Inspired by the wild beauty of our native wildflowers and using art as a means to explore our relationships with nature, the Arts & Ecology Centre became an active making space where wild/flower women artists and facilitators connected, created and shared. Over the three week period artists participated in a ‘rolling’ residency, each documenting their own responses to the plants, lifeforms and landscapes of the gardens and contributing to a collective pop up exhibition.
We respectfully acknowledge the Kabi Kabi people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work, create and learn, and pay our respects to First Nations Peoples and their Elders, past, present and future.
This project has been developed by Wild/flower Women projects and supported by Sunshine Coast Council through provision of the residency space at the Arts & Ecology Centre and through RADF. The Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Sunshine Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
We respectfully acknowledge the Kabi Kabi people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work, create and learn, and pay our respects to First Nations Peoples and their Elders, past, present and future.
This project has been developed by Wild/flower Women projects and supported by Sunshine Coast Council through provision of the residency space at the Arts & Ecology Centre and through RADF. The Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Sunshine Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Wildflowering, Kinship, Creating exhibition publication
Workshops
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Wildflowering artwalk with Sue Davis
Saturday 09/10/2021 9.30-11.30 AM, Tues 12/10/2021 9.30-11:30 AM , OR Wed 27/10/21 9.30-11.30 AM The Inner Landscape workshop with Marvene Ash Monday 18/10/2021 9:00 -11:00:00 AM |
Marking Place with Anne Harris
Friday 22/10/2021 10:00 AM-12:30 PM Nature brush weaving and ink mark making with Chony Bowden Saturday 23/10/2021 2.00-4.00 PM Workshop Events and details are on Eventbrite |
Artists
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Susan Davis (Artist/Curator)
www.wildflowerwomen.com.au Sue Davis is an independent curator, teacher, artist, writer, researcher and facilitator. She has established ‘Wild/flower Women’ as a creative enterprise after departing academia after serving in various roles with CQUniversity including arts lecturer and Deputy Dean Research. Sue has extensive experience in arts leadership, participatory process, community engagement, trans-disciplinary creative practice and writing. She has been involved in the creative scene across the coast in a number of roles, including as a board member of the Creative Arts Alliance, Pecha Kucha Night coordinator and past President for Sunshine Coast Creative alliance. She is co-curator of the ‘Wild/flower Women” series of exhibitions which have featured the work of women artists responding to nature. This work draws inspiration from Kathleen McArthur and other ‘wild/flower women’ whose efforts have helped ensure national parks and reserves were created and our native wildflowers protected. Sue’s arts practice focusses on engaging with place, with a particular love of wildflowers, working with diverse media including inks made from natural materials. |
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Marni Stuart
https://www.marnistuart.com/ @marnistuart 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. Marni is also a lecturer with the Billy Blue School of Design, Torrens University has delivered a range of design ideation, design history, design thinking, fashion design and textile design subjects to a vast variety of students from different disciplines. Marni is also studying for her PhD, examining how the use of botanical observation within a practice can work as an act of environmental conservation. Marni’s work will be featured in the ‘Wildflowering by Design: Wild/flower Women IV’ exhibition at Bundaberg in November 2021. |
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Marvene Ash
http://marveneash.com/ @marvene_ash Marvene Ash is a multi-award winning artist who exhibits on a regular basis from ‘The Fourth Garage’ Studio Gallery in Maleny. Her work is strongly personal and a direct response to objects and the natural environment. Her work expresses an empathetic interest within domestic and landscape themes. She works in all painting and drawing mediums but has a preference for the gestural potential of gouache on paper. Before moving to the Sunshine Coast she worked as an art teacher and exhibiting artist on the Central Queensland Coast and her work there is represented in the Bundaberg City Centre Regional Gallery. Marvene was one of the artists featured in the Wildflower/Women II exhibition at the Caloundra Gallery in 2018. |
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Anne Harris www.anneh.com.au Through performance, installation, textiles and works on paper, Anne uses plants and detritus from the natural environment to make inks, dyes and installations. This work creates space to understand the interconnected and unspoken life force that is in all beings. The process creates a direct conversation between identity, self and place. Anne’s work discusses notions of connection and belonging, particularly in relation to women reclaiming sovereignty of self. Initially training as a fashion designer, Anne then pursued other avenues, including a Certificate in Fine Art (Drawing), Sculpture at Tom Bass, the foundation year of a Bachelor in Fine Art at Sydney’s College of the Arts, and various other workshops and master classes to learn the art of craft. She now divides her time between her creative practice and the study of women’s mysteries, each informing the other. Anne’s work has been shortlisted for many local and international art prizes, and is held in private Australian Collections. She is also Founder of “Tree Place” a community creative project collaborating with an ancient tree. (Image Charmaine Lyons) |
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Chony Bowden
www.chonysartroom.com Chony is an experienced QCT registered Visual Arts educator with over 20 years teaching experience in a variety of locations some of which include; remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, England and Melbourne. Currently, she is the director of Chony’s Art Room, which is a business that prides itself on delivering Visual Arts Workshops for all ages and spaces across the Sunshine Coast. Specifically tailored workshops are designed to suit the creative interests, educational requirements and therapeutic needs of each individual participant in her care. |
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Ketakii Jewson-Brown (Artist/photographer)
https://www.ketakiijewsonbrown.com/
Ketakii is a Sunshine Coast based photographer whose images play with notions of reality whilst investigating the body politic along a gradient from the naturalistic to the absurd. Using photography, mixed media, collage and animation her work poses questions about biases and ideas related to societal norms. Ketakii has exhibited at Horizon Festival in 2018, in 2020 at Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre and at the The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra both in 2008 and in 2015. Ketakii will be visiting the artists at various time to capture aspects of the process.
https://www.ketakiijewsonbrown.com/
Ketakii is a Sunshine Coast based photographer whose images play with notions of reality whilst investigating the body politic along a gradient from the naturalistic to the absurd. Using photography, mixed media, collage and animation her work poses questions about biases and ideas related to societal norms. Ketakii has exhibited at Horizon Festival in 2018, in 2020 at Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre and at the The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra both in 2008 and in 2015. Ketakii will be visiting the artists at various time to capture aspects of the process.
