Recent work

For those of you who didn't make it to my open studio exhibition. This is some of my recent work. I was feeling nostalgic and am painting Inca images. I have also been considering ,as always, how we classify art and how we classify craft....Hope you like them!

Looking forward to seeing you there. I am in studio 405, Blue Studios!

Sounds Like Mischief at Proud Camden was a fantastic night and its great to have beeen invited back. I am planning on setting up an installation in one of the stables which will be good fun!! So keep an eye open for dates for this event which I will be posting on this blog.

Now am working towards our Open Studios show at Wimbledon Art studios which will run from Thursday November 25th to Sunday November 28th. You can visit the website at www.wimbledonartstudios.co.uk to see the range of artwork being made at the studios. Hope to see you there!

And for those of you who are based in Kent, or fancy a trip to the seaside, our Made in Whitstable Showcase 2 will be running from November 17th until the 23rd at the Horsebridge Centre.

Three important dates to put in your diaries!

October 19th at the Proud Galleries in Camden I have been invited to exhibit work by Sounds like Mischief . This is going to be a fun evening with bands and a DJ, for the line-up please visit the Proud Camden site. Matthew Priest and I are exhibiting work in one of the stables, Red Rum. It is a wonderful venue and should be fun so would love to see you there.If you let me know that you are coming I can arrange for entry tickets to be available!!

Made in Whitstable Showcase 2 at the Horsebridge Centre Whitstable. This group exhibition by local creatives runs from November 17th to November 23rd. It is the second time we are all exhibiting together and those of you who attended the first know that it has a variety of works including jewellery and felt-making. So if you fancy a day by the sea-side it would be great to see you there!!

Wimbledon Studios Open studios,Thursday November 25th to Sunday November 28th. There are 75 of us exhibitng in our studio spaces, with parking available at the old Wimbledon dog track next to the studios. Check out the Wimbledon Studios website for more information. I shall also be sending out invites for the private view. Last open studios we had over 5,000 people visit. This is my first time participating within the studios so would be wonderful to see you there.

Elspeth Penfold

Create Your Badge

Assemblage

June 2010

Two pieces of amazing news!!

The first is that I have been selected by the art-s-talker creative agency for inclusion in

the e-Creative Directory 2010/2011- guide on the best art and design graduates in the UK which will be launched as part of the London Design Festival Program next week. I am really looking forward attending the events being organised by AKDK as part of the launch of the directory.

Secondly I was notified by The National Open Art Competition, Chichester that my painting Assemblage has been shortlisted from over 1600 entries for the Stage 2 judging on the 14th of October to be held at Goodwood Racecourse, Chichester.

This is the

painting I am exhibiting at the Horsebridge A1 Open exhibition.

It is on until August 1st during the Oyster Festival.

Its all happening this week end, make sure you come and enjoy!!

check this site out !! really pleased to be included in New blood Arts review of degree shows!! Highlights from Wimbledon Degree Show « New Blood Art Blog -

This is one of the pieces on show at the Made in Whitstable showcase at the Horsebridge Centre starting July 7th for one week!!
Hope you can make it.

Diary date July 7th - 13th Made in Whitstable

A huge thankyou to all those who attended the degree show!!It was very successful, we have had brilliant feedback about how it compared to the other Colleges which is a boost.

Anyway onwards and upwards... I have taken a studio space at Wimbledon Art studios and moved in on friday so will be posting dates for exhibitions there. I believe the first is November 25th for a week, if you are not yet on my mailing list but would like to be included please e-mail me to let me know.

I am also part of a group of artists working under the umbrella name of Made in Whitstable and we have a group show starting on July 7th - July 13th at the Horsebridge Centre, the private view is thursday July 8th at 7.00p.m. Let me know if you are coming!!

For those of you who were unable to attend the exhibition at Techo in Clerkenwell, here are some images to give you a flavour of the exhibition. It was great fun, thanks to Jon and his crew at Stu Dent Art.

The snapshot blog of Cannizaro Park 10 can be seen on this link:

http://www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/snapshot/

The opening shots are of my installation "A Plastic Love Affair", I love the sounds!!! Tune in and have a listen.

