Wildflowering by Design

Curated by Dr Sue Davis & Dr Lisa Chandler

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This exhibition explores contemporary responses to our botanical and wildflower heritage and presents works by Queensland female artists who work across the art and design spectrum. The exhibition celebrates the botanical environment through a design lens, exploring materiality, co-design, hand-crafting, and the digital realm, as well as functional and aesthetic dimensions contributing to a flourishing Australian environmental design culture.

In Wildflowering by Design contemporary women artists take a fresh look at the historical legacy, engage with local landscapes, and extend their practice to create new, re-imagined works, and a dynamic exhibition experience.

Artists include: Kathleen McArthur, Rose Barrowcliffe, Nai Nai Bird, Renata Buziak, Donna Davis, Joolie Gibbs, Anne Harris, Nicole Jankins, Shelley Pisani, Edith Rewa, Cara Ann Simpson, Marni Stuart, Emma Thorp & local artists in each location.

I am  thrilled to exhibit my wildflowers textiles

 as part of this exhibition.

I created the Granite Belt Wildflowers series during an artistic residency at Harrigans Lane on the Queensland Granite Belt. Local bush flowers, flickering in the sunlight and scattered across the beautiful and inspirational landscape, are the focus of this series.

In my studio I use an experimental photographic process I call the ‘biochrome’. This process is based on a fusion of organic and photographic materials subject to decomposition under specific conditions. Fusing art and science, I focus on the scattered—and often hidden—tiny blossoming plants that are there for the seeing if one truly looks, transforming them into large-scale portraits of life’s vast cycles of death and renewal.

Out of the Oblivion: Wildflowers of the Granite Belt catalogue, with an essay by Carol Schwarzman, and art activity for adults and children was available on my home page during exhibitions at Wondai and Warwick, please contact me directly if you’d like a free pdf. Hard copies and small prints on paper will be available at regional galleries during exhibitions and by contacting me directly.

You can view more details and other images from this series on my old website

What people have said about the Wildflowering by Design exhibition:

“Beautifully curated, really felt a sense of how close and bonded all the artists were, it seems they all had a beautiful shared experience being part of this exhibition and I haven’t seen another group exhibition with the same kind of friendship / closeness woven through like this one.” Exhibition visitor

For more reflections on the exhibition, contact details and exhibition review by Sandra Conte please visit:

Wild/flower Women

Get a copy of the Wildflowering by Design exhibition catalogue

This project is made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, provided through Regional Arts Australia, administered in Queensland by Flying Arts Alliance. The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government program that supports sustainable cultural development in regional and remote communities in Australia.

This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.