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Biography. Born Penelope Loader Maffey, she was the daughter of Sir John Maffey, later 1st Baron Rugby, who was to become Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and wartime United Kingdom Representative to Dublin.
- 7 February 2005
- Sir William Aitken
- Penelope Loader Maffey, 2 December 1910, Peshawar
PENELOPE AITKEN artist. Home; Current Work. 2024 Like ghosts, or drifts of dust; 2021 What we are made of; 2021 Bark, leaves, soil, berries; 2021 Satellite of ...
16 mag 2021 · Considering state change and metamorphosis, the works in this exhibition embody chaos and compost through painting, video, poetry and sound. In dark reflexive paintings, Penelope Aitken uses ink brewed from plants to reflect on the nature of nature.
EDUCATION. 2003 - 04 MFA Victorian College of the Arts. Major: Painting. 1986 - 92 BA University of Melbourne. Majors: English & Fine Art. 1988 - 91 B ed (Visual Arts) University of Melbourne Institute of Education. Major: Sculpture. AWARDS & PRIZES. 2021 Panton Hill Bushland Reserves System, interpretive art project (with Paradoxa Collective)
Penelope Aitken lives and often works on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country in northeast Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. She makes paintings and installations about relationships between culture and nature, reflecting on reincarnation, rust, decay and new life, and informed by history, religion, botany, taxonomy and poetry.
Penelope Aitken, Essentially permissive, the artist imagines glacial erratics in Gordon Ford's rockery, 2011, oil on linen, 97 x 97cm
Unknowing. There is a sparkling quartz beach at Kappelshamn on the Swedish island of Gotland in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Instead of sand the beach is made of chunky white rocks etched in whirls, dots and the imprints of shells. On closer inspection, nearly every rock is a fossil.
