Penelope Bartlau Penelope Bartlau i(A109552 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Penelope Bartlau is an established multi-disciplinary artist specialising in theatrical visual interpretation and creative writing. Her practice includes devising image-based experiences that activate audiences. Penelope generates, creates and directs projects which respond to people and places and which are defined by ambition in purpose and by astonishing beauty. Her works inspire awe, wonder and curiosity and provoke thought and feeling. She aims to make us feel differently about the world and for us to question what we think we know about time, place and fact.

Penelope is highly skilled in puppetry, performance, installation design and creative writing. She has generated, collaborated and directed works with diverse communities across Australia and internationally. Her multidisciplinary creations are presented in sites as wide-ranging as museums and galleries, theatres, site-specific/heritage buildings/locations, in-school residencies, scientific collaborations and for works radio. As a part of Penelope’s practice, wherever possible, she works with young people as equal creative collaborators and innovators.

 Penelope has worked as the Artistic Director of Barking Spider Visual Theatre since 2006, and Creative Director at Women's Circus 2016-2018.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • In addition to works individually indexed on AustLit, Penelope Bartlau has also completed a range of art and art installation projects, including:

    • Postcards from the North (with photographer Klari Agar, 2020).
    • Idly-biddly Woodley Wormbly Warble Birds (Glen Eira Storytelling Festival, 2018).
    • House of Dreams (installation at Fairhall Exhibition House, 2016).
    • ArtVember (with photographer Sarah Walker, 2015).
    • Liberty of the Press (line poetry, State Library of Victoria, 2014).
    • Ex Libris (spine poetry, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, 2013).
    • Bed Time for One (The Village Festival, 2013).

    More information on works outside AustLit's scope is available from the author's website (linked below).

Personal Awards

2020 recipient City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants for The Object Monologues

Awards for Works

Dispatch 2007 single work drama 'A fascinating visual and theatrical poem, "Dispatch" follows puppet character "Sorrel", a young girl who journeys alone in a leaky boat, arriving at "the Middle place", a nowhere-land island in the middle of an ocean.' Source: www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/ (Sighted 28/01/2010).
2007 joint winner R. E. Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Award $4,000 for further development.
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