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Penny Modra

Penny Modra is the editor of ThreeThousand, a weekly subcultural guide to Melbourne published by Right Angle Studio. It's an online magazine written by a motley band of locals for readers who love poorly publicised independent projects, nice clothes, new music, good reading, hard-to-find lunch places and art openings.

Penny was a co-founder of Melbourne's experimental publishing project Is Not Magazine (2005–2008) – essentially 15,000 words per issue printed on 1.5 x 2 metre posters, distributed on the walls of Melbourne and Sydney, and in tubes to the rest of the world. It was the tubes that got them in the end. Penny writes a weekly visual arts review column for the Sunday Age, and does the Wednesday arts round up too.

This year, Penny founded an editors' agency called The Good Copy, and continues to work for clients such as architects, PhD students whose dissertations are due in 12 hours, Tourism Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and London’s Future Laboratory. She does not clean her studio that often and you can’t come visit her.

Penny Modra will be appearing:

A panel on book production, featuring Eli Horowitz, Penny Modra and Chris Flynn.
A panel on book production, featuring Eli Horowitz, Penny Modra and Chris Flynn.