Milling round Millbank

A well-being walkshop with artist, architect and educator Colin Priest, exploring the objects, people and places of the local area around Millbank. Creative health sits at the centre of the walk: participants will use looking and noticing as tools for grounding, reflection and connection at the start of the day, drawing on the recognised benefits of arts-based and nature-connected activity for mental and physical wellbeing.

Over 60 minutes, the route will take in a sequence of local landmarks: Tate Britain, the Edwin Lutyens Grosvenor Housing Estate, Smith Square, and the area's pockets of green space, weaving formal architecture, civic history and quieter corners into a single walked itinerary. Gentle physical movement, shared attention and time outdoors combine to support mood, focus and a sense of belonging within the local environment.

Each participant receives an abecedarium aide-memoire, a hand-made A-Z companion piece that distils the walk's encounters into a small, keepable object. This object extends the creative health benefit of the walk beyond the hour itself, offering a tangible point of reflection and reconnection afterwards.

About Colin Priest:

Colin Priest is an artist, architect and educator, currently teaching on the MA Interior and Spatial Design, at Camberwell College of Arts (UAL). His interdisciplinary place-based research practice incorporates moving-image, installation, writing, archival material and wayfinding. Assembling found and made artefacts, media and narratives, public encounters gently rub fragments of time and space, manifesting as conversation, intervention, publication and gathering. His practice evolves around lively collaborative action and the continual negotiation of the built environment on a site-by-site basis. Location-led research seeks to underscore a sense of place, a shared responsibility toward material, the everyday and architectural heritage.

Places are limited to 15 participants.