OUTSIDE THE BOX

Wimbledon College of Art's annual end of year Degree Show brings you 2010's graduating Fine Art Class for one week only

http://www.wimbledondegreeshow.com/

Dates:
Private View: Thursday 17th June 2010, 18.00 - 21.00
Show Open Friday 18th to Wednesday 23rd June 2010
(Closed on Sunday 20th June 2010)
Weekdays: 10.00 - 20.00, Saturday 10.00 - 17.00

Hope you can make it!! Click on the link, then go to student gallery to get a taste of what the show will be like. If you visit painting you can see some of the work that will be in the show. See you there.

STUDENT ART NETWORK

ART EXHIBITION @TECHO

TUESDAY 25TH - FRIDAY JUNE 4TH 2010

VIP Preview Evening Tuesday 25th May 6 - 9 p.m.

Techo UK, The Corner (of Clerkenwell Road), 91 -93 Farringdon Road, London EC1M 3LN

"14 Artists have been selected from 4 different art schools: University for the Creative Arts, Wimbledon School of Art, Loughborough University School of Art and Norwich University College of the Arts" and great news, I am one of them!!

check out www.studentartnetwork.co.uk

Fwd: FRINGEMK Painting Prize

Great news, as my painting has been selected for the catalogue for the FringeMK Painting Prize!

Dear Entrant,

The panel has made its selection of works for the FRINGEMK 2010 catalogue from the tremendous amount of entries received. The quality of painting submitted was way beyond expectation and it has been a very difficult selection.

We are delighted to tell you that your piece has been selected for inclusion in this year’s catalogue.

From this selection, works will be chosen for our final exhibition and this announcement will be made on 1 June. The four prize winners will then be announced at the awards evening being held on 15 July in Central Milton Keynes.

Images of the works selected for the catalogue will be placed on our facebook page shortly.

and there were more.........

Finally the Cannizaro intervention unfolds!!

"A Plastic Love Affair"

preparing for Cannizaro

at home

and

considering the site!

www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/park10artists.htm is where you want to go to see what is on at Cannizaro Park this Friday! Hopefully see you there.

Pacific Garbage Dump- Nightline

Working in Cannizaro today! Absolutely amazing.

Here is a photo of the site for my Cannizaro installation! If you look on the University of the Arts website you can see the range of artworks that will be exhibited.

http://www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/

Hope to see you at Cannizaro on May 7th

Keeping you informed about Park 10

My current practice concentrates on the juxtaposition of materials both through painting and installations. My piece for Park 10 considers the use of plants and plastics and how planting has become dependent on plastic.I intend to create an intervention in the park which references the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and which will evolve during the course of the exhibition.I shall be posting photos of the site over the coming week and will be filming the event over the three days at Cannizaro which will then be uploaded onto my blog. Keep checking this site for images.

The Garbage Patch - this piece relates to my intervention in Cannizarro Park! Hope you can make it to the private view on May 7th

These paintings continue with abstracting images from photographs, but the shapes have become less important as I consider the compositional relationship between the materials I am using.

The Collage images include the original photographs of the objects and images from magazines and printed material from books which have been chosen because of subject matter which refers to the original structure, a colour reference or line or the quality of paper which become integrated within the painting.

These are some of the paintings I have been working on since November. The images are from photographs I have taken in Whitstable and Seasalter of barriers or structures which have decayed and become a part of the space which they were originally imposed on. My drawings abstract the phtographed images to geometric objects which then become the compositional elements for my painting. These paintings are made from collage and oil paint on stertched canvas (71 cms x 61 cms)

Park10

You can find out more about Park 10 by following this link! Its going to be a great event, hope everyone I mailed can come!

file:///Users/elspethpenfold/Documents/%20PARK%C2%A010.webarchive

Geodesic Garden 1

I am playing with ideas of forced growing of plants and how plastics have become an integral part of the growing process.

Geodesic Park

Park 10 Friday May 7th to Monday May 10, Launch and Private view Friday May 7

I am happy to say that my proposal for Park 10 has been accepted. I am currently working towards the development and realisation of my piece. The piece I am proposing is an intervention/installation within the grounds of Cannizaro Park which has been informed by The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean. I am looking at artists like Fabian Marcaccio, Phyllida Barlow and Isa Genzken to inform my work. I will be posting images on this site as the work progresses.

Elspeth's website is now live!

elspethPenfold.com