Desire Lines

Emily Wilkinson
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Desire Lines is a podcast created for creative minds and curious souls, hosted by Emily Wilkinson. The themes explored in this podcast are wide-ranging, including environment, arts practice, geography, walking, the body, well-being, health, diversity, neurodivergence, belonging, and more. Instagram @desirelinespodcast https://emilywilkinson.substack.com/podcast www.emilywilkinson.net Donations: https://ko-fi.com/emilywilkinson

  1. 18/11/2025

    Interlude: The Space Between

    Hi friends. This is a short interlude from me, Emily Wilkinson, creator and producer of Desire Lines Podcast. You may have noticed that things went a bit quiet afterseries one. Desire Lines is a slow media project, and we’ve been taking a break before bringing you another series of creative conversations.  Series one saw some truly magical exchanges take place, andwe have some great guests lined up already for series two. These include writer and Wild Muse Prize creator Gabriela Blandy, Independent Nation builder and musicianScott Roe, and trauma-informed strength coach Jo Hazell Watkins. We’ll also be featuring some walking interludes, recorded outdoors. That’s it for now, We look forward to bringing you moreepisodes of Desire Lines soon. Stay tuned.

    1 min

  2. 17/07/2025

    Walking as Storytelling: Walkspace West Midlands

    Walkspace (walkspace.uk) is a West Midlands-based co-operative of artists, writers, psychogeographers, photographers, creative practitioners and walkers. Walkspace exists to bring together artists and creative practitioners in the region who use walking as part of their practice. We aim to create a community of mutual support and collaboration, working as a co-operative collective to support the creation of new work. In this episode, Emily speaks with fellow Walkspace members Rachel Henaghan and Andy Howlett on the theme of walking as storytelling. Links Full transcript available here: https://share.descript.com/view/lMW6F2jYtMx https://walkspace.uk/ Instagram @walkspacewm https://www.rachelhenaghan.co.uk/ https://andyhowlett.co.uk/ https://emilywilkinson.net/

    42 min

  3. 23/06/2025

    Divergent Futures: In conversation with ...kruse

    ...kruse is a neurodivergent, autistic creative based in Herefordshire UK, who makes work exploring relationships to landscape, the natural world and to each other. They explore what is unseen, the ephemeral, transient and ever changing. Kruse write about the solitaries, the hermits and wanderers and those who see the world sideways. They also work as a mentor for neurodivergent artists. Episode transcript here: https://share.descript.com/view/TkaYUZQAl1w References https://www.krusework.info/ Directionsgreat film (part of Pathwalking residency for Vital Capacities) AuTCRONE Repository: https://autcrone.blogspot.com/ https://www.instagram.com/___kruse/ https://www.lonewomeninflashesofwilderness.com/

    34 min

  4. 09/06/2025

    Tanya Raabe Webber on Art and Inclusion

    Tanya Raabe Webber is a visual artist and self-defined disabled creative. She is a disability arts activist and artistic director for UK charity Sense. In this episode, Tanya and Emily talk access, landscape and sensory practice. Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/yE2XuXazbsb https://www.tanyaraabewebber.comhttps://www.instagram.com/tanyasartstudioshttp://www.facebook.com/tanya.raabe

    24 min

  5. 21/05/2025

    Beneath Our Feet: In Conversation with Ruth Cato

    Ruth is a shamanic practitioner and soul guide working with nature, spirits, metaphor, and healing. She is very interested in these changing times we are living in, and evolving trauma-based narratives into positive futures. In this episode, Emily and Ruth talk grounded spiritual practice, land, creativity, gender expression, ancestry and languaging a new earth. Episode transcript available here: https://share.descript.com/view/hBHA96K3yTx Links and references https://www.ruthcato.com Instagram @shamanicpriestess Interlude Music by Jenny Wilde Knight Intro/Outro music by Richard Boxley Staying Alive by Vandana Shiva The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (documentary) The Death of Nature and Earthcare by Carolyn Merchant Weathering by Ruth Allen Val Plumwood, Starhawk, Rachel Carson The Frailty Myth by Colette Dowling Jane Hardwicke Collins Jo Hazell Watkins @jo_somaspace Rosie Knowles (podcast) Metal Britannia (documentary)

