Marni Stuart | UniSC | University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Marni Stuart has built her career as an applied researcher, educator, and practitioner at Torrens University, the College of Fine Art, UNSW and the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her teaching practice focuses on the student’s story and sense of place as a starting point for their creative journey. Marni is undertaking a creative practice PhD with the RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles. The research examines how responding to site, enabled by walking or inhabiting place, has informed her use of observation as an ignition for practice. Through Marni’s design practice, she creates surface patterns that celebrate the native habitats of the Sunshine Coast through the depiction of endemic florals. The works are informed by walks through the bushland, to reflect the experience of being within place.