Academic Writing
2025
Journal Article
Scientific Journal: Back Book, Drawing and Sketching, nature drawing nature, Vol. 6/No 2. Editors-in-chief and Publisher: Pedro Soares Neves.
Seminar "nature drawing nature" was co-organized by Pedro Soares Neves with Sara Schneckloth and Kiera O’Toole. The seminar took place on April 3rd and 4th, 2025, and resulted on the present issue of Black Book: Drawing and Sketching Online Journal.
We invited contributions that explore the interconnectedness of humans and nature through the lens of drawing. As part of nature, everything we create—every line, every mark—emerges from and interacts with the environment. This theme emphasizes drawing as a tool for reflection, care, and awareness, urging us to consider the impact of our actions on the delicate balance of ecosystems. Inspired by ideas of biodiversity preservation as gestures of hope and responsibility, and considering drawing as an ecological act, we sought papers that address drawing as both a creative and ethical practice.
2024
Conference Poster
Making Connection'; Mapping Creative Encounters RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, Sept '23 - Feb'24.
2021
2020
Conference Poster
Drawing Articulations a Radical Drawing Symposium 2024, Leeds School of Arts (LSA) at Leeds Beckett University, 2024
Book Chapter
“Drawing Wonder” in Anywhere IV, 2021
Edited by Simone Douglas and Sean Lowry.
Anywhere iv, Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne; Project Anywhere; and Parsons Fine Arts, School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design.
Design by Ella Egidy ISBN: 978-0-6487354-1-0. https://www.projectanywhere.net/conference/#ART2021
Book Chapter
“Drawing from the Non-Place”
In Body, Space Place In Collective and Collaborative Drawing:
Drawing Conversations 2, 2020. Editors Jill Journeaux, Sara Reed, Helen Gorrill
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2017
Academic Journal
O’Toole, K. (2016). Lines of Negotiation. TRACEY - Drawing and Visualisation Research, 11(1), 1–2. Retrieved from https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php/TRACEY/article/view/162