griefwork and ritual

A collection of works developed to navigate and honour the mourning of Kathryn's late husband and long-time collaborator Ross Gibson. Many of these works also explore the intertangled experience of grieving ecological devastation, considering the indispensable relationship between bereavement and activism.

feature 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

Kathryn was an artist-in-residence at Bundanon, on the lands of the Dharawal and Dhurga people, in 2025.
In September and October Kathryn returned to develop on work begun in her first residency in April and May, 2025.

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