Van Zon works in a wide variety of media: sculpture, tapestry, embroidery, beading, photography, stained glass, and ceramics.
Her practice is influenced by architecture; lost and abandoned objects, clothes, and places; film; novels; art history; pop culture; and the flow of information on the internet.
[3] Her installation at the Dowse Art Museum Coffee Perhaps, for example, was inspired by Helen Hitchings, a gallerist in 1950s New Zealand who ran the country's first modernist dealer gallery.
[2] As evidenced in this show, modes of presentation—shelves, plinths, wall hanging apparatuses—are part of van Zon's artwork and carefully considered in relation to the exhibition as a whole.
This was also evidenced in van Zon's 2016 exhibition Opal Moon, Local Lime at the Sarjeant Gallery.