A TIME TO PAUSE AND CONNECT

Annie’s writing and workshops invite a pause. And an exploration of possibility. Her workshops bring people in touch with place, themselves and each other, through the joy of finding and playing with natural pigments.

Leaves, barks, lines on the land, become stories on a walk - using plants for ink.

Powerful words for the Birrarung - a climate action project using ecoinking techniques.

ABOUT

Annie is the author of Artworking, honouring tremendous loss (2025), and Death, a love project (2019). She offers workshops and projects that celebrate each person’s creativity and the beauty of nature. Annie teaches how to make and use natural pigments, and also how to make small books. Her projects flourish where communities gather: in libraries, neighbourhood centres, hospitals, aged care, and at festivals.

EXPLORE

Upcoming workshops

Projects

Ros’ notebook

MY BOOK

The reality of transience and impermanence is key to all my work.

In my book Death, a love project I bring years of experience as an end of life companion to guide you through the practicalities of end of life rituals so you can create healing love projects that help everyone grieve.

Workshops - Bookmaking - family book.jpg
Homepage portfolio - ecodye - oxalis.jpg
Homepage portfolio - inking.jpg
About - bookmaking - makers hand.jpg
Project - Pillowtalk - Walnut dyed pillow.jpg
Eco-inking by the Birrarung.jpg
Workshops - KIds book - water.jpg

What people say ...

  • “Annie guided a group (ages 7-70) on a discovery of the wetland to reveal wondrous colours & textures of nature in a place that has often been regarded as a wasteland. So much fun! Client, Friends of Altona Wetland.“

  • “Annie gets you to slow down and consider what's right in front of you. I think we're all craving this. Having her as a guide to stop and listen and look and touch and break things down and build things up again is very connecting. Participant, Eco-inking in the garden”

  • “You don't as an adult get to play very much. I had a great time just playing and experimenting with different things, and coming up with ideas to take away. Eco-dye participant. Participant, Eco-dyeing at Ceres”

  • We witnessed each other doing such different things ... experimenting. How did you do that? I love the focus that comes from gathering and learning quickly through experimentation.

  • Lots of surprises - that there are amazing possibilities from a simple plant and that Annie's stories of pigments connected to medieval times.

@annieartworking

Check out my instagram for more about Artworking, honouring tremendous loss, and natural paints and dyes. 

Layers and layers. In 'Artworking honouring tremendous loss,' I say, "Things can go wrong with grief." That was true for me after tremendous loss, and it took a long time to heal. An early section of the book outlines training Grant Broadb
Making everyone proud and part of the @yoorrook Walk for Truth - Commissioner Travis Lovett. He and local Elders led Mob and allies on a deeply moving leg of the journey to North Geelong. Ally wear. Reko Rennie @cityofyarra Sorry Day brooch. Sacred
Ayman Kaake @aymankaake - beads in this piece are about the weight of societal expectations. 😢 Jing Liang - her grandmother's abandoned house. Memory, labour (her grandma's) and materiality interact. 🍂 I read loss in these pieces. Like me, you ma
The Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Council's work towards restitution - I see it as artworking. Merri-bek is no longer the same local government since the new name. The name orients people towards decolonisation, towards a more grounded relationship with pla
Not long ago I came on work in an exhibition that I felt so connected to that I contacted the artist, @kellymanningart , and asked if she'd consider reading 'Artworking' and giving me a review for the cover. Generously, she agreed. This is how her re
I've been waiting for this moment! My book has been with me for so long. Now I'd love it to be with you. 💛 with a cup of tea, quietly reading. Preorder and crowdfund in bio. [cover costs of editing and design, 1st print run] #publishingjourney #he