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littleglobe european projects director, arts producer, writer

PENNY RAE, anative of the United Kingdom, has worked extensively across Europe, the United States, and in the African countries of Zimbabwe and Swaziland.She collaborates with a wide range of artists to make publications, exhibitions, public art installations and performances and continually seeks to engage with people through issues based arts projects. For the last seven years, she has worked on arts projects focused around the subjects of immigration and asylum, hospice care, art and public transport, and numerous other public projects. Rae has published extensively throughout Europe and writes arts reviews for The Bulletin and on a freelance basis for several other magazines. She holds a BA with honors in Dance and Creative Writing from the University of Leeds, England.

Her work has been nominated for numerous arts awards. Her collaborations in Ireland with the national bus company and with O’Callahan Properties, the leading Irish construction company, on the construction of a new contemporary art gallery were awarded several arts and business awards. Her project New Young Europeans won the prestigious London Time Out award.

Rae will collaborate with Molly Sturges on the development of her project New Young Europeans into a contemporary opera to be presented in Ireland and the UK in 2008. In June 2007 she begins research on her latest project The Poetry of Every Day Life for the Scotland based organization Art in Hospitals. Projects in Istanbul and in London are also in research stages.

*photo by kate russell