Virginia Dowzer
Creative, Curator, Project Manager
Virginia Dowzer’s career is a continuum of major projects, connecting people to brands and new products to consumer communities. For more than 30 years, Virginia has been using her high creative IQ to orchestrate experiences of quality and lasting value. Her project experience, creative development and deep professional relationships with industry cover the full spectrum from royal brands, luxury brands, educational institutes, industry, and government bodies, through to commissions and nurturing collaborations with new and emerging artists, designers, and makers.
Virginia takes ideas from blue sky creative concepts to full activation across every media and experiential platform: from art precincts to FMCG brands, runways, activations, and exhibitions to national TVCs and global campaigns. She understands the vital role of social movements, how they play out in our economy, in each of us personally and how what is ‘fashionable’ can capture and perfectly express the mood, climate, the essence of society at any given time. Her work also takes into consideration an innate understanding of how ‘fashionable’ sells. She was appointed a Good Design Ambassador in 2023, the program recognising Australian pioneers of good design and consists of leading designers, architects, business leaders and change makers who share an aspiration for designing a better world.
Words from colleagues —
Christian Wagstaff
Creative Director
Virginia has the sharpest eye I know. She has the ability to cast her mind across the wider picture of any project whilst seeing the importance in the detail and the subtleties. Her work is loaded with emotion and realness. She brings to the surface the beauty in everything.
Andi Ross
Creative Director
Virginia is the ultimate professional – undoubtedly one of Australia’s best creatives. She answers the brief, and then goes beyond what is expected, to bring a depth and new level you never knew you needed. I am constantly delighted and surprised by her work.
In addition to being a gifted visual communicator, Virginia is an authoritative and engaging public speaker. Her keynote presentation, delivered to a packed auditorium that included Board Members, CEO, staff and students, was powerful, passionate and right on point with its message. Ever the professional, Virginia had prepared meticulously, and her positivity left us feeling inspired and energised. When I work with Virginia I know that she will come at the creative in a very different way to anybody else in the industry, including myself. There is always a method to the way in which she works with depth and reason, and I have learnt to trust this implicitly.Julie Wright
Course Leader
Faculty of Design, Arts & ScienceBronwyn Kidd
Photographer