A TIME TO PAUSE AND CONNECT

Annie’s writing and workshops invite you to pause. They are a rich exploration of possibility, in the context of personal experience and of place.

In Artworking, honouring tremendous loss Annie weaves a story of friendships, art, writing, and everyday interactions, and reflects on colonisation, climate change and migration.

Each event Annie runs brings people together to appreciate life, strengthen connections and savour experience.

You’ll get in touch with place, with yourself and others in an easy process combining story, listening, natural pigments and play.

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

RECENTLY RELEASED!

My new book Artworking, honouring tremendous loss combines memoir and reflection on the power of art in healing.

'Rich and a pleasure to read, a tender celebration of the power of creativity to provide nourishment in even the bleakest moments,' says Enza Gandolfo, textile artist and writer.

You may also want to order my practical resource, Death, a love project.

Workshops - Bookmaking - family book.jpg
Homepage portfolio - ecodye - oxalis.jpg
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About - bookmaking - makers hand.jpg
Project - Pillowtalk - Walnut dyed pillow.jpg
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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.

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

Look what I found in the Park 💛 Oak, lemon scented gum, black cockatoo. I felt like a kid on school holidays.
Ahh! pleasure of natural pigments 🔆 Even on rubbish packing paper, a delight to watch inks find their way. Did you receive 'Artworking, honouring tremendous loss' in an inked wrapper? What impression did it make? 🤔 Order on link in bio 🧡 #euca
There are nests and baskets in my book 'Artworking, honouring tremendous loss '. Though fragile, they are also strong containers. I wrote this book to help. So everyone is safe. 💛 Yesterday I found this nest, knocked out of a tree. #nest #basket
Graf by night. #naarm #artworking In my book 'Artworking, honouring tremendous loss' I focus on RIP graffiti and tattoos. I am super interested in #textsinthecity
Taking a moment to look at the beautiful cards my god-daughter @mitraandersonoliver read from when she launched Artworking, honouring tremendous loss 💛 Louise Bourgeois. Kandinsky. From @artgalleryofnsw ... and then a couple of international surpri
Lovely to pause and take in the river and birds yesterday. 💛