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

---

WiCLA

Film

Length: 18:30
Produced by Penne Thornton
Directed by Caleb Plumridge 
Assistant Director James Duggan
Director of Photography Aidan Mair


Commissioned by City of Greater Geelong


Images by Penne Thornton, James Duggan
2020True South Film

This short documentary celebrates the extraordinary contributions of women across the Geelong region. A selection of nominees for the Women in Community Life Awards share their stories, achievements and experiences in their chosen fields including midwifery, law, cultural education, performing arts, community services and science and engineering. This film honours the nominees for the Women in Community Life Awards which are held on International Women’s Day.  

 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