Introductory keynote speech for the symposium ' Walking The Line: Drawing in Other Terrains'. This event orgainsed by Sarah Casey and Gerry Davies was the inaugural event for the Walking the Line research project, led by Casey and Davies at Lancaster. The symposium included an exhibition of project participant's work and invited presentations from Leo Duff, Lucy Lyons, Anna Lovatt, Jill Gibbon, Sian Bowen.