of locations across New South Wales from 1980 to 1988. From the late 1980s Binns taught painting and drawing at the University of Sydney Art Workshop, the Tin Sheds. In 1994 she taught painting and drawing at Charles Sturt University at Albury. She then moved to Canberra to take up a lecturing position at the Canberra School of Art (later amalgamated with the Australian National University as the ANU Institute of the Arts), teaching several subjects. In 1990 Binns travelled to central Australia and learnt some of the creation stories, art and culture from Pitjantjara women. Also in 1990, In 1990, she was awarded an Australian Arts Creative Fellowship, enabling her to undertake a three-year research project about the cultural link between Australia and the Asia-Pacific. In 1991, Binns spent time in Tokyo on an Australia Council residency, and later attended three South Pacific Festivals of the Arts, in Raratonga (1992), Western Samoa (1996) and Noumea (2000). These led to a significant amount of work which included references to Captain James Cook and the artists who travelled with him, and incorporating patterns of tapa cloth, the traditional bark cloth of the Pacific region. In 1995 she started producing her extensive series entitled In Memory of the Unknown Artist, honouring the artistic endeavours of people not generally considered to be artists, such as designers of fabric, linoleum, carpet and bathroom tiles; housewives; traditional craftspeople; street artists and hobby artists. She continued to create artworks in this series through the 2000s. In 2000, she was resident in the Australia Council Studio in London and, in 2001, again visited Europe assisted by an ANU Faculties Research Grant. In 2002 Binns travelled to the Kimberleys, afterwards including imagery relating to the landscape of the area, sometimes combined with Cook-related imagery and patterned surfaces. In 2003, she collaborated with Geoff Newton and Derek O'Connor on a series of split canvases. She retired from teaching in 2012. Binns held a solo exhibition It Is What It Is at the Sutton Gallery, by whom she is represented, in Melbourne in 2018. In 2019 Vivienne Binns was interviewed in a digital story and oral history for the State Library of Queensland's James C Sourris AM Collection. In the interview Binns talks about her life, her art and her inspirations. , aged 81, she still works and paints in her studio, although at a slower pace and sometimes intermittently;