THRESHOLDS

Thresholds by Elisha Enfield is our main event for Outwith Festival!

Thresholds explores how shared and private rituals shape the way we hold memory, feel loss, and mark transformation. Elemental subjects share space with domestic objects – vessels of both change and continuity, of celebration and grief.

Drawing from seasonal celebrations and hidden histories, these works ponder on what remains when something, when someone, is no longer present. The glow of bonfires, the shift of tides, the shimmer of glass, is where we encounter what is just out of reach; seen, felt, then lost.

Thresholds invites us to consider absence – not as emptiness, but as a space shaped by memory and meaning – and offers an encounter: a threshold the viewer can cross, carrying both warmth and after-image back into the festival night.

As part of the 2025 Outwith Festival, Fife is of particular relevance as its location of exhibition. Central to the exhibit is Enfield’s newly completed diptych, Tide and Revenant, depicting the shoreline grave of Lillias Adie, a Fife woman accused of witchcraft in 1704. One panel shows the site at low tide, the other submerged. Here, the slow movement of water replaces fire’s intensity, offering a third form of transformation: the inescapable pull of time, place, and historical silence.

After graduating in painting from the University of Brighton in 2011, Enfield has since gone on to feature her work in many exhibitions, both collective and solo. Recent notable achievements include selection for the BEEP Painting Biennial, John Ruskin Prize, and ING Discerning Eye, where she has received both the Landscape and Midlands Prizes. Winner of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2022, her work is currently held in public and private collections worldwide.

ENTRY IS FREE.