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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Neighbourhood LAB 

Artist Development

Co-presented by Making Change and Platform Arts.

Platform Arts, Djilang/Geelong
Produced By Penne Thornton

Supported by Creative Victoria

Images by Penne Thornton and Leiko Manalang-Frequin
2023/2024Interdisciplinary Cohort

Neighbourhood LAB is a long-form artist development program designed to build capapcity and community for a regionally-based artistic cohort. Six artists in residence across the G21 region collectively explore and interrogate the key challenges and enablers of maintaining a regional arts practice. 

Supported by Next Wave in partnership with the Centre for Reworlding, Rogue Academy and Public Assembly. 

 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