An illustration for frankie magazine – this article is about a project called Skyknit that uses a neural network to generate strange and bizarre knitting patterns which are then interpreted by humans into real knitted objects.

Poster artwork for the second annual Cable Ties Ball at The Corner Hotel, hosted by fierce post-punk trio Cable Ties. The band needed a concept that could be adapted across social media, blog posts, street posters and tshirts. We also risograph printed an edition of posters to sell at the merch desk.

Illustrations for an article on how to fold a fitted sheet in frankie magazine, March 2019.

Here are a few illustrations created for a three part series on synthesisers at the She Shreds blog.

Poster artwork for the International Women’s Day event at PBS 106.7FM. More info about the event can be found here.

Milk! Records got in touch to ask me to design the poster for their annual Christmas Party - a rock n roll afternoon and evening spectacular! They asked for a few cuddly Aussie animals and the rest was up to me. I also risograph printed a small edition of posters that were for sale at the merch desk.

An illustrated map of Melbourne for the Scene Report in She Shreds magazine issue #16.

If you had to live in space indefinitely, what would you take with you? Something practical, a precious object? Nothing at all? This zine explores this hard decision as well as our strange connection with inanimate objects.

This zine was released in June 2018 as a part of the Melbourne/Tokyo Zine Translation Project. There were four other zines released by four other zine makers in this project, and each zine was translated into japanese by a Monash University student.

I was approached by Melbourne garage punk band Wet Lips to create the album artwork for their self-titled record released in June 2017. The band sent me shots of their bedroom floor, and I used this as source material to create an illustration combining their floors and mine. The colourful, messy, fun floor bounces off themes of the album - new and old friends, big nights, messing up, falling down and getting back up again.

A poster for Courtney Barnett’s Luxembourg stop on her European tour. Limited edition screen printed posters were available at the show.

I channeled a bit of spacey magic from Courtney’s video Need A Little Time.

Forest Floor is a limited edition risograph print that was released in 2018.

Rah! Rah! A Feminist Punk Rock Retrospective of Melbourne Music took place in January 2019 in the form of a day of panel talks followed by a night of live music at The Tote.

An illustration for an article in frankie magazine about how to run a top notch market stall. You can also read the article online here.

In 2018 I collaborated with Melbourne label Togetherness Design to created a limited edition of clutch purses.

The handy Clutch Purse has been designed to hold all of your everyday essentials such as credit cards, cash and coins! Each purse is lovingly made by hand and features an eye-catching original Togetherness textile design. Topped off with a chunky zip closure and custom royal blue metallic leather tassel, this purse is a delightful number, great to give as a gift or keep for yourself.

Available at the Togetherness Design online store.

A simple drawing of a smiley face biscuit just for fun.

Resin artist Rosaleen Ryan (Mamoru) and I joined forces to make new work for a group exhibition In Common held at Guild Of Objects. The exhibition was a part of the annual Craft Cubed festival, and featured seven pairs of artists, crafters and makers collaborating to create new exciting work.

We envisioned the busy desk of an employee at a space station - the tools they might use and also a little dash of plantlife. We created resin objects including petrie dishes, a magnifying glass and a terrarium full of carnivorus plants and a glowing LED appendage.

You can read more about the exhibition and other collaborations at The Design Files blog here.

Plants supplied by Plant By Packwood.

Earth's first colony on a not-so-distant planet has been inhabited for just over five years. The residents within have made great progress, but with no return trip in sight, it is easy to feel lonely and homesick.

Within the exhibition, Ronning takes a step back into the 1970’s and examines what humankind's first colony in space may look like through the lens of post-moonlanding fervour. She also imagines the feeling of isolation that space colony life brings, and the role of personal possessions and effects when you are hundreds of millions of kilometres from home. For this exhibition she has created a series of limited edition risograph prints and a zine.

No Place Like Space took place at Magic Johnston in Collingwood, Melbourne in February 2017.

Poster artwork for Wetfest, an event hosted by Melbourne band Wet Lips from 2015 – 2018.

Helio Press is my risograph printing and publishing side project, founded in 2015. Specialising in illustrative risograph printing and DIY publishing, Helio is dedicated to the art of imbuing paper with the stories and experiences of authors and illustrators. Capturing the fluid and abstract in the act of committing ink to the page. In the last four years we have published zines by Gemma Flack, Benjamin Constantine, Olivia Grbac, Carolyn Hawkins, Min Pin, Caitlin Shearer, Josh Simpson and HAM.

Find out more about Helio Press at its own website here.

This is a print I made just for fun during a time when I was particularly fascinated with the range of incredible lettering on guitar pedals out in the world. Imagine having a guitar pedal for each day of the week? Risograph printed with orange and teal ink on leafbird green paper.

Cassie’s Bathroom is a limited edition print, created as a part of a risograph exhibition at Tree Paper Comics. This edition is now sold out.

I was thrilled to be able to collaborate with the team at frankie magazine to illustrate a collection of writing from the first 12 years of frankie — Something To Say: Stories to make you laugh awkwardly in public.

Featuring witty words by Benjamin Law, Marieke Hardy, Sinead Stubbins, Justin Heazlewood and many more. 

The book is available for purchase over on the frankie website.

Poster artwork for Country Daze at The Theatre Royal in Castlemaine, November 2017. Hosted by Poison City Records.

