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.

My new website :

elspeth-billie-penfold.com


this blog is linked to my new website. I hope you have time to check it out and let me know what you think!

A journey through the Wastelands Walkers

I am very pleased to be part of a walking group as part of the Turner Contemporary Wastelands Research group . For more about this project: http://wasteland.onsocialengine.com/about .

If you sign up you can find out more about the project and there are more details about the walking group on my page.

We are taking our lead from AIR at Central St Martin's:

" using walking as a method for "staying" and paying attention to a place, with an emphasis on keeping the research process open and unknown, outcomes through doing things in the everyday ...."

Our first walk is today at 2pm leaving the Nayland Rock Shelter and walking to Eastern Esplanade.

Let me know if you fancy joining us and I'll ad you to the mailing list. I hope to keep blogging about this as the project progresses.

I am delighted to be included in this exhibition.

I will be at the gallery on Friday 20th November from 2pm until 4 pm as a scheduled event organised to meet the artists. If you are unable to visit at that time but will be attending, please let me know and I will try to be there to meet you. 

As those of you who know me will be aware my piece, you can see the image shown at the bottom of this posting, is very personal. It is inspired by the Inca's "Quipus" and my mother's dementia.

Thank you to Natalie Banaigs, Kent Creative Live and all the selection panel for the hard work they put into organising this event. 

MEMORY opens on 20th November

 

MEMORY , the next 'Kent Creative Live' group show, will open at Pie Factory Margate on 20th November 2015.  

The show will display 70 pieces of work by Kent artists who responded to the theme 'Memory', covering a variety of mediums: painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, textile, video, installations, etc.. 

From personal to collective memories, all can be contemplated and enjoyed at this exhibition. 

Submitted works have been selected by a jury panel : 

Dominic Gunn, director of Gallery Gunn , says "A provocative mix of artwork with an even greater response to the theme of ‘Memory’ than I anticipated. This proves to be an exhibition where a range of media has had each of its own unique qualities used most effectively in pursuit of one truth about memory". 

Faye Hackwell, producer at BBC Radio Kent, says: "It has been fascinating to see "Memory" interpreted in so many different ways - from the artists' personal recollections, to how our memories work, to looking at the impacts of dementia on a person's mind. 
There are some stunning works inspired by places in Kent which many local people will have their own fond memories of and some very emotive pieces about loved ones lost.      

         Mark Paul Perry, Contemporary Artist & Director at SEEArt Fair says: "It is encouraging to see the breath of diversity and thought provoking Artwork that has been entered into the competition. "      

MEMORY 
Pie Factory Margate,5  Broad Street, Margate, CT9 1EW 
20th to 25th November 2015 
From 10:00am to 4:00pm 
http://piefactorymargate.co.uk  http://piefactorymargate.co.uk

"Unravelling"2015