Profile

Penne Thornton is a multidisciplinary creative producer working across performance, exhibitions, public programming, artist development and community engagement.
Penne has a research focus on collaborative, place-based practice and is an advocate for social justice and equity in the arts.





Image by Leiko Manalang-Frequin



Email
pennethornton(at)gmail.com


Select Projects

>A People’s Guide to (North) Geelong
>Duwa
>Anything & Everything
>WiCLA


Platform Arts Projects

Performance
>Death Warmed Up
>Texture of Absence
>Paradise Lots
>Slip
>The Director
>Bodies of Water
>Maps of the Heart
>Pictures and Ghosts

Artist Development >Neighbourhood LAB
>infinity ensemble
>金山 婆 Gold Mountain Wife
 

Publications

> Collective Mothering
> Local Word

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Bodies of Water

Performance

Project concept Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy
Co-created with Sarah Walker
Writing and Dramaturgy Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy and Sarah Walker
Sound Design Sarah Walker

Eastern Beach, Djilang
Commissioned by Platform Arts, 
Produced by Penne Thornton

Images by Ben Hoffman 
2023Triage Live Art Collective

 
Taking place at Eastern Beach, Bodies of Water explores our relationship with the sea, as a place of nourishment, danger and transcendence. Audiences follow the boardwalk and listen to audio as the sun sets. The ocean is the birthplace of humanity, of myth-making, an unseen world brimming with life; and now, a place deeply compromised by environmental degradation. Bodies of Water contemplates the echoes between our own bodies of water, and the ocean that we are drawn to immerse ourselves in.

 I acknowledge the life systems of land, river, sea and atmosphere and the Waddawurrung people’s as the First People’s on whose sacred Country I live. This land was never ceded. I give respect to all First Nations people’s, their elders and rising generations