Paste-up Artists’ Book Launceston Thoroughfare Festival

My Artists’ Book Horse Talk appeared in Launceston on 28 March 2026 as part of The Paste-Up Project, an element of Thoroughfare, a one day festival presented by…

Library of Libraries

Two of my artists’ books, The Book of Smoke and Moments in the Sun, were displayed in the exhibition Library of Libraries at Blindside Gallery in North Melbourne. The exhibition…

Poetry of Place

Two poems of mine were published in the online poetry magazine Poetry of Place in 2025,  on the Catchment literary website. The poems were both were written while…

Short film, talking about my practice

A  short film about my Artist in Residence for Moreland City Council  is part of the  Creative Neighbours film series featuring artists and creatives in the municipality and…

Shine photo series appear in Garnar Lane, Dandenong

A series of photographs that I took at Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Garden were displayed in the City of Greater Dandenong public art space the Garnar Lane…

Turning Back to Edgar’s Creek Postal Exhibition

The postal exhibition (aka booklet) Turning Back to Edgar’s Creek has been distributed to households in Thomastown and Lalor, and has won the Keeping Victoria Beautiful award in…

We are with you, Spanish Flu Spirits.

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…

Bookmarks for mothers who had babies during lockdown

I created  a series of bookmarks that were distributed through the Child and Maternal Health Service, as part of my Artists Residence for my local council,  Moreland City…

Micro-history delivered, see the video!

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…

Another Night, digital story about the history of lighting

Another Night, digital story about the history of lighting Another Night, A short history of lighting, illustrated through Victoria’s cultural collections was my first story as a Guest…

Printed blankie goes up

Printers installing the artwork We Love You Back, on the Abbotsford Collingwood Maternal Health Centre. Thanks Dimity Mapstone design for help with digital crochet and Staci Perry for…

Party in the Lilac Room

Party in the Lilac Room was my final installation at Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens, and took the form of a paste up style installation of tiny…

We thought you were coming tomorrow

I enjoyed creating a playful intervention in Laurel Lodge, upturning the usual careful house museum style display to depict a scene of Edwardian domestic chaos, on the premise…

Moments in the Sun

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…

Magic Carpet, Ghost Chinese Market Garden I and II

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,…

The Book of Smoke installation at the Incinerator Arts Centre

The Book of Smoke was commissioned for the Up in Smoke installation art exhibition at the Incinerator Arts Centre in Essendon in 1997. It was presented as a…

Shine, continued

A recent photograph, continuing my interest in reflective surfaces in museums, taken in the V&A East Storehouse in London, UK.

Article published on Melville House

A non-fiction essay about the history of a minor mansion that I lived in during my twenties was published in the magazine of the Brunswick Community History Group….

Labassa photographs

I visited the National Trust property Labassa on their open day, and toward the end of the afternoon, in a final blaze of autumn light, I took a…

Edgars Creek project wins a prize, becomes an onsite exhibition

The Edgars Creek history project I curated for Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Garden has won an award, and has been transformed from a ‘postal exhibition’ into a real…

Writing residency in historic house, Melville House project

In April 2022 I  began a writing project about an old mansion in West Brunswick that I used to live in (during it’s share house era), supported by…

Why? Monoprinting with Bratwurst

Showing at the Counihan Gallery in Brunswick as part of the Moreland Summer Show 2021, History and Heritage is the first print work I have made in a…

Kids Takeover Buda Historic Home!

This exhibition/intervention was the culmination of my Creative Workers in School project, for Regional Arts Victoria, featuring art and commentary by the talented kids from Chewton and Elphinstone…

Cataloguing museum item with kids, Creative Workers in Schools 2021

I did some museum skills workshops with children at Chewton Primary School. Grade 5-6 catalogued and re-housed some items from the school archive – some wonderful 1920s crepe…

Children’s Family Story Quilts

A children’s creative project responding to decorative arts such as bedspreads at Buda Historic Home and Garden in Castlemaine, and First Nations possum skin cloaks. Aunty Kerri Douglas,…

Children’s ceramics and plate designs

A ‘creative response to history’ activity, paper plates were designed by Chewton and Elphinstone Primary Schools students, as part of my Creative Workers in School project for Regional…