Marni the PhD Candidate
I am partway through a practice-based PhD from the RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles exploring making as a response to place within a surface patterning practice. To answer this, the research uses the methods of observation, drawing, and walking through place.
Publications
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
Download: Author copy
Stuart, M. (2022). Foreword. In. King, R. Pattern Pulse Volume 2. Pattern Pulse Press.
Stuart, M. (2021) Unsuitable Replacement. See and Seaing Exhibition, Melbourne Design Week Online.
Stuart, M. (2021) Planting the seed for survival: how botanical art can cure plant blindness. In. Crothers, Wayne. Golden Shells and the Elegant Games of Japan. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Exhibitions + Residencies
Wild/flower Women IV: Wildflowering by Design Touring Exhibition – 2023-2025 Website
Redland Art Gallery, 4 Apr - 3 June 2025
Dogwood Crossing @ Miles, 25 Jul - 13 Sept 2025
Caloundra Regional Gallery, 16 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
Pattern Play Workshop Delivery: Wildflowering at Cooloolah – Wildflowering by Design Touring Exhibition Gympie local artists exhibitors retreat funded through the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, a Regional Arts Development Fund Grant and Gympie Regional Council.
Pattern Play Workshop Delivery – Bribie Island Seaside Museum for Wildflowering by Design Touring Exhibition. Supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
La Plastique – Exhibition curated by Dr Denise Sprinskyj and Dr Peter Boyd, PayPal Melbourne Fashion Week, 2024
Surface/Place: Artist in Residence, Residency and exhibition, Old Ambulance Station, Nambour, with Nikita Fitzpatrick (New Dreaming Art) and Dr Sue Davis, Nov, 2023
Wild Hope – Exhibition curated by Dr Denise Sprinskyj and Dr Peter Boyd, Design Hub Gallery, RMIT, 2023
Wild/flower Women IV: Wildflowering by Design – Exhibition and workshops held at the Hervey Bay Regional Art Gallery, 2022
Wild/flower Women IV: Wildflowering by Design – Exhibition and workshops held at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, 2021
Wildflowering, Kinship and Creativity: Artist in Residence – Residency and exhibition, Maroochydore Botanical Gardens Eco lodge funded by the Regional Arts Development Fund, hosted by Dr Sue Davis, 2021
Sea and Seeing – Online Exhibition held as part of Melbourne Design Week, hosted by the National Gallery of Victoria, 2021
Creative Arts Alliance – Artist in Residence - Collaboration and residency with Thomas Stuart, 2020