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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Paradise Lots

Performance

Created By Pony Cam Created/Performed by Greta Cuthell, Breanna Deleo, Emma Clarke, Eza Bakker-Graham, Alexander Devorak, Amelia Vu,
River Madden, Eden Ariston, Lillian Stoel, Hannah Senftleben, Daniel Curnow, Aimee Miller, Seth Johnson, Jasmine Swindells,
Thomas Byrnes and Ilsa Fogg 
Artist Support Sheshtin Honey
Creative Support Enhui Cai

Platform Arts, Djilang/Geelong
Produced By Penne Thornton

Supported by City of Greater Geelong, Vic Health. Thanks to Back to Back Theatre. 

Images by Leiko Manalang-Frequin
2024Pony Cam

We’re creating a new world order. It looks like the one you created. Concrete, cars & slurpees.
But this is not your world. This world was born from the one you watched die.

Experimental theatre company Pony Cam collaborate with a group of young artists to transform an urban car park into a large-scale performance space. Audiences will be confronted with a series of intimate performance works that challenge unchecked assumptions about youth.

Paradise Lots is an experience trapped between teenage cynicism and middle-aged optimism; an apocalyptic fantasia set inside a teenage dystopia

 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