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

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VICE PRESIDENT

Lisa Chandler is an educator, writer and curator and is Adjunct Associate Professor in Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). She was foundation director of the USC Gallery and has curated numerous exhibitions including co-curating the award-winning East Coast Encounter: re-imagining 1770.  She has published widely on art, curatorship and visual culture and was the recipient of a curatorial research fellowship at the National Library of Australia. She is a Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy and has received university and national teaching awards. In 2009 she was awarded the Sunshine Coast Regional Council Australia Day Creative Award for services to regional creative industries.

(Image: Luch RC Photography)

Available for:
Exhibiting artist, Curator, Writer, Artist Panels & Talks

Lisa Chandler
Coolum, Qld & Jan Juc, Vic
Insta: lisacchandler  
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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     
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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.

www.marnistuart.com

image by Sarah Jane Smith, Your Life Photography

Grace comes to wild flowering from a science background, rather than art. She works as a conservation scientist and casual academic. Her creative work stems from the same themes of biodiversity and sustainability she explores in her research, with a focus on making science communication more engaging and accessible through visual storytelling and design.

https://graceponders.github.io/

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.

https://renatabuziak.com/

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
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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.  Davis 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

Donna Davis
Ipswich region, Qld
W https://donnadavisartist.weebly.com
VIMEO https://vimeo.com/user21172994
EMAIL

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
EMAIL

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  
EMAIL

DescriptUlrike 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
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