The art of wildflower walks: Understanding place through creative practice

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.

Welcome Pattern Pulse 2

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.