L'Eau de Joy Boy by Penelope Green

Details

Retail price for the framed work is for pick-up from NERAM, Armidale. Shipping Australia-wide can be arranged and will be invoiced separately.

Retail price for unframed prints already includes shipping Australia-wide.

Year: 2024

Medium: Fine art pigment print

Size: 1100 (w) and 800mm (h)

Description 

As a country kid, summer was spent beneath the chlorine line, hopelessly contained in a backyard pool or at the public pool, eyes red at day's end. My boys are lucky to live seaside and so the ritual continues – just with infinite space and without the red eye sting. The waves are mostly no match for my youngest's energy and if I could somehow bottle his funny mix of ocean theatricals, dives and squeals, we'd call it L'Eau de Joy Boy.

Biography: Penelope Green is a journalist, author, open water swimmer, photographer, and mum of boys. Landlocked during the pandemic, Green revisited a passion for photography and began experimenting with a camera in the local pool of her then home of Orange, NSW. 

Relocating to Newcastle, she now swims and shoots daily at her local beach, her primary aim being to document life and people beachside and capture the joy, beauty and grace of ocean swimming.

Green is a member of the Wh!P Collective (Women of the Hunter !n Photography), a finalist in the City Of Sydney's Australian Life Photography Prize (2022), a Portrait Finalist in Head On Photo Festival (2024) in Sydney, and a finalist in Women Street Photographers' New York annual group exhibition (2025).

She's been a part of group exhibitions in Newcastle and Orange galleries and was recently selected to participate in the photography mentorship in Newcastle Art Space's Mentorship Program.

Home: Newcastle, NSW