A COMMUNAL PRACTICE

Annie brings 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.

Powerful words for the Birrarung - a climate action project.

Ros’ notebook

ABOUT

Annie offers versatile workshops and projects making natural pigments, upcycled fabric and small books. Her projects flourish where communities gather: in libraries, neighbourhood centres, hospitals, aged care, and at festivals.

EXPLORE

Upcoming workshops

Projects

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 the hashtag #Fridayecoinks if you’re keen to experiment with making natural paints! 

Being amongst it in volcanic plains grasslands in Buarth Gurru Grass Flowering Season. Westfield Grasslands. Touched up the nearby Eastern Freeway with black hollyhock on my way home. 🍷 wine coloured! So a hybrid of colour pencils and #ecoink. Fas
The question I'm most often asked is 'Will the colours last?' I love this medium because you can always renew! Touching up the Pillow Quilt petition - took it down from @alphingtoncommunitycentre wall and headed for @eastcoburgandnewlands 😚 Simpl
@riasoemardjo and me, #thingoneandthingtwo creating beauty and havoc with fresh leaf indigo dye process 🙃 'The Cat in the Hat' sums up what can happen to two friends, an indigo smoothie and one innocent kitchen! You can ask her about it if you lik
Took a spell @ngvmelbourne [Ian Potter]. #destinydeacon is there, both unsettling and grounding. I still think her 'Swan dive' is the most difficult artwork I have ever seen and it was good to look at it again. Wanna go? I'm defining back. 🌳
Can't say no ... to @traveljewellery offer of pale colour sheets 🌟 - such fine summer frock fabric with a pale green sheet recently! Clean out studio, collect. Clean out studio, collect. 😅🤣 Dirty pot using a certain WA eucalypt from local park,
Sharing matcha cake @eastcoburgandnewlands Brewlands. She says it makes her want to eat it in a mossy forest 😚 I say I taste a hint of seaweed and the ocean. And we cooked up an event about strong seed for the garden festival. Seed networks. Seed r