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 transience, personal experience, and place.

Artworking, honouring tremendous loss (2025), Annie’s latest book, weaves a story of friendships, art, writing, and everyday interactions, and reflects on colonisation, climate change and migration.

Annie regularly brings people together to appreciate life, strengthen connections and savour experience. You’ll connect 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.

Ros documented all the colours we made in her notebook

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. She has a Doctorate of Creative Arts in Writing and long experience curating experiences in which people use writing to reflect and connect with others.

EXPLORE

Upcoming workshops

Projects

BOOKS

Artworking, honouring tremendous loss weaves together the inevitably of grief with the solace of creative expression.

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

In this book it as if a friend materialises. Annie affirms that love doesn’t end with death - it shifts. There is no right or wrong way to grieve, and the relationship can continue in powerful, unseen ways. Kelly Manning, artist

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

PURCHASE
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.

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

Nature's Place in Solace & Grief, 🌱 Thurs 6th Nov. Bookings @merri_creek What will nature have to say? What will the creek have to say? The birds? Nature's processes? Oh what a healing time I've had down at the creek over lunchtime!! #griefm
YES. #alwayswasalwayswillbe Celebrating Treaty.
Come down to Merri Creek next week for natural healing. We'll slow down. See how things breeze. Flow. Stir. No big agendas. One or two enjoyable activities. Allowing a different pace for a couple of hours 💛
When curating a theatre foyer space, can ecodyed silk come into play? 🤔 #dyeingnotdying was a tag @traveljewellery made up for me once. Now, working on a brief gig to create an audience interaction experience for #dyingamemoir Cory Taylor's wonder
Amplifying Textiles - best fun - @snudart Sandy Ma is such a good teacher. 😘 My piece is of an IBM programming card - my friend Lynn Mullens' older sister was a programmer. In Joburg, nice career choices, sorting diamonds, computer programming and
The colours! 💛 Ever more deeply interested in tree mutuality since reading 'The Hidden Company that Trees Keep' by James Nardi. North American but spellls out complexity across all trees in parks, forests, gardens. Oh wow!