Intro to our members

PRESIDENT

Dr Sue Davis OAM has decades of experience as an educator, facilitator, curator and creative practitioner. 10 years ago she initiated the 'Wild/Flower Women' suite of projects and exhibitions, which have had a focus on building awareness and understanding of Queensland’s native wildflowers and the role of art/creativity for wellbeing and sustainable futures. Alongside the arts-based work, she has developed extensive knowledge of local wildflowers and walk locations across selected South East Queensland regions.

(Image: Lucy RC Photography)              

Available for:
Workshop facilitation, Guided walks, Artist residency, Arts activation projects, Curation, Talks, Project management, Arts Writing and Evaluation.

Wildflower walks and walkshops (with drawing) Sunshine Coast and beyond. Workshop including paper lanterns. Teaching and arts management qualifications, QCT teacher registration and Blue Card exemption card, NAVA insurance.

Susan Davis  
Eumundi, Qld
W https://www.wildflowerwomen.net/
https://www.wildflowerwomen.com.au/

F: wildflowerwomenaustralia
I: @wild_flower_women

VICE PRESIDENT

Dr Lisa Chandler is an artist, curator, writer and Adjunct Associate Professor at UniSC in the Creative Ecologies Research Cluster. Her environmentally focused creative practice is informed by walking, sensing and learning about natural environments. Lisa was foundation director of the UniSC Gallery and has extensive curatorial experience including co-curation of the touring exhibition Wildflowering by Design. She has held numerous exhibitions and published widely on art and environment.    

(Image: Luch RC Photography)

Available for:
Workshop facilitation, Guided walks, Exhibition artist, Artist residency, Arts activation projects, Workshops, Arts writing, Curation. Extensive teaching experience, personal PL insurance.

Lisa Chandler
Mt Coolum, Qld & Jan Juc, Vic
W: Cool Art Gallery Artists
I: lisacchandler  

SECRETARY

Joolie Gibbs enjoys being provincial as a regional Queensland artist living and creating in Gympie (Kabi Kabi Country). Gibbs completed her Master of Art in Visual Art (MAVA) in 2014 at Griffith University Queensland College of Art and is influenced by walking and documenting her natural surroundings through the connections with the Mary River and the region. From insects, her 5-acre property, the Wallum, big trees and forests and the effects of floods she finds meaning and direction for her practice. Her aim is to be part of the solution rather than the problem in her own small way.

(Image: Cody)

Available for:
Workshop facilitation, Guided walks, Exhibition artist, Artist residency, Arts activation projects, Talks             

 Workshops - drawing, botanical, botanical inks in Gympie/Cooloola area, Sunshine Coast. Has extensive Gallery experience. Blue card & personal PL insurance.            

Joolie Gibbs  
Gympie, Qld                                
W: www.jooliegibbs.com.au
I: @joolie31     

TREASURER

As a child Marni dreamed of growing up to be a rainbow farmer, she has since built a multifaceted practice working as a surface pattern designer, researcher, and design educator. Her patterning practice is inspired by regionalism and sense of place and celebrates the overlooked wildflowers of the wallum coastal heathland.

(image by Sarah Jane Smith, Your Life Photography)

Available for:
Workshop facilitation, Exhibition artist, Artist residency, Arts activation projects,Pattern play workshop. Teaching experience, AHE Fellowship, Blue Card, PL Insurance.

Marni Stuart  
Battery Hill, Sunshine Coast
W: www.marnistuart.com
I: marnistuart/

HONORARY MEMBER

Dr Hope O’Chin (Neill) is a Kabi Kabi/Wakka Wakka/Koa/GuguYalanji educator and artist, who has worked in education in roles from teacher-aide, to teacher and Director (Education Queensland, Catholic Education and MCYEETA), a tutor and lecturer and as a professional artist from 1991. She has developed and presented artworks through her studio art practice for over 40 exhibitions across local, national and international venues and forums. Hope has been awarded a Doctor of Education and Dr of Philosophy through UniSC.  Hope also served on numerous Statutory Boards within Queensland including QAG. Aunty Hope is also a founding Director of The Hope Dreaming Foundation. In 2026 she was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the Indigenous community as an artist and educator.

CO-OPTED BOARD MEMBER

Dr Grace studies conservation genetics for short-range heathland invertebrates. She tutors at the University of the Sunshine Coast in climate change, environmental economics, invertebrate biology, and animal evolution, and is involved in citizen science outreach, art and storytelling programs for school, university, and community groups around southeast Queensland.                 

Available for:
Workshop facilitation, Guided walks, Exhibition artist, Artist residency, Arts activation projects, Science-based workshops. Has a blue card & teaching experience.

