Wildflowering by Design - Warwick Art Gallery - March 28 - 4 May 2024
The ‘Wildflowering by Design’ exhibition will be on show at Warwick Art Gallery from the Easter Weekend, with a series of special events on Saturday 30 March.
The Wildflowering by Design touring exhibition presents works by Queensland artists who work across the art and design spectrum, taking a fresh look at our botanical and wildflower heritage.
For this show, exhibition artists who hail from across South-East Queensland engaged with local landscapes, plants and stories to create new works across the art and design spectrum. Work by other artists from the Southern Downs will contribute to a local component of the show, following through on workshops that were held at Warwick in November 2023.
The exhibition is curated by Dr Sue Davis & Dr Lisa Chandler.
Artists include: Rose Barrowcliffe, Nai Nai Bird, Renata Buziak, Donna Davis, Joolie Gibbs, Anne Harris, Nicole Jakins, Shelley Pisani, Edith Rewa, Cara Ann Simpson, Marni Stuart, Emma Thorp.
Local artists include: Barbara Stephenson, Corina Graham, Hilda Bryzenski, Leeanne Konstantinou, Leonie Harrison & Stephanie McCosker
Opening – Saturday 30 March, from 12.00 pm
Followed by Curator/artist talk at 1.00 pm
With co-curators Dr Sue Davis and Dr Lisa Chandler and exhibiting artists including Dr Renata Buziak and Cara-Ann Simpson
(Free but please register for catering purposes - booking link here)
Walk on Country – from 2.30 pm, $10 + booking fee (booking link here)
(at Nyalar Mirungan-ah Nature Refuge at North Branch Maryvale)
Guests will be welcomed to Githabul Country with a dance performance by Sharman Apununga Parsons depicting a Tree Hopper clinging to a branch. We will then walk for a couple of hundred metres along a track beside the flowing and well-vegetated North Branch Creek, where Sharman will talk about some of the ways in which her People viewed the land and the landscape, and we will point out natural features in the stream and the plants, including some traditional uses. Finally we will return to our meeting place and enjoy refreshments of food with bush food flavours including Lemon Myrtle tea.
Please note: This event will take place at Nyalar Mirungan-ah Nature Refuge at North Branch Maryvale. Guests are responsible for organising their own transport too and from the site. An address and directions will be provided once your ticket has been purchased.
Guests must wear comfortable, closed-in footwear and be able to walk for several hundred metres on uneven ground.
The 'Wildflowering by Design' exhibition and public programs are supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, as well as Wild/flower Women Projects and Warwick Art Gallery.
The Wildflowering by Design touring exhibition presents works by Queensland artists who work across the art and design spectrum, taking a fresh look at our botanical and wildflower heritage.
For this show, exhibition artists who hail from across South-East Queensland engaged with local landscapes, plants and stories to create new works across the art and design spectrum. Work by other artists from the Southern Downs will contribute to a local component of the show, following through on workshops that were held at Warwick in November 2023.
The exhibition is curated by Dr Sue Davis & Dr Lisa Chandler.
Artists include: Rose Barrowcliffe, Nai Nai Bird, Renata Buziak, Donna Davis, Joolie Gibbs, Anne Harris, Nicole Jakins, Shelley Pisani, Edith Rewa, Cara Ann Simpson, Marni Stuart, Emma Thorp.
Local artists include: Barbara Stephenson, Corina Graham, Hilda Bryzenski, Leeanne Konstantinou, Leonie Harrison & Stephanie McCosker
Opening – Saturday 30 March, from 12.00 pm
Followed by Curator/artist talk at 1.00 pm
With co-curators Dr Sue Davis and Dr Lisa Chandler and exhibiting artists including Dr Renata Buziak and Cara-Ann Simpson
(Free but please register for catering purposes - booking link here)
Walk on Country – from 2.30 pm, $10 + booking fee (booking link here)
(at Nyalar Mirungan-ah Nature Refuge at North Branch Maryvale)
Guests will be welcomed to Githabul Country with a dance performance by Sharman Apununga Parsons depicting a Tree Hopper clinging to a branch. We will then walk for a couple of hundred metres along a track beside the flowing and well-vegetated North Branch Creek, where Sharman will talk about some of the ways in which her People viewed the land and the landscape, and we will point out natural features in the stream and the plants, including some traditional uses. Finally we will return to our meeting place and enjoy refreshments of food with bush food flavours including Lemon Myrtle tea.
Please note: This event will take place at Nyalar Mirungan-ah Nature Refuge at North Branch Maryvale. Guests are responsible for organising their own transport too and from the site. An address and directions will be provided once your ticket has been purchased.
Guests must wear comfortable, closed-in footwear and be able to walk for several hundred metres on uneven ground.
The 'Wildflowering by Design' exhibition and public programs are supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, as well as Wild/flower Women Projects and Warwick Art Gallery.