Hidden Strangers was created in December 2015 and was a part of Hi, We’re New Here - the first group exhibition at Enough Space.

The great people at frankie magazine asked a handful of Australian artists to create custom DIY band tshirts with a favourite band in mind for a feature article. I picked X-Ray Spex! I used screen printing and puff paint pens to nail the dream dayglo look.

A poster for an event organised by Rachel Burke (imakestagram), Kitiya Palaskas and Metro Arts in Brisbane.

Welcome To My Studio is a small risograph zine published in 2017. Its purpose was as a gift to visitors of my studio and a kind of virtual tour for others too far away to visit.

I was asked to collaborate with letterpress studio The Hungry Workshop to design a card for their annual Valentines Day card collection.

‘Sweet Tooth’ is letterpress printed in red and foil printed in a beaut bubble foil, on Colorplan Lavender stock. It is available in my shop over here.

I was asked by community radio station PBS to illustrate a poster for their Spring Clean Your Conscience fundraiser drive in 2017, along with a design for a screen printed tote bag to be used for the drive and beyond.

Planting Guide For Autumn was a zine I released in May 2017. This risograph printed zine is an illustrated diary of memories of my life involving plants. Two limited edition prints were produced alongside the zine.

A simple and fun poster for Melbourne band Pting’s mini residency at The Retreat.

For an article about weird competitions in frankie magazine, October 2017.

A poster for Girls Rock! Canberra for their winter holiday session in 2017.

My artwork Memento Oppie was a part of the group exhibition Bloomin Beauty at BSIDE gallery in August 2017, curated by Esther Sandler.

Inspired by traditional methods of botanical illustration, the history of collecting and archiving plant matter and our unique Australian flora, Bloomin’ Beauty is a celebration of floral iconography with each artist presenting a unique interpretation of the theme by using their medium of choice.

Photos by Michaela Barca

Melbourne band The Pink Tiles asked me to create the album art, posters and merch for their new album #1 Fan. I was treated to an early listen of the album and worked its themes into the artwork.

Closest Approach zine was released in December 2016 as a part of Mini Comic Of The Month Club. The zine follows the story of an anonymous human who is accidentally stuck on board one of the Voyager satellites. As they float through space they describe what they see around them.

An illustrated logo I designed for local Melbourne record label Hysterical Records.

My piece for group exhibition Think Pink at Enough Space in November 2016. This limited edition print was risograph printed in red, pink and blue and then finished with glitter thermographic powder.

A tshirt design for Melbourne band Muscle Mate.

The magical North Melbourne creative shop Guild Of Objects commissioned me to create a map full of their favourite local locations. These were risograph printed and available to customers in-store. You can read about the launch of the project and see some snaps at their blog.

Tachiyomi is a zine of drawings and photographs from a trip to Tokyo. Published in May 2016,, accompanied by two limited edition risograph prints.

An illustration that went alongside a (very tasty) recipe for congee in frankie magazine.

The Small Zine Volcano Tough Bag Fundraiser was a exhibition and gig at The Old Bar in 2017 with all money going to zine distro Small Zine Volcano. Artists were invited to create art on an Australia Post tough bag.

Spot illustrations for an article in frankie magazine in 2016 about Dr Stephen Hughes’ cosmological cookbook.

To & Fro is a celebration of Voiceworks' 100th issue. Voiceworks is a national magazine that showcases the work of young Australian writers, and for issue 100, past writers and editors return to the pages as contributors, and mentors to young writers.

I contributed a handful of illustrations to Voiceworks in the first few years after moving to Melbourne, and I was lucky enough to be asked to illustrate their entire exciting 100th issue. I was given a lot of freedom and was able to interpret the stories in my style with few restrictions, under the guidance of editor Elizabeth Flux and designer Connor Tomas O'Brien.

Photography by Mark Lobo

Deep Space House Plant was my first solo exhibition, hosted by Rooftop Art Space , Melbourne from 2 — 28 February 2015. The body of work consisted of ten three–colour risograph prints, each in a limited edition of thirty. Each piece depicts a scene from a space-station murder mystery.

DEEP SPACE HOUSE PLANT occurs on an interstellar space station beyond our galaxy, exact location has been unknown for three earth years. The space station specialised in the affect of gravity upon earth plant life, and the discovery of plant life on other celestial bodies. Images have been received by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico of a seemingly abandoned station with overgrown experiments and small signs of struggle. It is unknown why the six humans on the station have fled, or if something more sinister has occurred. Investigation continues.

An illustration for ‘Why do people have children?’ by Estelle Tang, written as part of The Interrobang Festival for The Wheeler Centre.

A poster designed in 2015 for Sticky Institute’s annual Festival Of The Photocopier - Australia’s largest zine fair.

Poster artwork for the National Young Writers’ Festival artist callout in 2016.

A poster for the special live edition of ABC podcast The Real Thing. Elements from every story in season one are included in the artwork.

I had the wonderful pleasure of working with the incredible crafter Gemma Patford on a new rope vessel guide for her rope vessel diy kit and workshops. Gemma guided me through the process, and then I went away and created an illustrated guide, and risograph printed it all here in the studio. The guide is available in Gemma's shop here.

Photographs by Heather Lighton

A simple risograph zine made as a little experiment with zine formats, released in December 2017.

An illustration for Hound & Bone’s annual Christmas card for 2017. Knowing that they are quite fond of a knock off beer, I paid homage to their tinnie tradition.