Artist Ruby Wallis will lead a night walk through Dublin city, focusing on the figure of the flâneuse – a subversive imaginative explorer, who wanders the city according to her own desire. Participants will be invited to engage with psychogeography and ways to reimagine the urban landscape through a feminist lens. Each urban walker will be invited to respond to the overlooked spaces of the city and create images of plant life, trees, and pathways. The group will create a body of images to address an urgent need for safety and a reimagining of the city through a female gaze.

(Photographs will be taken using basic smartphone cameras)

Meeting Point: Eileen McLoughlin Park (also known as LIberty Park)

Ruby Wallis is a visual artist who works with lens-based media, she lectures at The Burren College of Art. In 2022 Wallis published the Photobook A Woman Walks Alone at Night with a Camera in collaboration with writer, Phillina Sun. Selected exhibitions include The Lab, Photomuseum Ireland, The Hugh Lane Gallery, PhotoIreland Festival, BX Gallery, The Dock, Vondelbunker: Amsterdam, The TULCA, Perlman Teaching Museum, and Solas Nua, USA. Selected publications include The Journal of Artistic Research, The New Yorker magazine, British Journal of Photography, and Winter Papers vol.6 and 7. Her work is held in collections at Rochester Art Centre, USA, and the National University of Ireland. She is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland and the Galway City Council.

Presented by Brigit 2023: Dublin City Celebrating Women, a Dublin City Council initiative.