Walking and thinking about:




Preparing for "eves and lilliths" at Espacio Gallery. Many thanks to Ana Cockeril who selected the works and is curating the show.

For more about the exhibition:

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/first-thursdays/exhibitions/eves-liliths-an-exploration-of-womens-identity/

                                         

                                                                                                   Unravelling, 2015, weave and ropes

Delighted to have my work shortlisted for the Sun Pier Open contemporary 2016 @ Chatham Dockyard:

For more about walking as research:

http://wasteland.onsocialengine.com/post/4798571/walk-4-meanderings-with-footnotes

http://elspeth-billie-penfold.com/walking

Walk 4

 Margate, meanderings with footnotes. 

miˈandərɪŋ/

adjective

1. 1.
2. following a winding course."meandering rivers flow at vastly different rates"
3. synonyms:
4. winding, windy, zigzag, zigzagging, twisting, turning, curving,serpentine, sinuous, snaking, snaky, twisty, tortuous; (1)
   
   Each person keeps a knotted cord which is said to represent the primal migration, each knot stands for a memory,(2)

In important ceremonies the owner of the cord lets it run through their fingers.(3)

 Le Courbusier introduced the meandering curves.....(4)

an act of following a winding course."ox-bow lagoons left by the river's meanderings"vi

meander vi       I WANDERED lonely as a cloud

          That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

          When all at once I saw a crowd,

          A host, of golden daffodils; (5)

(person: wander)

deambular⇒ vi

for Wordsworth walking was a mode not of traveling,but of being (6)

vagabundear⇒ vi     A wall of Sand, I’ve always wanted to climb and  walk along the bank (7)

callejear⇒ vi

meander vi

(river, etc.: curve, twist) 

(río)

serpentear⇒ vi

Footnotes:

1. Trish

2. Billie/Elspeth

3. Lines - Tim Ingold

4.Carlos

5. Bernadette, reflecting on William Wordsworth

6. Wanderlust,Rebecca Solnit

7. Maggy

Margate ,Walk 4 - Meandering - 
Wednesday February 10th,
 Nayland Rock Shelter meet 2pm
For this walk I propose we meander. 

If you'd like to join the walk please contact me elspethpenfold@yahoo.co.uk

For more information, click on the link below:

http://wasteland.onsocialengine.com/post/4767699/walk-4

Delighted to have my work on the Royal British Sculptors website:http://rbs.org.uk/artists/elspeth-penfold

and looking forward to "Conflict" Protest and commemoration in sculpture RBS fellows event tomorrow.

Walking and Thinking, click on the link :

For more about Walking and Thinking

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27186709