Elspeth Penfold is a Bolivian/Argentinian artist who has lived and worked in the UK since1970.

Her multi-disciplinary practice incorporates weaving, painting, drawing, and performed poetry.

Her spinning and knotting work draws on the Incan history and technique of ‘Quipu’ (knot work) and the Quechua language of the native Andean people.

Elspeth is an elected member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and a member of the Memory Studies Association, the Unprimed Collective and Art Can.