About Us

Stuart Butler

Stuart Butler

Poet, Performer, Writer, Walker, Teacher & Historian

Email: stfc12@hotmail.com

www.radicalstroud.co.uk

www.facebook.com/stuart.butler.3511

www.twitter.com/StuartB18260154

Angela Findlay

Angela Findlay

Artist, writer, public speaker and only living resident of Stroud Cemetery. Interested in remembering what history forgot.

www.angelafindlaytalks.com

Bob Fry

Bob Fry

Rural and urban flâneur. Psychogeographer & photographer.

Jon Seagrave aka Jonny Fluffypunk

Jon Seagrave aka Jonny Fluffypunk

Lo-fi performer, explorer and analogue fundamentalist. Has fathered two children and repaired a bicycle with a piece of kitchen cutlery.
Who are we and what do we do and how can you contact us?

We run Radical Stroud as a collective, with walks on the third Friday of each month. We encourage contributions and responses to the landscape in a variety of forms – although we do have some form of guiding principles. Such as:

Guiding Principles:

Thoughts derived from a reading of
Creating Memorials Building Identities The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic
(Alan Price Liverpool University Press 2012)

Doors of No Return

Historic, documented, liminal places,
Not gone with the wind, but both visible and invisible,
Spaces and places in the Stroudwater hills and valleys
With messages and mementoes from a riotous past,
Open doors to the truth –

A counter-narrative:

“A performative counter-narrative … a ‘guerrilla memory’”,
“Lieux de memoire, sites of history, torn away from the moment of history”
(Pierre Nora),
Memorialisation that moves beyond the empirical,
The documented, the evidenced and the historical,
To a counter-heritage, a counter-memorialisation…
For further reinterpretations,
And re-imaginings,
As we move art and monument
From object to process,
And from ‘noun to verb’,
As we create new museums of the past, present and future,
As we traverse the hedgerows of Psychogeography …

Or in a nutshell:

Performative Walking: Counter-Heritage

Beyond the Empirical:
Beyond the Documented:
Guerrilla Memorialisation.

My name is Stuart Butler: ‘Poet, Performer, Writer, Walker, Teacher & Historian’.

Email: stfc12@hotmail.com

www.radicalstroud.co.uk

www.facebook.com/stuart.butler.3511

www.twitter.com/StuartB18260154

Contributions for considered publication should be sent to stfc12@hotmail.com

Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts

Photographer, designer and curator.

www.deborahroberts.biz

Andrew Budd

Andrew Budd

Shrodinger’s Explorer, knowing exactly where he is, but simultaneously lost. His main source of exercise being jumping to conclusions.

www.fredslattern.wordpress.com

www.andrewbudd.blogspot.com

www.justgiving.com/planetfrank

Robin Treefellow

Robin Treefellow

Poet, ambling antiquarian, writer, jam maker and explorer of England’s Anglo Saxon, Roman, Prehistoric and medieval past. He invokes the names of pagan deities to help his vegetables grow.

www.stroudwalking.wordpress.com