Artist Residency | mornington, victoria ~ february 2025

Oak Hill Gallery

In February 2025, I undertook a week long micro residency at the Oak Hill Gallery in Mornington, Victoria where I elected to make cyanotype prints based on the gallery and its surrounds.

I wandered around the extensive gardens which are adjacent to the Mornington Peninsular rose gardens. There were all kinds of little nooks and crannies where garden sculptures were placed. I drew some of these as simple ink lines then turned them into cyanotype prints. I wondered how the ink would react with the cyanotype solution - yet it never bled in water. The blue prints became a record of what I experienced when there.

I also held a half day cyanotype workshop where participants experimented with creating prints from what was to hand. I was inspired by the bold way they used the cyanotype solution and adapted some of those techniques with my own experiments.