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...
Category: Public Art
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...
Meet SPOT, the Giant Fiberglass Dalmatian on East 34th Street
SPOT! is the name of the giant Dalmatian at the east end of 34th Street balancing a yellow taxi on its nose. This new public sculpture by artist Donald Lipski sits outside NYU Langone’s new Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Pavilion at 34th Street and Firs...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-05-13 16:23:00
Looking forward to Hazelfest on May 20th hope to see some of you there.Thread and Word at The Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2018Highlighting the campaign by The Refugee Tales for an end to the unlimited detention of asylum seekers and refugees in the U.K.Thre...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-05-06 10:28:00
Virginia Fitch performs from Pruffock'Sound and Sway' A photo diaryA Walk for the Margate Spring Bookie 2018 Thread and Wordat the Turner ContemporaryWith thanks to:The Margate Bookie team headed up by Andreas Loizou,Jennifer Deakin (photogr...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-04-20 15:33:00
Thread and Word working to support The Refugee Tales at the Wandsworth Arts Fringe and beyond. This event supports the campaign to end the unlimited detention of refugees and asylum seekers...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-04-15 11:54:00
Looking for the magic in the everyday through TS Eliot a walk in Margate on March 24th 2018.Walking with The Waste Land- An edited Photo diary of "A Treasure Trail". Thank you to all who joined, participated and contributed to make this such...
Elspeth Penfold 2018-02-24 12:58:00
Walking with The Waste Land Photo-Diary - 'Mud Walking' On Friday the 23rd of February, members from the walking group Walking with The Waste Land and their friends conducted a walk from the Sportsman Car Park in Seasalter, near Whitstable, in Ken...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-12-28 14:42:00
Snapshots ending 2017 and a sneaky peek at projects in 2018 Walking San Pedro de Atacama, Chile 2017 I have been working o...
Ai Weiwei’s Vision in Washington Square, Night
In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the Public Art Fund has unveiled its largest public art project to date in the city, “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” by the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. The installation, consisting of more than 300 a...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-10-19 14:27:00
#Thread and Word : A walking poem written during the Art Festival XOXO @OXO #Tribe17 we walked and experienced our surroundings with a pack of instructional cards, ropes and ribbons. These are the words that resulted from th...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-09-18 13:50:00
A photo diary with some words about our walk for Brexitopia at Espacio Gallery. Walking in The Footsteps of the Huguenots &...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-09-10 12:18:00
Walking in the Footsteps of The HuguenotsAn artist led walk by Billie Penfold on Wednesday September 13th from 1-2 pmFrom Espacio Gallery to the London Wall Welcome back after the Summer breakThis walk is part of the exhibitionThe Republic of Brex...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-07-29 12:33:00
A photo diary with information about developments for Walking with the Waste Land at the Margate Bookie 2017.Walking with the Waste Land is a community group which is part of a wider project at the Turner Contemporary exploring visual connections with ...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-07-17 05:44:00
A walk in July A collaborative walk on July 12th with the Garden Gate Community Project and Walking with The Waste Land in Cliftonville, Margate.A photo diary of a series of walks which we began in April. this is our fourth walk.July seems to...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-07-10 19:06:00
'Precario' (1990) Cecilia Vicuña 'maximum fragility' can work against 'maximum power' These words from artist Julia Riddiough who provided us with a walking chakra for our fragile lives.http://www.juliariddiough.comThis gave us a&n...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-07-03 13:34:00
A Wander on Friday July 7th ,Thread and Wordfrom Dundas Street Gallery to Inverleith house Edinburgh 2pm - 4pmin collaboration with Threads An artist led walk by Elspeth Penfold inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s poem ‘Hilo y Palabra’&n...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-06-12 06:32:00
A June walk - thinking about projective verse ,with The Garden Gate community project in Margate. The Walking with the Waste Land group in collaboration with members of the Garden Gate community in Margate have decided to embark on one ...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-05-31 11:59:00
ThreadandWord'Listening with our eyes''it is difficult to be responsible to an environment, if we have not first listened in to find out who is present' J.E. Skinner.Our research for thewalk with #ThreadandWord, with its links to Cecilia Vucña's ...
Elspeth Penfold 2017-05-20 09:34:00
Walking with The Waste Land developing a walking collaboration with The Garden Gate in Margate.A walk in MayWalking with The Waste Land and the Garden Gate Margate.“ a poem can be like walking down a street and noticing things, extend...