penny simons
botanical artist
Cementa Arts Festival
Kandos NSW
17-20th September 2026
"Frewen Awen" is the collaborative name for the work of Penny Simons and Hobart Hughes. Their installations combine earthly botanical sculptures, instinctive pattern making and surreal audio-visuals. Their work is embodied through a synthesis of pattern, form, concept and dream. They create places where the fundamentals of our perceptions, collective unconscious and ancestry well up and take form. Optical, performative and immersive, their installations delight and question our senses in equal measure.
"Hidden Kandos" their offering for the Cementa Arts Festival is a bespoke nest for the seen, unseen, overlooked and abandoned.
https://www.instagram.com/frewen_awen/?hl=en
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
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.
North Sydney Art Prize - May 2024
Hurricane Fence Installation
