SCULPTURE

Cartography using Threads and Words

Spoken word poetry Why A Salt Marsh? written and performed with Pachamama sculpture by Elspeth at the Mud for You exhibition, with Turps Banana at the Fitzrovia Gallery 2022

Pachamama 2022

Pachamama – Mother Earth: a wall sculpture made with threads from Orkney, Holy Island, Portobello and Whitstable in Kent. A collaboration with five artists for PORT. For more about PORT please visit commissions page.

Weaving , walking  

Let’s Count 2022

Let’s Count, exhibited as part of On The Edge with Royal Society of Sculptors at Espacio Gallery

Let’s Count is a Retablo (a portable altar). It was made with members of East Kent Mencap in Herne Bay.

The altar contains pacer beads for counting steps. Pacer beads are used by the army for orienteering and mapping.

The sculpture was made in 2022 for Walking With Ghosts, a live art installation.

Walking with Ghosts was a commission in Folkestone with Kent-Gateways in partnership with the Imperial-War-Museum.

For more about Walking With Ghosts please visit commissions page. 

 

Emotional Cartography: Bandera 2024

Bandera exhibIted at Ovada Gallery On The Edge 2 with Royal Society of Sculptors

A Sculpture made in 2024 from quipus ( knots) made by participants in a walk for The Terminalia Festival of psychogeography in 2023. The fold out map presented as a flag contains poetry shared on the walk.

Emotional Cartography: Bandera 2024 was exhibited at Ovada Gallery as part of On The Edge, an exhibition curated by Royal Society of Sculptors artists Tere Chad and Denise Bryan.

Hubs 2023

Spoken word with Hubs , Thread and Word.

Hubs 2024 , ropes and inkle weave, floor sculpture 80 x 80 x 3 cm .


Exhibited at Downstairs Brixton Home Exhibition curated by Art Can artist Rebecca Turner.

 

Let’s Get Practical 2024

Let’s Get Practical exhibited in 2024, at The Festival of Cats exhibition at The Pie Factory Gallery in Margate.

Let’s Get Practical 2024, a sculpture and poem made with people from East Kent Mencap who are adults with learning disabilities.

 

The sculpture Let’s Get Practical was created as a response to TS Eliot’s poem, The Naming Of Cats.

The poem Eddie on the plinth maps a walk in Herne Bay.

Quipu Poem Wall Sculptures 2024

The quipu poems were exhibited as a part of “Trees”, an exhibition in the atrium at Cannizaro House,Hotel Du Vin, Wimbledon.
“Trees” was curated by Common Works Gallery




Magnificent in Decay and Time Waits are quipu poems , 2024.

These pieces were made by Elspeth in response to walking in Cannizaro park Wimbledon.

Magnificent In Decay 2024

Listen to the poems here

Time Waits 2024