penny simons
botanical artist
Installations/Residencies
Kioloa, South Coast NSW Oct. 2024
A 1 week collaborative self created art residency with Hobart Hughes. The retreat mission was to create a narrative landscape installation to use for European art residency applications in Ireland and Iceland.
Galway Ireland June 2025
A 1 month collaborative art residency at Watershed Studios in Galway, with Hobart Hughes.
Creating a large installation, and performing artwork. Created around themes of ecological stewardship of the land and narrative landscaping.
For fly thru of the making of the installation and subsequent performance see utube link:s h
Cementa/Kandos 2025/26
A collaborative residency with Hobart Hughes,
split into 2 , 8 day blocks:
September '25 and April '26.
Culminating in a large installation work that will be exhibited in the 2026 Cementa Arts festival. in Kandos.
"Frewen awen" created in September '25. The name for all collaborative works of
Penny Simons & Hobart Hughes:
https://www.instagram.com/frewen_awen/?hl=en