[1][3] In a 1883 Fine Arts Association exhibition, she presented line engravings The Reader and The Winder which were reviewed as "original as to the coloring, which is excellent, and entirely in accord with the subject and the school the pictures belong to.
[1] She also frequently exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1897.
[1][3] In 1899, Blackett exhibited thirty watercolours at Messrs. McGregor, Wright and Co. from her several months in Fiji.
[6] At the Canterbury Society of Arts in 1900, Blackett exhibited a watercolour, Alpinao, Fiji, from the same trip.
[10] Houston died in 1953, and in her will, she established the John Blackett Award at the University of Canterbury in memory of her father.