Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Lubaina Himid CBE RA
Between the Two my Heart is Balanced (1991)
Tate
© Lubaina Himid, courtesy the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London
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Planes, trains and automobiles
Concorde L449-15
Wolfgang Tillmans
1997
[no title]
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
1967
Hommage à Chrysler Corp.
Richard Hamilton
1957
Tram on Westminster Bridge
Rene Groebli
1949, printed later
Concentric Bearings B
Vija Celmins
1984
Cars?
Julian Opie
1998–9
King’s Cross Station, London
Wolfgang Suschitzky
1941
Red Arrow Bus
Gerd Winner
1970
This Day
Akram Zaatari
2003
Car Wash
Hilary Lloyd
2005
Airport
Carol Rhodes
1995
French Engine
Albany Wiseman
1972
Locomotive Wheel
György Kepes
c.1939–40
Expeditions and maps
United Kingdom
Layla Curtis
1999
Escaped Animals
Julian Opie
2002
Water, Selected
Roni Horn
2007
Ithaca Mirror Trail, Ithaca, New York
Robert Smithson
1969
The North-West Passage
Sir John Everett Millais, Bt
1874
A Journey that wasn’t
Pierre Huyghe
2005
Lost
Kathy Prendergast
1999
The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson
The Hon. John Collier
exhibited 1881
A Hundred Mile Walk
Richard Long CBE
1971–2
On your bike
B.S.A. Tour of Britain Racer Enlarged to 135%
Elizabeth Wright
1996–7
Joseph Beuys, ‘is it about a bycicle?’
Joseph Beuys
1985
Tokyo-jin
Yutaka Takanashi
1974, printed 2012
Cycle Racing
Ronald Glendening
c.1956
Five-Man Pedersen (Prototype No.1)
Simon Starling
2003
Michael Balling Up Old Net
Laetitia Yhap
1984
Outside Kampala
Julian Trevelyan
1966
Photograph of an unidentified boy playing with bicycle parts
Nigel Henderson
[c.1949–c.1956]
Colour photograph of the shadow of a bicycle on the pavement
Prunella Clough
[1990s]
Take a walk
A Line Made by Walking
Richard Long CBE
1967
Performance Still
Mona Hatoum
1985–95
Gamma
Jane and Louise Wilson
1999
The Commuters
Francis Alÿs
2005
Laundromat-Locomotion (Walking in Suit)
Steven Pippin
1997
Walking Dream with Four Foot Clamp
Jim Dine
1965
The Walking Man Diary
Ian Breakwell
1975–8
Marching Figures
William Turnbull
1953
Julian Trevelyan
Canal Holidays (1975)
Tate
It's very important for inspiration to go elsewhere: to move away from the city into pastoral settings, and to make space for meditation.
Artists on holiday
Feet on Holiday I
Henry Moore OM, CH
1979
The Last Resort 40
Martin Parr CBE
1983–6, printed 2018
Incidents 025
Henry Wessel
2012
Black Mirror
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1947, printed later
St Ives Beach
Merlyn Oliver Evans
1973
from The Pleasure Principle
Chris Steele-Perkins
1980–9
Untitled
David Wojnarowicz
1988
Study for ‘The Seaside’
William Roberts
c.1965–6
Memory
Daido Moriyama
2012
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 1967
René Burri
1967, printed 2014
Couple eating fish and chips, Whitley Bay, Tyneside
Chris Killip
1976, printed 2010
Photograph of Mollie Gordon sunbathing by the pool in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife
Eileen Agar
1952–6
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
Tracey Emin
Monument Valley (Grand Scale) (1995–7)
Tate
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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Land art
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Psychogeography
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Journeys Coursework Guide
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