' Home coming', 2018I will be joining a fab collection with eighteen wonderful artists at CabinetI'm so delighted to be a part of this collection as it has given me the opportunity to consider how to display my work connecting weaving, ...
Category: Public Art
Elspeth Penfold 2019-02-24 18:46:00
“Sumak Kawsay” * A photo diary with a few words about our walk for Terminalia. VaraThis walk is now recorded through knotted ropes attached to a Vara. It's title: ‘Sumak Kawsay’.A Walk for Terminalia on Saturday February 23rd with Threa...
Elspeth Penfold 2019-02-21 08:52:00
A Walk for Terminalia with Thread and Word. 23/02/2019 (for more about this walk please see previous blog postings.)‘sumak kawsay’*This photo taken at Reculver , during a walk on Wednesday. A PlaylistWoody Guthrie - Waiting at the Gate : yout...
Elspeth Penfold 2019-02-18 18:08:00
A Walk for Terminalia with Thread and Word - Some context for our walk .This walk takes place February 23rd in Seasalter, on the Kent Coast.http://terminaliafestival.org you can check the festival out and find us under events.IntiAs I prepare for ...
Elspeth Penfold 2019-02-09 17:18:00
A walk for Terminalia with Thread and Word.On February 23rd in Seasalter, on the Kent Coast.http://terminaliafestival.org you can check the festival out and find us under events.By way of an explanation, we will be celebrating Terminalia with Thre...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-26 06:11:00
THREAD AND WORD - A WALK WITH SHRINES AT THE MARGATE BOOKIE A final posting about A Walk with Shrines. Elaina Arkeooll reflects on her Ofrenda' Blue Beard's box', Guy Debord and The Book of Proverbs &nb...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-23 15:47:00
Thread and Word - A Walk with Shrines At The Margate Bookie Film maker Anna Bowman takes some time out from a busy filming schedule in Yo...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-21 15:30:00
THREAD AND WORD - A WALK WITH SHRINES AT THE MARGATE BOOKIE Taking time to reflect with Maggy RoddAn introduction by Elspeth (Billie ) PenfoldI have known Maggy for a number of years through The Turner Contemporary Studio group and the Journe...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-16 12:51:00
Thread and Word - A Walk with Shrines. Ofrendas responding to The Hoarder by Jess KiddTaking time to reflect with Virginia Fitch Images of Ofrendas (offerings ) made by Virginia Fitch with some words as she reflects on the process."Although I...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-15 07:26:00
Thread and Word - A Walk with Shrines.A film with footage of processional walking and of offerings created to form a liturgy to four books by four authors at The Autumn Bookie in Margate. An introduction by Andreas Loizou , founder and director of...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-04 15:06:00
In The Winter Gardens, MargateA Walk with Shrines'The Hoarder'by Jess KiddHere a final blog on our authors. Last but by no means the least, we responded with offerings to Jess Kidd's book published in America as, 'Mr Flood's Last Resort, an...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-03 10:44:00
A Walk with ShrinesA photo Diary of Ofrendas made by artists/makers for 'Madonna of the Mountains' by Elise Valmorbida Photography by Anastasia MillerWork in progress Sharon RoweThe work made by Sharon Rowe was completed and is included in &n...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-02 11:55:00
photography, with thanks, Anastasia MillerA Walk with Shrines with The Margate BookieA Walk with Shrines was part of Margate Festival 2018:Now, which was funded by Turner Contemporary, Dreamland and Kent County Council.'Ofrendas' made by artists/...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-10-01 07:25:00
A Walk with Shrines - Owen Lowery, Transitions PoetryHere images of four 'Ofrendas' made by artists/makers/authors in response to #OWLOWERY 's Transitions Poetry Margate Bookie.Our film 'Ofrendas' made with support from Arts Counci...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-09-23 13:32:00
A Filming day for "Ofrendas" 'Ofrendas' is a short film which will be shown before A Walk with Shrines at The Margate Bookie on Saturday September 29th at 10.30 a.m. at Turner Contemporary, as a part of The Margate Bookie.A Walk ...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-09-11 09:56:00
Weaving the [email protected] #4Wcop (the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography)A fab invitation from Sonia Overall, to become her Ariadne, led me to 4Wcop in Huddersfield on the 7th and 8th of September .Huddersfield canal , I love a houseboat!&nbs...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-08-28 16:40:00
Pilgrimages, Shrines, Walking, Making Labyrinths and Story Telling.In her talk at the conference Beyond The Pedestrian: Walking in Research, Theory, Practice and Performance in Liverpool on July 26th Professor Dee Heddon stated that we learn...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-08-18 06:06:00
Slow Looking - Exploring the relationship between weaving, threading, walking and the landscape .A long Walk to Nowhere, through Thread and Word part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite programme 2018A visual reflection on a walk for the Whitstab...
Festival Season: A Summer Walk at Bard
Summer means festival season for music-lovers, and thoughts turn to listening to stirring music in a place with clean air, surrounded by picnic baskets and leafy lawns. New Yorkers have plenty of opportunities to enjoy music in the city and to many dif...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-06-01 14:17:00
Some thoughts on walking, weaving and how we share stories.Supporting the walk in July by The Refugee Tales : http://refugeetales.org/book-for-refugee-tales-walk-2018/ An Introduction.Each of the textile birds that will be displayed in my T...