New work and some news !

Estuary,2015,oil,collage,canvas, 77cm x 62cm

Kite Surfers, 2015, oil, collage, canvas, 77cm x 62 cm

"Unravelling" 2015,wool,silk,wire, 143cm x 40cm

The studio group commission for 2016 was announced by the Turner Contemporary this week. We have been working on the comissioning process for over a year and are now looking forward to working with Nadim Chaudry on the Sunley Gallery commission for 2016. I will keep you posted on this blog as it develops.

https://turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/turner-contemporary-s-studio-group-commission

For More about Threads on Tour opening in Folkestone on Friday September 26th

Click here for event page 

We are honored to be taking on UCA's Brewery Tap space situated in the trendy Creative Quarter to host our first pop-up exhibition.

This exhibition was free for Artists to enter.

We called out to Performance, Projection, Installation and Sculpture Artists to exhibit and have received application requests from Wakefield...to Holland! 

Threads aims are to be resourceful and recycle existing venues to host exciting events and exhibitions.

As always, we pride ourselves on showing cutting edge quality work. We want the concepts to shine through, not a price tag. Therefore this exhibition will be free to attend.

It is important that we are actively creating opportunities outside of London.

During this exhibition we will host another one of our screenings. This is a curated screening of about ten artists-films. This usually varies from short films and documentaries to abstract moving image works. This will start at 19:00 on 26.09.15 and will have an entry fee that can be found here

Friday 25th September

- Private View -

FREE entry and open to all!!

18:00- 21:00 -

celebrate the opening of Debut with us and sip of bubbly from us 

Sat 26th September 

- Debut open from 10:00 - 17:00 -

FREE entry and open to all 

---- SCREENING----

19:00 - 23:00(ish)

>>>>£3 entry<<<<

or £1.50 early bird

tickets available here to ensure you're not disappointed 

Sunday 27th September

- Debut open 10:00 - 17:00 -

FREE entry and open to all

- Workshop TBA 14:00 - 16:00 

Threads is going on tour!! First stop Folkestone! #threadsdebut

Our Artists!!

Emily Whitebread - Sculpture

Julia Riddiough - Video 

Mandy Lane - Installation 

Dan Nash - Sculpture

Chloè Cussé - Video

Eca Eps - Video

Juliana Guger - Sculpture/Mixed Media

Elspeth Penfold - Sculpture

Laura Marker & Bethe Bronson - Pojection Installation 

 I am delighted to have had my sculpture, "Past, present, future?" selected for the Threads on Tour debut exhibition at the Brewery Tap Gallery in Folkestone.

 For more about the Brewery Tap http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/kent/folkestone_brewerytap.html .

Looking forward to installing next week

"We are delighted to inform you that we would love to include the work "Past, Present, Future?" in our upcoming exhibition "Threads on Tour: Debut" 

Your work will be on display from the Private View on the 25th September- 28th September. 

You are part of a selection of 8 Artists who have been selected based on the quality and concept. This was a challenging curatorial decision due to the overwhelming volume of works submitted."

"Past, present,future?"

New Paintings and drawings

I am posting images and details of paintings and drawings that I have been working on over the last few months. I hope you enjoy these. I will be exhibiting them at the East Kent Artists Open Houses in Tankerton in  October! More details to follow.

Paintings on canvas

 "Giga and flowers" , 50 x 50 cm , oil on canvas

" Route Finder", 2015, 50 x50 cm, oil and collage on canvas

 "Mapping", 2015, 50cm x 50 cm, collage and oil on canvas

"A Journey" 2015, 50cm x 50cm, oil and collage on canvas

Drawings - Halkidiki- 2015

( acyrlic,collage, graphite and pastels on paper.)

Paintings on paper

Fairchilds 2015, acrylic and pastel on paper, 83 x 63 cm framed

Leaves turning, 2015, acrylic and pastel on paper, 83 x 63 cm framed

I am  working on the Crittle windows that used to belong to our art deco house and were uncovered by the builders, buried at the bottom of the garden. Now that the work has fnished on the house I have started to work on the frames.

 It had always been my intention to use the frames as supports for weaving. Now that I have started the work I am exploring the possibilities that the frames offer in terms of making new work. I have decided to incorporate art deco motifs into the weaving, using metallic threads which can only be seen in certain lights.

I was notified today that my painting "cliff" has been selected to be exhibited among the 20 finalists, out of 148 entries, at the Global Art League 2015 exhibition at the Montreal Art Centre. Twenty pieces have been picked by judges to be exhibited in the Le Canal Gallery for the exhibition which runs from the 4th - 16th September 2015.

 "cliff", 2014

For more about this painting as well as my two other submissions please visit my page on The Global Art League http://www.globalartleague.com/elspeth-penfold.html

I am also delighted to be one of the thirty artists selected by a juried entry and organised by curator Stephanie Sinclair to paint  in Norwich at the Wells Next the Sea Paint Out event in September.

For more about this event please check out http://www.paintoutnorwich.org/wells-next-the-sea/ I have never visited this part of the country but have it on good authority that it is stunning.

Looks like a busy September!

Provenance 2

Work in progress.