Month: April 2017
Places of Interest: Corner of Best Lane and High St., Canterbury
It has become part of my everyday routine in the last two years to eat my lunch while sitting on a singular bench that overlooks the corner of Best Lane and the High Street in Canterbury. As well as being located conveniently close to the public lib...
Das Spazierbüro • Ein Festival
Herrreinspaziert! – lerjentours, die Agentur für Gehkultur, lädt auf dem Werdmühleplatz in Zürich ins «Spazierbüro». Anleitungen, Anregungen, Walks und Gespräche zu Spazierkunst und zur Kunst des Spazierens. Dabei sind die Spazierkünstlerin Simone Ette...
Engaging and Metaphors: Inspiring debate about co-creative projects in Leuven
On April 20, in Leuven, Belgium, I presented my experiences with successful co-creative planning projects to researchers and project developers of the Department Omgeving of Vlaanderen – and we had a great discussion on the role of walking, engagement and metaphors in those projects. It became clear that it is crucial to creatively implement the […]
Rights restored around Eglwysilan common today
Tomorrow, pesky access-blockers may be back, but today belonged to the people who have rights on Mynydd Eglwysilan Common: commoners, byway drivers and trail, quad and pedal bikers, horse riders, walkers, roamers were all there to let the landowners know … Continue reading →
Old Story New Story
Today I have uploaded all the blogs from my facebook page The Warriors’ Way – A Journey to the Heart onto my blog here so that you can follow the story of my walk across Wales all in one place…Enjoy! The Pilgrimage Begins – 31st May 2015 We live in changing times; the great turning […]
Traces of Long Forgotten Truths
June 2015 Day 1 Leaving the Great House, the charming old Welsh long house where I’d spent the night in a room overlooking the river Usk far from the madding crowds of Newport, I was struck by the rightness of the huge wooden sculpture carved from oak tree roots at the end of the road […]
Elspeth Penfold 2017-04-23 13:54:00
Developing Thread and WordSo the work progresses in many different ways.QuipucamayocsI have been busy in the studio making 'Quipucamayocs', a series of artefacts using the ropes knotted by walkers during the development of the walks culminating in Thre...
Shetland Watercolours – April 2017
In the last few days I have started a new series of water colour drawings.All based of recent walks in West Burrafirth along Brindister Voe and up on the hills above. This is a place to wander and never see anyone else, a place inhabited at this time o...
Cut Flowers
Cut Flowers at the Beaumont Gallery, Mere currently features work from the Forced Walks: Honouring Esther collection. Cut Flowers runs until Sunday April 23. In addition to work from Lorna’s practice exploring inherited trauma, the exhibition includes the Honouring Esther … Continue reading →
Looks like map’s back on the menu, boys (m/f)!
When you allow Dérive app to keep track of your location, you can find a map of your meanderings on our website. All dérives that take you around town, that is, have a length that is greater than zero, have a unique ID assigned to them. You have a...
March 31, 2017, 9 am, with Marcus Y.
(With Marcus Young) This walk, on the calendar longer than most, holds the soft edge of cold. Walking in the unfamiliar, looking back on the space we’ve been in. Seeking warmth, the street only offers beginnings of answers. Allusions to spring, r...
Inverse Performance Art Festival 2017 – Part 2
At the risk of being called an April fool I undertook to perform a new version of my piece 'No holiday' on Cheung Chau.This time the piece was being live-streamed to the Inverse Performance Art Festival in North-west Arkansas, USA....
