Longueville Media
Hidden in Plain Sight
Seeing the unseen in nature, the arts, and architecture
In Hidden in Plain Sight: Seeing the unseen in nature, the arts, and architecture, biographer and architectural historian Zeny Edwards invites readers into a meditative journey where language, nature, art, and architecture converge.
Non‑linear and fragmentary, Zeny's essays argue that true meaning lives in the absence beneath the layers of time and space, in the periphery, in the silence, and in the interplay of light and dark. She delves deeply into the intricacies of specificity, hyper-reality, antithesis and the essence of being present.
Zeny believes that by adopting the practice of “slow looking”, we can transform moments of everyday life into new and meaningful ways of enriching our connection with the world and ourselves.
About the author
Dr Zeny Edwards OAM is an architectural historian, award-winning biographer, cultural heritage consultant and human rights advocate. She has published biographies and monographs of Australian architects John Sulman and William Hardy Wilson and photographers Harold Cazneaux and Max Dupain, among others. She is noted for her architectural histories of historic properties in Australia and overseas.
Dr Edwards has served in various lead roles: she is the immediate past-president of the Australian Council for Human Rights Education, and was president of the National Trust of Australia (NSW), chair of UN Women Australia (NSW), and director of the UN Association of Australia Peace Program. She currently serves as President of the Institute for Global Peace and Sustainable Governance, Coordinator of International Relations at Australian Graduate Women, and member of the board of the Museum of Understanding Through Tolerance and Inclusion.
Dr Edwards has been involved with Museums of History NSW since 2001. She is passionate about supporting the next generation of scholars by providing them with opportunities to explore the history of NSW through our places, collections and archives, supplementing their university studies with hands-on research under the guidance of industry professionals.
Zeny Edwards
Published March 2026
Hardcover
192 pages
175 mm x 230mm
ISBN 9781764407236
