Academic Writing Publications

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

O'Toole, K. (2025). Drawing in Space Recording the Spatialised Feelings of Atmospheres. BBDS — Black Book Drawing and Sketching, Special Issue: Nature Drawing Nature, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 22–29. Ed. Pedro Soares Neves. Published 19 September 2025. https://journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/BBDS/issue/view/81

O’Toole, K. (2016). Lines of Negotiation. TRACEY: Drawing and Visualisation Research Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Presence issue), Loughborough University. Published 18 July 2016. https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php/TRACEY/article/view/162

BOOK CHAPTERS

O'Toole, K. (Forthcoming 2026). “Counter Mapping Atmospheres: Drawing Spatialised Feelings.” In Knight, L. & longley, a. (Eds.), Art, Connection, and Creative Encounters: Mapping Social Imaginaries in Uncertain Times. Intellect / RMIT, Melbourne.

O'Toole, K. (2021). “Drawing Wonder: A Phenomenological Site-Responsive Investigation into Drawing with the Affordances of Quasi-Things.” In Lowry, S. & Douglas, S. (Eds.), Project Anywhere IV. Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne / Parsons Fine Art, The New School. ISBN: 978-0-6487354-1-0. http://www.projectanywhere.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AnywhereI_vi_2021.pdf

O’Toole, K. (2020). “Drawing from the Non-Place.” In Journeaux, J., Gørrill, H. & Reed, S. (Eds.), Body, Space, Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing: Drawing Conversations II. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-5275-4196-2. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Place-Collective-Collaborative-Drawing/dp/1527541967

EDITED BOOKS

O'Toole, K. & Murland, A. (Eds.). (2013). Greetings from the Irish in Australia: An International Collaborative Project. Independently published. ISBN: 978-0-9807312-3-1.

EDITORIAL

O’Toole, K. & Schneckloth, S. & Soares Neves, P. (Co-editors). (2025). “Nature Drawing Nature.” BBDS — Black Book Drawing and Sketching, Vol. 6, No. 2. Published 19 September 2025. https://bbds-journal.org/index.php/BBDS/issue/view/81

AUTHORED ARTICLES

O'Toole, K. (2020). “Drawing deCentered.” Visual Arts Ireland.

O'Toole, K. (2020). “Artist Collective NINE.” Visual Arts Ireland.

O'Toole, K. (2019). “Warning.” Visual Arts Ireland News Sheet, November–December.

O'Toole, K. (2016). “Betwixt and Between.” Visual Arts Ireland News Sheet, January–February.

CONFERENCE POSTERS

O'Toole, K. (2023–2024). "Making Connections: Mapping Creative Encounters." RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, September 2023 – February 2024.

O'Toole, K. (2024). "Drawing Articulations." A Radical Drawing Symposium 2024. Leeds School of Arts (LSA), Leeds Beckett University, 26 June 2024.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

O'Toole, K. (2017). "Drawing Wonder." Drawing Conversations II: Body, Space, Place, 8 December 2017. Convened by Prof. Jill Journeaux, Dr. Helen Gorrill, Dr. Imogen Racz & Dr. Sara Reed. The Institute for Creative Enterprise, Coventry University, UK.

O'Toole, K. (2011). "Beyond the Pale Australia: The Studio as Site where Notions of Irish National Identity are Translated into Contemporary Works of Art." 18th Australasian Irish Studies Conference, 30 June – 3 July 2011. Convened by Richard Reid (Senior Curator, National Museum of Australia) and Perry McIntyre. Conference attached to Not Just Ned: The True History of the Irish in Australia, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia.

O'Toole, K. & Murland, A. (2013). "Marian Thread." Visualizing Ireland: Homage to Otherness, 20th Australasian Conference for Irish Studies, 4–7 December 2013. Convened by Ronan McDonald and Gemma Clark. The Institute of Global Irish Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.