We had another great series of seminars at UniSC for Project Week.
This time we were honored with a visit from Lovework Studio
Campbell and Robyn Butler are branding experts, with rebrands for Griffith University, Trust, and GuestReady in their impressive portfolios. The students were gifted a wealth of knowledge about the Lovework branding process from in-depth user-centred research to the minute crafting of outputs.
Thank you, Campbell and Robyn, for your generous time and knowledge.
Wildflowering by Design opens at the Redland Art Gallery today. The work is hung beautifully and it’s great to see such a good local turn out. Thank you to curators Dr Sue Davis and Dr Lisa Chandlerfor your continued work on this project.
https://artgallery.redland.qld.gov.au/
I look forward to delivering the Patterns In Nature workshop there in May.
Bookings here
This project was made possible by funding from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. It is also supported through the Regional Arts Development Fund which is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Redland City Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
This week is Design Week at the University of the Sunshine Coast. It’s a space where we can bring in knowledge through industry to enhance the student’s learning processes. This week I was able to host two fantastic seminars.
The first was artist Rosie Lloyd-Giblett who shared with students her use of the elements and principles of design in her arts practice.
The second was by my husband Thom Stuart who is also the Senior Designer at UniSC. He shared with the students the process of rebranding, and using brand guidelines, using the uni’s own rebranding transition as a case study. Thank you to our guest speakers and to all the students who joined in.
We had an incredible week at the Wildflowering By Design Lab with Dr Sue Davis and Dr Lisa Chandler and a swathe of impressive, creative, artists.
Throughout the week we explored a collection of wildflower walks through Currimundi Lake (Kathleen McArthur) Conservation Park, Mooloolah River Nation Park, and the Glass House Mountains Scientific Reserve.
We then got to play with technology, exploring repeat patterning, 3D printing, projection and more at the UniSC Maker Space.
I thank all those who have helped prepare the workshop and look forward to what the crew will imagine throughout the upcoming months for the Wildflowering by Design exhibition at the Caloundra Regional Gallery.
This project was made possible by funding from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. It is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), a partnership between the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Sunshine Coast Council to support local artists and culture in regional Queensland.
Image 2: Mica Schettini (Instagram @mica_schettini )
I recently had the pleasure of delivering a workshop on Wildflowering for Patterning as part of Wildflowering at Cooloolah 2024.
Thank you to all the very keen and kind participants, to the lovely folk who keep these fantastic patches of land and to Dr Sue Davis, Dr Lisa Chandler, and Joolie Gibbs for organising.
This project was made possible by funding from the Queensland government through Arts Queensland. It is also supported through the Regional Arts Development Fund which is a partnership between the Queensland Government and the Gympie Regional Council to support arts and culture through regional Queensland.
Some images from Dr Sue Davis.
We had a great day exploring the Wildflowering Pattern Play workshop at the Bribie Island Seaside Museum with @wild_flower_women
We gathered together some beautiful florals and papers to explore the ways that botanicals can inspire patterns.Thank you to the team for having us and artist Edith Rewa for the Zine inspiration.
This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
It was fantastic to see the opening of Wildflowering By Design at the Bribie Seaside Museum today. The works by all artists looked spectacular. Thank you to curators Dr Sue Davis and Dr Lisa Chandler at to the Gallery staff for your hard work and support.
The Wildflowering by Design touring exhibition has arrived at the Warwick Art Gallery, running until May 4. Curated by Dr Sue Davis and Dr Lisa Chandler.
The tour is made possible by funding from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
My work ‘Another Unsuitable Replacement’ was shown as part of Le Plastique, a proud participant in the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival’s Independent Programme 2024. Shown at Ladro, Melbourne.
This week I started a new lecturer position at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
I am delighted to be able to join this institution on Gubbi Gubbi land. The team’s research centers on people and place, so I’m very keen to collaborate on future projects.
I am incredibly grateful for my ten years with Torrens University Australia where I have been given so many wonderful opportunities to grow my practice. I have had the pleasure to work alongside some incredible academic and non-academic staff. In particular the design team, lead by Russell Ponting, Mark O'Dwyer & Scott Thompson-Whiteside .
Mostly I am thankful for the chance to work with the thousands of students I have taught at Torrens, many of which I’m still in contact with. It has been a joy to bring design, history anid research to your lives.
I’m looking forward to building new connections with the UniSC family.
