Looking into connections between autobiographical memory and clothing, linking art and science through research and material investigation.
Image: Untitled (STB), 2011, plaster, 30 x 12.5 x 9.5 cm (cast of inside of clothing)
DEVELOPMENTS #ThreadandWord So ideas and events from the walk last March have developed in many different ways. Quipucamayocs I have been busy in the studio making ‘Quipucamayocs’, a series of artefacts using the ropes knotted by the walkers […]
What does it mean to have all the colours available to you as an artist? We just can click and order, browse wondrous shops full of pigments or go onto our devices and swipe, touch and tap our way […]
Walking with the Waste Land Creating new encounters through walking. April : The Garden Gate to Northdown Park. We have just started a series of exploratory walks following a route from the Garden Gate in Margate through Northdown House gardens […]
Art Making Art Thinking – intermittent conversations visual and written
Just begun a new painting about a childhood memory of holidays in Portland, Dorset. I found a tiny black and white photo of myself, my brother and mum at a place called Church Ope Cove in Dorset. I remember so […]
“Let’s Talk about Vivienne” A walk , by the Walking with the Waste Land group at the Turner Contemporary. Saturday March 11th. A Photo Diary, creating new encounters. A performance by Jill Rock at Turner Contemporary Invoking Vivienne, through the […]
This walk includes a performance by Jill Rock, inspired by the Epigraph to the Wasteland, ‘Sybil” A small intervention by Elspeth Penfold at the Nayland Rock Shelter.’Menstrual Discord’. Referencing Cecilia Vicuña’s ‘Quipu Menstrual’ With words by Judy Dermott accompanied by […]
A Walk on March 5th, #ThreadandWord @espacio gallery for Threads Exhibition curated by the Artists Pool Rope knotted by Robert Zammit Pace who joined the walk after attending the PV at Espacio. I hope this gives you a flavour of […]
A recently launched survey from the Creative Industries Federation examines the role freelancers play in the UK’s creative industries.
This blog is a development from my blog Walking with the Waste Land. I have a number of new walking projects developing over the next year which will now feature in this blog.
Thoughts that developed as a result of our field trip on February 9th. Rhizomes A walking field trip from Espacio Gallery on the Bethnal Green Rd. through Sculpture in the City at various locations ending at Leadenhall Market. Participants: Veronika […]
I am really looking forward to this walk on February 23rd. Please let me know if you’re interested in joining either in London or in Kent or both. Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography http://terminaliafestival.org Exploring Boundaries and Monuments. Terminalia Festival […]
AN INTRODUCTION I started the group Walking with the Waste Land assisted and encouraged by research curator Trish Scott to use walking as a research tool as a part of the wider Research Group A Journey with The Waste Land, […]
WEDNESDAY, 25 JANUARY 2017 Seasalter in the frost in January, an estuary walk. A good place to think. REFLECTIONS ON LAST WEEK’S WALK FROM ESPACIO GALLERY TO LEADENHALL MARKET: A FIELD TRIP FOR OUR WALK THREAD AND WORD ON MARCH […]
More than three years ago in 2013 I wrote, “…back in June or July, I was unexpectedly put forward for an opportunity at Phoenix Arts in Brighton. Things progressed and excitingly, I have now been offered the chance to curate an exhibition […]
PREPARING FOR THREAD AND WORD A WALK FROM ESPACIO GALLERY TO LEADENHALL MARKET ON MARCH 5TH AT 1PM. This walk is by invitation only, please email me if you would like to take part. . The walk is part of […]
“A quipu (or Chinu) in Aymara is an Andean storage device made of cord” Frank Solomon A Field trip for Thread and Word. celebrating “Cadenetas” by Lizi Sanchez “Vibratory forms in space and in time. Acts of Union and separation” […]
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (28 May 1888 – 22 January 1947) ‘Let’s talk about Vivienne’ An Artist Led Walk by Elspeth Penfold with Turner Contemporary ‘Walking the Wasteland’ Research Group Saturday March 11th 2017 11.00 a.m. – 1.30 p.m. Meet: Turner […]
Thread and Word – an introduction. The walk is part of a programme of events organised at Espacio Gallery as part of the Threads exhibition curated by the Artists’ Pool. This exhibition brings together artists from varied creative practices, backgrounds, […]
An exciting start to 2017 with my appointment as Artist in Residence at Durham University. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust, this appointment will enable me to build on the exciting work currently underway in the En’Light’en project, which has been […]
The walk is part of a program of events organised at Espacio Gallery as part of the Threads exhibition curated by the Artists Pool. I have had work selected for the exhibition, titled Quipu. This piece documents one of the […]
