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Kathryn Bird
A Contracted Encyclopaedia of Labour
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Vintage encyclopedia cuttings in paper collage on pianola roll, 336 cm x 28.6cm, 2025
Kathryn Bird is a disabled artist making art, rituals and communities on Gadigal land.
Kathryn is primarily a paper-and-glue collage artist with a deep interest in community dynamics and formation, and the role that archives play in the lives of communities. Much of her work reuses legacy photography materials.
In 2024 she undertook projects that honoured resistance to environmental and colonial occupations, including Tidal Boundaries, a series of ephemeral actions in collaboration with nature, and The Last Sky Sequence: a Collage Suite for Palestine.
While in residence at Bundanon in 2025, she completed the Encyclopaedia series, exhibited in part here.
Kathryn is primarily a paper-and-glue collage artist with a deep interest in community dynamics and formation, and the role that archives play in the lives of communities. Much of her work reuses legacy photography materials.
In 2024 she undertook projects that honoured resistance to environmental and colonial occupations, including Tidal Boundaries, a series of ephemeral actions in collaboration with nature, and The Last Sky Sequence: a Collage Suite for Palestine.
While in residence at Bundanon in 2025, she completed the Encyclopaedia series, exhibited in part here.
Artist profile
Instagram | @prettyshakecollage
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https://www.prettyshakecollage.com.au/
Most of these images are drawn from the Arthur Mees Children's Encyclopaedia. Mees died over 70 years ago, so his copyright is void.
