Profile

Penne Thornton is a multidisciplinary creative producer and research fellow 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

> Rising Lines
> Collective Mothering
> Collective Mothering Vol 2


Research

> Making Histories:Young People as Visual Historians of Changing Cities (Deakin University and RMIT ARC  Discovery Project)

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Death Warmed Up

Performance

Lead Artist Georgia Banks
Curator/Producer Anador Walsh
Supporting Artists Jacob Coppedge, Marcus Ian McKenzie
Dramaturgical & Production support APHIDS
Videography David Meagre

Platform Arts, Djilang/Geelong
Produced By Penne Thornton

Commissioned by Platform Arts and Supported by Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, Temperance Hall

Images by Sarah Walker
2025 Georgia Banks

Death Warmed Up is an immersive performance and dinner event where all attendees are invited into the farce: what would it be like if funerals were treated with the same paparazzi frenzy as other rites of passage?

Death Warmed Up sits within this world; a TV show with a focus on the food that is being served at celebrity funerals. This performed episode is about the funeral of Georgia Banks, C-List reality TV star of Remains To Be Seen fame.

 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