We have spent the month of November at the Surface/place Artist takeover at The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour alongside Nikita Fitzpatrick (New Dreaming Art) and Dr Sue Davis.
This initiative has been supported through the Creative Industries Investment Program and is jointly funded by ArtsCoast through Sunshine Coast Council’s Art and Heritage Levy and the Regional Arts Development Fund in partnership with Queensland Government.
It’s an absolute delight to be included in the 60th edition of Peppermint Magazine, on shelves now.
The piece profiles my work as a surface pattern designer, focusing on the learning I’ve gained through my PhD research, exploring response to place. All work shown is available now through Spoonflower.
Thank you Peppermint and Spoonflower for your support.
I am delighted to share these images with you from the 'Sea and Seeing' exhibition held as part of 'Wild Hope' at RMIT Design Hub last weekend. The immersive event refashioned single-use plastics into fashion garments. My work, 'Another Unsuitable Replacement’, depicted a repeat pattern of dune flowers applied to plastic produce bags that were sewn into fabric.
Thank you to Dr Denise Sprynskyj and Dr Peter Boyd of S!X for including my work. Model photography by Tiahne Frederic.
Tonight I was overjoyed to watch Gardening Australia celebrate the work of Dr Sue Davis OAM.
It was incredible to share the practice of wildflowering with Sue and the work of Kathleen McArthur.
The episode is now available on iView and the Gardening Australia website.
Thank you Gardening Australia and ABC TV.
Last year I was delighted to be invited to join in the filming of a Gardening Australia segment celebrating Dr Sue Davis OAM and her work honoring the legacy of Kathleen McArthur.
It was pure joy spending the day in the Kathleen McArthur reserve watching the Gardening Australia team at work, shooting and producing the segment.
The segment goes to air this Friday on the ABC, replayed on Saturday and will also be available through iView. I think if you watch closely I may appear in the scenery.
It’s a sheer delight to share the publication of the journal article “The art of wildflower walks: Understanding place through creative practice” co-authored with Dr Sue Davis.
The article, published in the International Journal of Education Through Art, shares the embodied experience of walking and creative enquiry as means of informing and stimulating art and design processes and practices.
Stuart, M. & Davis, S. (2023), The art of wildflower walks: Understanding place through creative practice, International Journal of Education through Art, 19:2, pp. 213–21, https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00127_3
Abstract:
Art and design processes and practices can inform and stimulate knowledge building in powerful ways. Artist/designer Marni Stuart and artist/curator Susan Davis have employed creative practice to inform their own seeing and knowing of the natural spaces that surround them in South East Queensland, Australia. Through art and design practice they seek to share ways for others to ‘see’, appreciate and value these natural habitats and wildflower heritage.
2023 has started strong with the news that I have achieved two of my 2022 career goals.
Much of last year was spent writing two documents about my teaching practice. The first was an application to advance to Senior Learning Facilitator at Torrens University, and the second was to become accredited as a Fellow for the Advance Higher Education fellowship.
I am ecstatic to announce that I am now a Senior Learning Facilitator (Senior Lecturer) and AHE Fellow. Now I must tuck my head in and return to work on my PhD.
The making of the Iluka Flannel Flowers has been a slow, winding journey, but I'm so happy to introduce her to you. The flannel flowers have been depicted in charcoal, soft sage and yellow. I originally met these flowers on a walk through the nature reserve near Iluka, NSW. The drawing of this piece took many months, with multiple breaks. After a long year, I needed a break. After a restful Summer, putting her into repeat was a breeze, completed in a single morning.
The Iluka Flannel Flowers are now available for licencing projects. Please visit my Patternfield page or contact me.
Last night I had the privilege of attending the Torrens University Australia INTRO graduate exhibition at our Brisbane Bowen Terrace campus.
It was incredible to see the amazing designs and photography created by our hard working students during their studies.
Thank you to all of the industry representatives who came along to see the incredible work.
Well done to the staff and students who went above and beyond to put the exhibition together. The image shown here is a surface pattern design created by our student Felixia Agatha for the Torrens University x Miss Shop ‘Introduces’ project.
Pattern Pulse 2 by Rachael King is launching soon. The publication promotes the work of 100 talented Australian surface designers; it is the follow up to Pattern Pulse 1, that I was proud to be featured in.
This time around I was honoured with the task of writing the foreword; It tells the story of first meeting Rachael as a newly graduated designer who was ready to take on the word of surface pattern design.
