and-beyond-on-the-radio/2199338|title=Breaking the Bounds: Walking London and Beyond (on the radio) {{!}} Fievent.com|last=Fievent.com|website=Fievent.com|language=en|access-date=2016-07-06}}
• Chinese Whispers (2015), part of Exeter University’s Gossip and Nonsense.{{Cite web|url=http://gossipandnonsense.exeter.ac.uk/author/clare/|title=Gossip and Nonsense Clare Qualmann|website=gossipandnonsense.exeter.ac.uk|access-date=2016-07-05}}

• Chip Shop Tour of E8 (2007), E8- The Heart of Hackney, Transition Gallery, London{{Cite web|url=http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/e8/e8_pr.htm|title=E8 - The Heart of Hackney|website=www.transitiongallery.co.uk|access-date=2016-07-06}}
• Nightwalks (2008), Stories from the Exeter Archive{{Cite book|title=Walkwalkwalk: Stories from the Exeter Archive|last=Burton|first=Gail|last2=Korda|first2=Serena|last3=Qualmann|first3=Clare|date=2009-07-10|publisher=Site Projects|isbn=9780955437946}}
• walk walk walk (2013), Walk On: 40 Years of Walking, Pitshangar Manor Gallery, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, mac Birmingham, Plymouth City Museum and Gallery{{Cite book|title=Walk On. From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff - 40 Years of Art Walking|last=Morrison-Bell|first=Cynthia|last2=Collier|first2=Mike|last3=Ingold|first3=Tim|last4=Robinson|first4=Alistair|publisher=Art Editions North|year=2013|isbn=978-1-906-832-08-7|location=University of Sunderland|pages=116}}
• walk walk walk: stories from the Bethnal Green archive (2010), a permanent installation in the Bethnal Green Old Town Hall.

• Clare Qualmann and Claire Hind (eds.) (2015) Ways to Wander. Axminster: Triarchy.
• Gail Burton, Serena Korda, and Clare Qualmann (2009) Walkwalkwalk: Stories from the Exeter Archive. London: Site Projects.
• Elizabeth LeMoine, Clare Qualmann and Susan Skingle (2006) Collect Transform Repeat. London: Site Projects.

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