Author & Photographer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trisha Dixon Burkitt is a writer and a photographer with a passion for landscape, literature, music, art and history. She has written, co-authored, edited and photographed a number of books, has edited journals and contributed as a columnist to various publications, lectured widely, is on the Board of the Powerhouse Museum, the Official Establishments Trust and the National Management Committee of the Australian Garden History Society.

Linking her passions of literature and landscape, Trisha’s recent book Under the Spell of the Ages was published by the National Library of Australia.  Her research into the life and landscape designs of Edna Walling has resulted in a number of books, articles and consultancy on her remaining gardens. A private commission to write a biography of one of Australia’s most interesting pastoral properties where our only Nobel Prize laureate for Literature wrote his first novel and other noted Australian poets were also inspired, led her to Greece and the island of  Hydra where she now takes photographic and literary workshops (see details on Contact page).

Trisha is presently working on a book for Murdoch Books (Adagio, to be released in October 2012), is a columnist and does private photographic and landscape commissions, as well as leads specialist private tours within Australia and abroad. Trisha has also worked as a pilot and a presenter on ABC Television and is a landscape consultant and heritage adviser.

Trisha lives in an early colonial house on her historic grazing property on Monaro at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains.