With maternal connections to Girrimay mob from North Queensland, born on Turrbal land, Marianne Wobcke is a nurse, midwife and award-winning artist. Her program of culturally connected birthing practices and trauma recovery is grounded in radical creativity, aiming to break the cycles of trauma that are the inheritance of colonial violence in Indigenous Australian communities.

Marianne is the 2021 recipient of the Australia Council Ros Bower Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development. She is currently a PhD Candidate with Griffith University’s School of Health Sciences & Social work  and QCA – conducting arts/health based research.