grief work and ritual
grief work and ritual
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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
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
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.
writings on grief and rituals
writings on grief and rituals
Article in Garland Mag, September 2023
"An active and generative process": encountering death with Ross Gibson
Article in Continuum, August 2025
Unfurling/Night sky: Rituals as art practice
Article in Garland Mag, September 2025
memorial mourning kit, limited edition
Made in collaboration with a published event and Ross Gibson, 2022
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