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

Walking and Thinking

For more about this project please visit my website http://elspeth-billie-penfold.com/

Walking and Thinking

MARGATE

Walk 3  Wednesday January 20th

"You are drawn to the light slow goosestep of the figurative", from Sonia Overall's poem ,"Margate 5th of May". Sums up this walk for me.

We began our walk looking at what was there at the Nayland Rock shelter. We paused to look at  the  shelter as a beautiful space. Wouldn't it be fun to fill those seats and inhabit the space?
We walked along the sea front promenade, we looked at the globe lights spaced at regular intervals and stopped to read extracts from Sonia's "The  Art of Walking".
We decided to walk around the Turner and follow the beach below. We had no idea of how long we'd walked for.
The beach was amazing, the cliff, the tunnel up to the top and wonderful conversations.
Jan said "you'd better tell me when you want to stop as I'll just carry on walking", then invited me back for tea.
The photo I have used is after tea walking back from Jan and Ian's. Such a perfect day.

The walk is just like painting an abstract piece, the what's in front of you ( the figurative) is the platform for the creativity and the art is in the meeting of minds, making connections and sharing the experience.

Can't wait for the next walk!

I have just updated my new website with information about Walking as Research, which is part of the Turner Contemporary's research group into TS Elliot's The Wasteland for an exhibition opening in 2018.

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

The walking group is using walking to explore the poem and TS Eliot's time in Margate where he wrote part of the Wasteland.

Our second walk was planning to follow the route of the tram line from the original Tram Depot to the Albermore guest house on the Eastern Esplanade where T.S. Elliot stayed.


 It took us a while to find the remaining track on the old site of the depot on Cromwell Rd as it was part of the redeveloped NHS site and the tracks were carefully preserved embedded into the driveway.

 By the time we had finished we'd walked for an hour and a half and found ourselves back at the Nayland Rock Shelter.

  I hope you enjoy the update.

If you'd like to take part in any of our future walks please contact me and I'll add you to the mailing list. My email is on my website. Walking will resume in the New Year.

Have a Wonderful Christmas and Wishing you all the best in 2016.