Some friendships happen in person. This one didn't.

Kellette and I met about five years ago through The Collage Club on Instagram. I was already a fan of her work. We started talking, realised we were both living with chronic health conditions (mine is MS), and that opened the door to a different kind of conversation.

Five years on, we're in each other's daily lives. Messaging most days, video calls and collage sessions once a week, the kind of friendship that crosses time zones. We've run a Zoom workshop together. We send each other ideas, half-finished pieces, half-formed thoughts. 

Now our work is sharing a wall.

On The Same Page opens at The Scandinavian Collage Museum in Norway on May 9th, 2026. The show was an invitation from the museum. They asked us to make work based on our friendship. Ten collages each, made independently in our studios on opposite sides of the world, brought together in one exhibition. The title is the show's quiet thesis: that our work runs along the same line, even though we've never made it in the same room.

The work has travelled. I'm at home in Adelaide. Kellette is in Portland, USA. The exhibition lives in Norway. It is, in other words, exactly what the past five years have been, a friendship that doesn't depend on being in the same place.

You can find Kellette at @kelletteworks and The Scandinavian Collage Museum at @scandinavian_collage_museum.