Katelyn Dunn Open Studio — The Book Takes Form Artist Book “The Weeping Fig” Launch
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
After taking part in the Photobook as Object workshop in 2023, Australian artist Katelyn-Jane Dunn continued to develop her long-term artist book project “The Weeping Fig” under the mentorship of curator Yumi Goto.
In 2025 she joined a residency at RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES, where the concept and structure of the work were further refined.
Then, in March 2026, she returned to Tokyo to focus on the final phase of production at Reminders Photography Stronghold, working intensively toward the completion and launch of the book.
“The Weeping Fig” is rooted in the death of her mother, who passed away at the age of fifty-five in 2019, and in the traces she left behind.
Like many mother–daughter relationships, theirs was complex. Yet in the years leading up to her mother’s death, Katelyn felt she was finally reaching toward her—beginning to understand the intense colours and textures that made her life so singular and full.
She obsessively returned to family photo albums, handwritten recipes, scraps of paper and small keepsakes, trying to reassemble her mother from what remained.
Katelyn revisited places of personal significance: Mackay, where her mother last lived; Bundaberg, where she grew up on the family farm and now rests beneath the weeping fig trees. Somewhere between the deep red soil, the rustle of recipe pages, the worn edge of a gold locket and the wings of a magpie, her mother continues to live on.
“The Weeping Fig” is conceived as a vessel for these fragments of memory — a B5-format artist book produced in an edition of 55. Its cloth cover and binding thread are hand-dyed from the berries of weeping fig trees; the pages combine laser printing and inkjet, with a section printed on thin, softly translucent paper. Through each structural and material decision, these memories slowly crystallise into the physical form of the book.
To mark the launch of the artist book, Reminders Photography Stronghold in Higashi-Mukojima, Tokyo
will host an open studio, sharing both the finished work and the process behind it.
Visitors will be able to see the final book alongside dummies, trial bindings, dyed cloth and thread, and the traces of editorial and structural decisions that shaped the work—an opportunity to follow how one book gradually took form and crystallised into its final shape.
Details on how to order the artist book will be announced shortly. Thank you for your patience in the meantime.
Dates & Venue
・Venue | Reminders Photography Stronghold
(2-38-5 Higashi-Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-0032, Japan)
・Dates | Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 March 2026
・Opening hours | 13:00 – 19:00
・Admission | Free
Contact | event@reminders-project.org
Official Instagram | @remindersphotographystronghold
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
©︎Katelyn Dunn / The Weeping Fig
About the Artist |
Katelyn-Jane Dunn is an artist and writer based in Mackay, Queensland, on Yuwi Country in Australia.
She holds a Bachelor of Photography from the Queensland College of Art, and her photo-media practice explores intimacy, relationships, and feminine identities.
Her work has been exhibited in the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, PhotoIreland Festival, Head On Photo Festival, Photo L.A., and Photo Contemporary in Los Angeles. Her debut solo exhibition “Sugar” was held at the Queensland Centre for Photography in Brisbane.
In 2023 she took part in the Photobook as Object workshop with Yumi Goto and Jan Rosseel, and through a subsequent residency at RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES in 2025 and a focused production period at Reminders Photography Stronghold in Tokyo in 2026, she completed her artist book “The Weeping Fig.”