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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. 2021 What we are made of; 2021 Bark, leaves, soil, berries; 2021 Satellite of Love; 2020 Friends Indeed; 2020 UnKnowing ...
16 mag 2021 · Penelope Aitken, what we are made of will make something else (installation detail). Image Lucy Foster. Penelope Aitken, The fizz and the pop, 2021, oil, eucalyptus ink and burnt plant matter on board, 60 cm dia, $2,500. Considering state change and metamorphosis, the works in this exhibition embody chaos and compost through painting ...
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 Penelope Aitken, Elthamesque 1, 2011, oil on canvas, 97 x 97 cm Penelope Aitken, Elthamesque 3, 2011, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm
2020 UnKnowing — PENELOPE AITKEN. Penelope Aitken, UnKnowing, August 2020. This video was part of Liminal // A shared distance, an online exhibition from Hatch Contemporary Arts Space and a collective response by over 30 artists, makers, performers and poets from the Banyule area to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. Unknowing.
