Exhibition essays 
2020 Exhibition essay/publication
Women, Culture and Connectedness
2018 Exhibition essay 
Intimate Knowings - Wild/flower Women II exhibition essay 

Articles
Davis, Susan (2020). Wildflowering culture: Kathleen McArthur and creating a popular wildflower consciousness’, The Australasian Journal of Popular, Culture, 9:1, pp. 67–82.

Davis, Susan. (2019). Wandering and Wildflowering - Walking with Women into Intimacy and Ecological Action. M/C Journal, 22 (4). 
Davis, Susan. (2019). Kathleen McArthur - Wild/flower Woman. Online exhibition (documentation). Fryer Library, University of Queensland. ​

Davis, Susan. (2019). "Hidden women of History: Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen". The Conversation. 31 January 2019. 

Video
The video below was created for the 'Wild/flower Women II' exhibition. It introduces Kathleen McArthur and her work and then features imagery of wild/flowers and plants drawn from Kathleen's slide collection. 
Photos courtesy of: Hugh McArthur, Fryer Library - University of Queensland, Meredith McKinney, Wendy Gordon, Alexandra Moreno, Judy Nelson-Gracie & Tessa Nelson, Wildlife Qld - Caloundra Branch. Music: Reverie, by Debussy, performed by Louise King & Pascal Roge for Cello Dreaming Gymnopadie by Satie, performed by Francisco Tores Here Me Are (Max's Lullaby) by Andrew Veivers

Education booklet 
Activity booklet created by Sue Davis, Ulrike Sturm & Nina Shadforth Education/activity booklet 

Wildflowering and Hiromi Tango's Healing garden

In early 2021 it was wonderful to collaborate with artist Hiromi Tango and Megan Williams of USC Art Gallery on developing a Sunshine Coast Healing Garden. A number of  workshops were held at USC Art Gallery in association with the 'Craftivism, Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms' exhibition - a Shepparton Art Museum exhibition, curated by Anna Briers and Rebecca Coates, touring nationally by NETS Victoria. 
Hiromi Tango created an initial education resource with information about her work and process, and instructions on how to create four paper flowers for a healing garden. 
'A Sunshine Coast Wildflowering Inspiration' package was created as a phase II. This includes a reflective essay and collection of wildflowers that have been in bloom over the summer months. 
Click on the resource cover images below to download the education resources.

Wild/flower Women II - images and credits 

Image credits for images right and below:
‘Embodied wallum’ Anne Harris 2018  Photo by Sam Frysteen
‘Kathleen with hat’, Ulrike Sturm 2018, illustration for free-cut vinyl installation
'Christmas Bells' Kathleen McArthur, courtesy of Fryer Library, University of Qld and McArthur Collection
Sue Davis with Bettina Walter ‘Wildflowering at Girraween’
Sue Davis with Ulrike Sturm ‘Wildflowering at Emu Mountain’

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Pecha Kucha Night presentation 2017 - Wasteland or wonderland – art, activism and wildflower women! 
PRESENTED ON SEP 20, 2017 
IN SUNSHINE COAST @ VOL 23Queensland’s native wildflowers have often been overlooked and undervalued and if it hadn’t been for the efforts of artists and activists they would have been lost forever. In this presentation, Sue Davis will share examples of artistry and activism that drove efforts to reduce the loss of the unique wallum heathlands of the Sunshine Coast. The work of ‘wild/flower women’ such as writer/artist Kathleen McArthur and famous Australian poet Judith Wright helped profile these special environments.  Sue believes that finding out about what they did can still inspire us today.
Art works, books, ephemera & some photographs courtesy of:
•Hugh McArthur
•Alexandra Moreno
•Meredith McKinney
•The Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library 
(and the presenter)!