Ruby Healey

I’m a multidisciplinary designer and sometimes photographer based in Naarm/Melbourne. I work from Idle Time, a studio space that I co-founded and manage. My practice sits at the intersection of communication design and image making with a focus on documenting, interpreting and making sense of our world. I’m interested in collective practice, co-design and independent publishing.

I currently work in a freelance capacity and at social impact organisation, YLab. Get in touch if you’d like to collaborate on a project.

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land in which I live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Merantau: Stories of Indonesian Food and Migration

Creative direction, publication design and editorial, 2026

Part-cookbook and part-anthropological document, Merantau: Stories of Indonesian Food and Migration brings together recipes and stories from nine Indonesian households living in Naarm/Melbourne.

Merantau—meaning to wander, journey or explore, an impermanent migration—reflects traditions of movement and exchange that have long shaped the Southeast Asian archipelago. The book situates contemporary migration stories within a much longer history of connection between Indonesia and Australia.

Printed in 4-colour riso by Glom Press
Written by Kris Redden and Natasya Salim
Photos by Emil Raji

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Merantau launched at the Melbourne Art Book Fair in 2026 and is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.