Selected writing by
Dr Kirsten Garner Lyttle.

Garner Lyttle, K. (2025). Ancestors, Not Objects. In Alternative Economies of Heritage: Sustainable, Anti-Colonial and Creative Approaches to Cultural Inheritance, Denise Thwaites, Bethaney Turner, Tracey Ireland (eds.), (1st ed., pp. 17–34). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290810-4

Clancy, P., Romanis, J. F., Lyttle, K., Neath, J., & Miles, M. (2025). A situated practice: making and reading photographs of place in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 24(1–2), 29–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2025.2484068

Peta Clancy, Kirsten Garner Lyttle & Jahkarli Romanis. 2024. “We Are The Archives Of Our Ancestors.” Art and Australia 59, no.2 https://artandaustralia.com/59_2/we-are-the-archives-of-our-ancestors

Author of Catalogue Essay: Dr Kirsten Garner Lyttle, “Ko wai koe? Who are you?”, Catalogue essay for Future River: When the Past Flows: Photo 2024, curated by Kimba Thompson, Counihan Gallery, 3 February – 28 April 2024, Brunswick, 2024, pp. 20 – 21.

Author of Catalogue Essay: Dr Kirsten Lyttle, “Toru Hui: Three Hui”, James Nguyen: Open Glossary, curated by Shelly Mc Spedden, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), 16 September – 19 November 2023, Melbourne, 2023, pp. 48 – 56.

Dr Kirsten Lyttle, “Adopted; Introductory Essay”, Adopted: Weniki Hensch, Ebony Hickey, Peter Waples-Crowe and Lisa Waup: An exhibition at the Dax Centre: 5 October 2022 – 6 April 2023, The Dax Centre: University of Melbourne, Parkville, 2022, pp. 9 – 14

Kirsten Lyttle, “Curators Radar: Brett Graham”, Art Collector, Issue 95, January – March 2021, pp. 99 – 98.

Kirsten Lyttle, “Ralph Hotere, Requiem, 1974”, Art Collector, Issue 97, July – September 2021, pps 144 – 145.

Maya Hodge and Dr Kirsten Garner Lyttle, “Blak Dot: Spaces to Thrive”, Dumbo Feather: Treasured Spaces edition, Issue No. 68, November 2021, Published by Small Giants, St Kilda, Victoria. p. 80 - 81

Kirsten Lyttle, “Holding Space: the importance of Blak ARI’s (from a brown girl’s perspective), An Act of Showing: Rethinking artist-run initiatives through place, Maria Miranda and Anabelle Lacroix (eds.) Dec 2018, Unlikely Publishing, Melbourne, Victoria, pp. 77 – 81.

Kirsten Lyttle, “Kete Photography”, 1 December 2017, Garland Magazine, #9: Te Moana nui a Kiwa.

Kirsten Lyttle, “On Cilau”, Threads Across the Pacific: The 2016 Australia-Mexico Indigenous Arts Residency, RMIT University, 2016, p. 13 – 17.

Kirsten Lyttle, “Found Images”, Oceania Now, Issue 1, 2015, Léuli Eshraghi (ed.), pp. 19 – 23.

Mana Motu, issue 1, 2014, Transcripts from the Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival Symposium held at the Footscray Community Arts Centre, Friday 5 April 2013. “Who will claim me?: Authenticity and identity in contemporary art of the Pacific diaspora”, Panelists: Léuli Eshraghi, Kirsten Lyttle, Jacob Tolo, Maryann Talia Pau Chair: Torika Bolatagici, pp. 19 – 41.

This first issue of Mana Motu was published to accompany the inaugural Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival Symposium that was held at the Footscray Community Arts Centre, Friday 5th April 2013. Curated by Dr Torika Bolatagici (Cover image: Mekameka Weave, Kirsten Lyttle 2012.)