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Reflections , #ThreadandWord a walk in Edinburgh

We walked last Friday from Dundas Street Gallery to Inverleith House, in the Royal Botanical Gardens. Here a photo diary of readings and a task based intervention with rope by Naomi Garriock. Ropes and knots are an important part of […]

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Thread and Word – a collaborative walk in Edinburgh

A Wander on Friday July 7th from Dundas Street Gallery to Inverleith house Edinburgh 2pm – 4pm   An artist led walk by Elspeth Penfold inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s poem ‘Hilo y Palabra’   Includes participative interventions by artists: Nicola […]

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AirBridge: Beauty and the Bridge

Reflecting on the beginning of my public programme as Artist in Residence at Tower Bridge, this entry shares the experience of leading a participatory art walk along the Thames…

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The Leaving of Lerwick.

  Some final photographs of Lerwick: “slightly old-fashioned” is meant to be a compliment. Aberdeen is not certainly not old-fashioned; dour perhaps, but up-to-date.  It has a massive harbour sealed off with high fences, so that you couldn’t fall into […]

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Some very random jottings

  The seals were having a people-spotting Away Day today:  I was bagged four and possibly five times on my wanderings along the shore today.  At the time, I thought they were grey seals (Roman noses, you know), but checking […]

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An opening

I am thrilled to receive a Professional Development Bursary from a-n. The funding will enable me to learn new practical skills working with textiles in order to research and test new formats of showing photographic images. My practice considers our […]

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Shifting States

Supported by an A-N Professional Development Bursary. Learning new skills with textiles incorporating photography and found natural objects

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More odds and ends.

Some random jottings. The men in the high-viz jackets (from days and days ago) were indeed spraying the road, purely so that I could add to my collection of round things: I also have a collection of poles: and tidelines. […]

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Travelogue

Today’s walk: a gentle 8.3 mile ramble (according to Mapometer.com) taking in the coastal access path, the village shop in Toab, the airport runway – twice – and (almost) the Ness of Burgi.  In other words, a walk around the […]

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Let’s Talk about Vivienne

“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 […]

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Let’s talk about Vivienne

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 […]

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A very short walk indeed.

Yesterday was generally bleak and blustery, and I had to make a definite effort to leave my front door.  Trying to impose a bit of self-discipline, I decided to make  drawing every 20 steps, walking widdershins around the lighthouse.  I […]

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Settling in.

The afternoon of my second day here (the bulk of the first day being taken up by travelling, unpacking and catching up on lost sleep), and I am overwhelmed by the simple fact of being here.  I have been looking […]

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Shetland, 2017

A month as Artist in Residence at Sumburgh Head Lighthouse & Visitor Centre – and afterwards…?

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