Take me to the moon I recently went on a day trip to Margate specifically to go and see before it finished the Katie Paterson and JMW Turner ‘A place that exists only in moonlight’ exhibition at the Turner Contemporary. […]
On May 1st and 2nd 2019 I take part in the next major Fruit Routes event at Loughborough University. I’ve been working on Fruit Routes with artist activist Anne-Marie Culhane who conceived and has led Fruit Routes since it’s inception […]
This project is still very much in its infancy. So far, it has taken us through some fascinating portals, and we have yet to return — this being more of a postcard home, than a final account. By being able […]
Through using VR and AR to trace the boundaries between the past and our present, we began to explore the ways our own narratives are shaped, and changed, by the spaces around us, mapping our real and virtual journey through […]
We chose Orkney because, it is a landscape of narratives, both natural and human-made. From the ever-changing shape of the islands themselves, to the tangible presence of multiple World Heritage neolithic sites such as the imposing Standing Stones of Stenness, […]
“…part of what I am is the enigmatic traces of others…” (Judith Butler)
Yesterday was our participative poetry event on the Penistone Line for National Poetry Day. We had a great time reading out all the poems we had sent us, some of our own and some classics from the National Poetry Day […]
Vanessa and I ran a workshop at the Live Art Cafe at Creative Recovery Barnsley last night. we sourced some discarded magazine, leaflets and train time tables, bought some A4 card, glue and scissors and printed the word CHANGE several […]
Exciting news! We are collaborating with Creative Recovery Barnsley to produce an event on the Penistone Line for National Poetry Day: Interchange Thursday 4 October 13:12-14:28 Huddersfield to Sheffield 14:35-15:50 Sheffield to Huddersfield Interchange: Participative Poetry on the Penistone Line […]
We took the kids to YSP yesterday and upstairs in the chapel overlooking Chiharo Shiota’s installation is a small book on silence. The kids’ bags provided in the gallery also contain ear defenders for blocking out sound whilst creating sculptures […]
I do love a dictionary/glossary definition and this is from Wikipedia’s Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms Chord: A curve connecting two otherwise-unconnected rail lines that lie at tangents to that curve (Usually both lines are straight, one being at […]
So here we have a walk in Seasalter (not Margate) in the middle of February, not a gallery in sight. Pushing boundaries with Walking with The Waste Land #icanconnect. A Photo diary of our walk, with some commentary: http://elspethpenfold.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/walking-with-waste-land-photo-diary-mud.html […]
I have been experimenting with how to document these walks. Here is the latest version. Let me know your thoughts! Postcards from the Waste Land A virtual Walk
