Bundanon

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, as well as the role that archives and collections play in the lives of communities.

Kathryn founded The Social Glue of Sydney as a leaderless model of communal collage making. As a member of The Collage Club, Kathryn contributes to a weekly online project alongside 40 international collage artists.

Her work has been exhibited in Belgium, Scotland, the US and Australia. Recently, Kathryn undertook a series of environmentally responsive actions, Tidal Boundaries, as part of a residency at Woollahra Gallery with Little Umbrella, a collective of disabled artists. A triptych of works from Tidal Boundaries features in the 2025 Process.ed show, and the collage cycle Impossible Geometries was in the 2024 Manipulated show, both at Articulate Project Space.

In Residence at Bundanon

‘Nocturnal Kinship: Bird to bird’ is a research-based arts project to examine possible interspecies relationships of kinship, in particular between the Powerful Owls of Bundanon and myself. It comprises a series of embodied investigations of species loss and grief, with the Powerful Owl as the connecting thread. It departs from my lived experience of widowhood and is made up of actions including ritual grief work in nature, walking as arts practice, investigating field recordings for access by other disabled people for sensory relief, and the ritual completion of my long term collage series on human-avian connections.