Grace Smith  
Hunchy/Sunshine Coast                       
W: https://graceponders.github.io/
I: @graceponders

Dr Renata Buziak is a biochrome artist, researcher and educator working at the intersection of art and science, with a deep interest in plants and the natural world. Her photographic research is grounded in flora and organic processes. By bending the rules of traditional photography and allowing photographic materials to interact with organic matter over time, Renata developed a unique process she calls the biochrome. This alternative photographic approach merges art and science, revealing the cycle of life and decay, and fostering deeper connection with nature and well-being.

Available for:
Workshop facilitation, Exhibition artist, Artist residency, Arts activation projects. Has teaching experience and PL insurance.

Renata Buziak
Brisbane/Minjerribah
W: https://renatabuziak.com/
I: @renatabuziak

Bronwyn Davies is an Australian contemporary artist and cultural practitioner with a focus on environmental art, place-based practice, and cultural development. She holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Arts from the University of Tasmania. Her work is grounded in environmental art and place-based inquiry. Her practice moves between drawing, painting, stitched media, and writing—poetry, prose, and essays—to explore the layered relationships between people, landscape, memory, and ecological systems.

Available for:
Exhibition artist, Artist residency, Arts activation projects

Bronwyn Davies          
Tambourine Mountain, Qld   
W: www.bronwyndavies.studio
F: bronwyndavies.studio
I: @bronwyndaviesstudio

donna davis is a multi-disciplinary artist who examines human and non-human relationships with respect to ecological health. Exploring the intersections between art and science she is often embedded within ecological research projects. Using sculpture, digital media and installation her work tells stories that examine the science through a creative lens, exploring imagined futures and constructing new ways of ‘seeing’ complex natural systems and our role within them.  Ddavis has undertaken a number of residencies, including: Queensland State Archives, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science and the Australian Tropical Herbarium and University of Miami. davis has works held in public and private collections and has exhibited widely with her work feature in state and national touring exhibitions.

Available for:
Exhibiting artist, Artist residency, Arts activation projects, Talks, Art/Science collaborations.

donna davis
Raceview, Qld
W: https://donnadavisartist.weebly.com
I: @ecoart_dd
VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/user21172994

Fiona Harding (Spirit You) is an interdisciplinary Australian artist based in Namba/Nambour. Her practice explores the relationship between the physical and the spiritual. Working across painting, installation, sculpture, media, and performance, Harding employs a multidisciplinary approach to express a deep reverence for nature and its living presence, translating spiritual experience into tangible form.

Available for:
Workshop facilitation, Exhibition artist, Artist residency, Arts activation projects            

I have personal PL insurance. I also have a 1–2 hour fabric flower-making workshop ready to go.

Fiona Harding
Nambour, QLD 4560
W: https://www.spirityou.com/
I: @spirityou

Rosie’s environmental art practice seeks to create sensory experiences from within the landscapes she visits. Part of her art process is to combine multiple perspectives within the work. Rosie’s paintings, drawings and assemblages include the views of birds, murmuration’s from within the landscape and the natural textures of the environment. She creates portholes and the organic entanglement within layers of paint, paper and surfaces that one can step into and discover.            

Available for:
Workshop facilitation, Exhibition artist, Artist residency, Arts activation projects. QCT registered teacher, Bluecard, available for individual mentoring and workshops

Rosie Lloyd-Giblett 
Noosaville, Qld                   
W: https://rosielloydgiblett.com.au
I: @rosielloydgiblett  

Ulrike Sturm is a visual artist working predominantly in printmedia, including artist books, linocuts, wood engravings and more. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Sydney, Canberra, Berlin, New York and Tokyo, as well as in regional galleries across South East Queensland. She is passionate about the importance of protecting our natural environment, and believes that the Wildflowering Collective Inc can play an important role sharing knowledge through creativity.        
(Image: Jazmyn Arte)      

Available for:
Workshop facilitation (printmaking specialist), Exhibition artist, Arts activation project.
Broad teaching experience, particularly in the tertiary sector.

Ulrike Sturm 
Castaways Beach, Qld

Jasmine Veronique is a Sunshine Coast–based fine artist working primarily in oils. Her paintings explore wildness through local wildflowers and flora-scapes, grounded in the Wallum landscape. Her debut solo exhibition, The Dance of the Wildflowers (2025), marked a pivotal moment in her practice. Jasmine is a finalist in multiple national art prizes, with work held in private collections across Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.             

Available for:
Guided walks, Exhibition artist, Artist residency

Jasmine Veronique  
Ninderry QLD   
W: www.jasmineveronique.art
I: @jasmineveroniqueartist