    56 min

  6. 21/04/2025

    Sensing Simplicity: Interdisciplinary Spaces with Aaron Lelito

    In this episode, Emily speaks with Aaron Lelito about interdisciplinary space, multisensory creative practice and cultivating simplicity. Aaron is an editor, writer, and visual artist from Buffalo, New York, US. He founded the art and literature publication Wild Roof Journal in 2020 and serves as Editor in Chief. His poetry chapbook, The Half Turn, was published in 2023, and he released a collaborative notebook/art collection titled If We: Connections Through Creative Process in 2024. His work has also appeared in Stonecoast Review, Barzakh, Eavesdrop Magazine, SPECTRA Poets, Peach Mag, and Santa Fe Review. He is a freelance editor, certified meditation teacher, and English educator.  A transcript of this episode is available here. Visit the Wild Rood substack to subscribe and find submission details for upcoming issues. An outline of Aaron's editing services is also available on the Wild Roof Journal website. Website: wildroofjournal.com Substack: wildroofjournal.substack.com IG: @wildroofjournal / @aaronlelito https://aaronlelito.com Walking by Thoreau Looby Macnamara ⁠Silo City project⁠ Films: Wild (2014) and Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

    40 min

  7. 06/04/2025

    Jonathon Stalls on Walking as Empathy

    Jonathon Stalls (he, his) is a Multidisciplinary Walking Artist with Intrinsic Paths. In 2010, he walked for 242 days across the U.S. and has continued to move alongside a wide variety of people and landscapes ever since. His creative work involves ink drawing, creative writing, the Pedestrian Dignity project, walk leader training with Walk2Connect (a program of America Walks), facilitating mindfulness practices, and more. He is the author of WALK - Slow Down, Wake Up & Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour (North Atlantic Books, Aug 2022). He attended the Living School for Action and Contemplation from 2015-2017 and resides in Poncha Springs, Colorado with his husband, Ben. Find a transcript of this episode online here. Jonathon's website: www.intrinsicpaths.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intrinsicpaths WALK - Slow Down, Wake Up & Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour (North Atlantic Books, 2022) Pedestrian Dignity on Substack: https://substack.com/@pedestriandignity Walk2Connect Program with America Walks: https://americawalks.org/programs/walk2connect/ Instagram: @JonathonStalls @IntrinsicPaths @PedestrianDignity Blue Sky: @JonathonStalls @PedestrianDignity & Tiktok: @IntrinsicPaths LinkedIn: Jonathon Stalls Rural Women Walking and Waiting by Tara Patricia Cookson (https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.49.d) The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May In Praise of Walking by Shane O'Mara Follow Desire Lines on Instagram @desirelinespodcast Emily Wilkinson on Instagram @emily.f.wilkinson www.emilywilkinson.net

    1h 3m

  8. 22/03/2025

    Midlands to Margins: Jamila Walker

    Jamila is a multidisciplinary visual artist based inShropshire, UK. Jamila creates bodies of work which raise questions about her role in the world, as an artist, woman, and more. Jamila's passions lie within narrative and layers. Her practice uses found objects and demonstrates afascination with minutiae of the everyday. As an experienced arts facilitator, Jamila often works in community settings, museums, galleries and arts for health. In this episode, Emily and Jamila talk about creative practice, shifting from the UK midlands to the Welsh-English borderlands, rural/urban contrasts, mobility, belonging in the landscape and more. Links & references Instagram @jamila_artist https://www.jamilawalkervisualartist.co.uk https://switchmidlands.com Journeys poetry & art booklet (for Switch Project) Find a transcript of this episode here.

    45 min
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Desire Lines is a podcast created for creative minds and curious souls, hosted by Emily Wilkinson. The themes explored in this podcast are wide-ranging, including environment, arts practice, geography, walking, the body, well-being, health, diversity, neurodivergence, belonging, and more. Instagram @desirelinespodcast https://emilywilkinson.substack.com/podcast www.emilywilkinson.net Donations: https://ko-fi.com/emilywilkinson

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