We are excited to share a wonderful new collection of wildflower-inspired designs from this coming Friday at Galley Lane in Coolum!!

‘Design Wilds’ features imagery inspired by our local wildflowers. It includes works by artists who participated in workshops and wildflower walks as part of a Design Lab at UniSC earlier this year.

It’s currently peak wildflower season and the wallum heathlands around the Sunshine Coast & beyond are ablaze with colourful blooms. This exhibition aims to celebrate these important plants of place that are part of the special ecologies of our local area.

The designs are repeat patterns so they can be repurposed as prints on posters, fabrics, clothing and accessories. We hope that by being surrounded by wildflowers in our daily lives, we might raise awareness so that we seek to protect them.

‘Design Wilds’ is curated by Sue Davis, Marni Stuart and Lisa Chandler.

Come see the exhibition in Galley Lane, Coolum from this coming Friday through to mid-September. (Galley Lane is an initiative of the Coolum Art Project, Coolum Residents Association).

If you’d like to join a wildflower walk, see Wild/flower Women Projects on Eventbrite.

Our poster features designs by our ‘Wildflowering Design Lab 2026’ participants, and facilitators/curators

Leighanne McHugh, Samantha Taylor, Sarah Smith, Tigerlily Boyce, Bronwyn Davies

Lisa Chandler, Rosie Lloyd-Giblett, Sue Connor, Sue Davis, Catherine Haigh

Cecile Bell, Amelia Tilly, Dimitie Smith, Helen Evans, Jen Conde

Marni Stuart, Anna Hanssen, Donna Condon, Hope O’Chin, Karina Sharpe

(also in the exhibition Cynthia Lee & Grace Smith)

This project was made possible by funding from the Grants Program Sunshine Coast Council. It is also supported by The Wildflowering Collective Inc and UniSC.