Marni Stuart

Marni's research examines how responding to place, enabled by walking or inhabiting place, can ignite creative thought through Creative Practice Research. Through this Marni explores ways of thinking, with a focus on neurodivergence and its role in thinking systems.

She is the treasurer for The Wildflowering Collective Inc, a not-for-profit incorporated association established to support contemporary arts and cultural practice that engages with nature, place and ecological systems. Part of this journey is the creation of the "Wildflowering Design Lab", a community-based workshop that engages walking, drawing, and patterning in response to place. Marni is the facilitator and co-creator of this lab, sharing drawing and patterning practices, and methods for commercial printing. The Lab works as a capacity building project, extending existing practices into spaces that enable commercial outcomes.

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.

Teaching Areas

Marni Stuart has built her career as an applied researcher, educator. Her teaching practice focuses on the student’s story and sense of place as a starting point for their creative journey. At UniSC Marni is a a Course Coordinator and Lecturer in the fields of design thinking, design techniques, visual identity and visual communication.

HDR Supervision

Marni is interested in supervising projects that explore creative practice research, systems of thinking, and design processes.

Media Commentary

Special areas of knowledge include creative practice methodologies, walking and creative practice, conservation through creative practice.