Intro to our members

PRESIDENT

Dr Sue Davis OAM has decades of experience as an educator, facilitator, guide and creative practitioner. Over the past 7 years she has developed extensive knowledge of local wildflowers and walk locations across selected South East Queensland regions. Her wildflowering journey however started with art, culture and stories, including the stories of women she has come to call ‘wild/flower women’!

https://www.wildflowerwomen.net/

https://www.wildflowerwomen.com.au/

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.

SECRETARY

Joolie Gibbs is an Australian artist who finds inspiration in everyday people and the places that she lives and works in.  Her message is environmental, with a desire to be part of the solution rather than the problem - starting with her own backyard.   Born and raised in the Wide Bay area and a resident of Gympie for over 30 years, Joolie is an active advocate for the preservation of the Mary Valley and adjacent wallum country.  Her detailed and meticulous approach to every aspect of the production of her work is a reflection of the passion and research that inspires each piece. 

www.jooliegibbs.com.au/

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/

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Her deep concern for climate change and love of natural landscape is evidenced within her colourful, expressive works. Responsive to the natural environment, Rosie's energetic works invite the viewer in; "I want the viewer to smell the foliage, view the colour pathway and hear the tune of the natural world."

rosielloydgiblett.com.au/