Simone Kenyon is a performer, artist and producer born in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
In 2006, with the dancer Tamara Ashley, she made 'The Pennine Way: The Legs that Make Us', a durational art project in the form of a walk,[2] creating a performance lecture about the project for ROAM a weekend of walking at Loughborough University in 2008,[3] and a book published by Brief Magnetics in 2007.
[4] With Andrew Brown and Katie Doubleday she instigated the 'Open City' project in 2006, exploring the organisation and control of behaviour in the public realm.
Produced by the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, audiences undertook walks through the landscape encountering dancers on the route.
[10] The project was inspired by the writings of Nan Shepherd and celebrates women's relationships with high and wild places.