Stephanie Tetu and Penny Simons Exhibition

Painter Stephanie Tetu & sculptor Penny Simons are both immigrants & former residents of the Southern Highlands.
For this exhibition: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, they have taken an intimate look at the peculiarities of their chosen land - a little strange, whimsical, wonderful, and poignantly beautiful.

Penny Simons

Penny was one of the founding partners of “Cloth”, a Sydney-based bespoke textile design business begun in the 1990s, that produced hand-printed, dyed and constructed textiles for the furnishing and fashion industries. 

Prior to this Penny gained a BA Hons. Constructed Textiles, majoring in weaving, from Winchester School of Art, England. 

Penny had a studio in the artists collective the SHAC in Robertson, in the Southern Highlands from 2018-2022, and now works from her studio in Addison Road Community Centre Marrickville, Sydney.

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Stephanie Tetu

As an expatiate, having moved to Australia from Canada ( the other side of the world) in 1995, I am still mesmerised by the forms and the colours of this land. The quality of the light is cleaner, brighter I would even say harsher. It is an intense country. Everything is different, the flowers are downright spectacular and the animals are eccentric. And the birds, let’s not forget the birds