Grace: A Prayer For Peace

I have an idea, I’m in love with that idea. I want to see what it looks like, so I have to make the work. If it’s good, it won’t go away.

– Robin White on being compelled to create her art

I think the paintings are a bit like us human beings. We're born with what we have, and we have to set out into the world with it, and make the most of it you know.

– Robin White on her landscape paintings

Sometimes, when I'm making a film, I try to make the idea go away because I know it's going to be hard to find financial backing. With 'Grace' I had an added impediment, which was the head injury. So I wasn't exactly leaping to it. But it was like being on a beach, when you quite casually pick up a stone and you turn it over and it reveals treasure. You pick up another: more treasure and you find that your idea has landed in very rich territory. The more I found out about Robin's work, particularly her later work, I felt like that.

– Gaylene Preston on taking on the project, The Post, 26 July 2025

I didn’t know anything about making a film. I like going to movies, that's all I knew, and it was wonderful to be welcomed into her process. 

– Robin White on working with Gaylene Preston, The Post, 26 July 2025.