More tiny paste-ups, one of my artworks for The Moreland Memoirs suite of projects for my Artists Residence, connecting locals to the comforting presence of people from the…
Created as part of my Artists Residence for my local council during the Melbourne Covid-19 lockdown, these bookmarks are momentoes for mothers of new babies born during the…
A short film about my Artist in Residence for Moreland City Council has been produced , part of the Creative Neighbours film series featuring artists and creatives in…
I am enjoying learning about the history of Edgars Creek in Thomastown and Lalor, for a ‘postal exhibition’ I am curating for the Friends of Westgarthtown.
I am doing a six month artists residency at Moreland City Council, through the Working for Victoria program. I have been working on a few projects for The…
Signed, folded, delivered – over 300 copies of my tiny booklet have been hand delivered and a video is online. Locals living around Coburg Lake, in the area…
Installed more than 150 paste ups of my little ladies in current and former maternal health centres in the City of Yarra – historic photos of early maternal…
Text reads Cricket Moustache, 1980s walrus revival style David Boon’s moustache (1984-1995) is considered one of the best moustaches in Australian sporting history. Text reads Rowing Moustache, 1912 Originally…
This is from a series of artworks based on shadows in historic photographs. I started out drawing shadows, but later I printed out downloaded historic photos and painted…
A collaboration between Kitty Owens and textile artist Mary Zbierski West. These painted footpaths are a homage to the Chinese Gardens that were once sited in Bridges Reserve,…
In 2005 I undertook an Artist in Residence at Coburg Childrens’ Centre, working with pre-schoolers on ceramic and mosaic panels around the idea of the seasons, which were…
I have been commissioned by the UNESCO Melbourne City of Literature Office to create a micro-history of Coburg Lake Reserve. This image is a sample of what the…
I recently joined a new writing group at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Each meeting has a theme, and at the first meeting we were also given…
I am working on an essay about the fate of horse drawn carriages in Victoria, and contemporary ideas about them. So far, I have visited the Beechworth Carriage…
I love hunting down traces of horse era in Melbourne. If time travellers from the nineteenth century were to arrive, one of their first questions would be “where…
This is a photo I took recently at Coopers Settlement, Bundoora Farm Park, in suburban Melbourne. I was the only visitor there, and the site hasn’t changed much…
I recently attended a workshop on Voice in Creative Non-Fiction presented by Kill Your Darlings literary magazine, . The workshop was led by Sarah Krasnostein, author of the…
I am working on a photo essay – There is Something Under the Asphalt – based on images from the City of Sydney Archives, Most of the images…
I am delighted that the Wangaratta Stories exhibition that I curated as the Roving Curator for Museums Australia (Victoria), in collaboration with Wangaratta Art Gallery and Wangaratta Historical…