griefwork & ritual

A collection of works developed to navigate and honour the mourning of Kathryn's late husband and long-time collaborator Ross Gibson, as well as other mourned non-human beings and ecosystems.

Many of these works explore the intertangled experience of personal grieving and ecological devastation, considering the indispensable relationship between bereavement and activism.

featured project

suffused mourning incense

selected work from nocturnal kinship: bird to bird, 2025

burning incense within a glass dome, suffusing its smoke into the cotton handkerchiefs of the late Ross Gibson, suspending these pieces in the breeze along a fence at Bundanon and in the artist studio

nocturnal kinship arts research residency

kathryn's arts/research project - Nocturnal kinship: Bird to bird - investigates intersections between personal and ecological grief through the figure of the powerful owl.

kathryn developed both the ecological and griefwork aspects of nocturnal kinship while an artist-in-residence at Bundanon, on the lands of the Dharawal and Dhurga people, in April/May and Sept/Oct 2025.