Simone Kennedy is an inter-disciplinary artist who incorporates painting as her primary medium, supporting various themes on the mother figure and mothering with soft sculpture and installation.

Born in England and now residing in Australia, she has a particular interest in the developing psychology of attachment surrounding the mother/infant relationship. In 2005 she completed a Master’s by Research degree in visual arts at the University of South Australia, producing an interpretive investigation of the absence of the mother in relation to the 20th Century artist Balthus Klossowski.  During her research she worked with concepts exploring childhood, adolescence, the developing brain, and in particular the symbolic ‘pattern making’ that emerges from an autobiographical narrative. This set the foundation of her recently completed PhD (by studio) at the University of South Australia where she explored the ‘self’ through re-imagining a symbolic mother figure.