Robyn Glade-Wright is a practicing contemporary artist and arts educator who has presented over 40 solo exhibitions in public and private galleries. In 2018, Glade-Wright installed Microplastics Found in Human Embryo on the exterior of the Cairns Institute, James Cook University. The work created from 1000 recycled plastic bottles calls attention to the role humans have played in climate change and environmental pollution. Glade-Wright lectures in visual art, philosophy of the arts, creativity and innovation.

 

 

 

Teaching

• NM1810: Introduction to Creativity and Innovation (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• NM2002: Visual Arts: Image and Imagination (Level 2; CNS)
• NM3904: Philosophy of the Arts and the Reflective Practitioner (Level 3; TSV)

Interests

Research

• Research and Teaching

Research Disciplines

• Visual arts (3606)

Awards

• 2016 - Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

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Journal Articles

• Glade-Wright R (2020) The persistence of plastic: environmental public art and micro-plastic pollution. PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, 15 (2020), Article: 2, pp. 16-22, DOI:10.26180/13461410.v1.
• Glade-Wright R and Scotcher J (2020) Wandering through paint in the wet tropics. Creative Industries Journal, 13 (3), pp. 276-287, DOI:10.1080/17510694.2019.1685303.
• Glade-Wright R (2019) Plastic Gothic: Frankenstein, art and the microplastic monster. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 18 (2), pp. 68-80, DOI:10.25120/etropic.18.2.2019.3707.
• Van Luyn A and Glade-Wright R (2018) Changing tertiary landscapes for the artist-academic: towards a framework for nurturing creative arts research beyond the PhD. Text, 51 (Special Issue).
• Glade-Wright R and Sorin R (2017) Opportunity to learn to see the world from a new angle: the impact of international art study tours on creative arts students' learning. The International Journal of Arts Education, 12 (2), pp. 19-29, DOI:10.18848/2326-9944/CGP/v12i02/19-29.
• Glade-Wright R (2016) New insights effectively shared: originality and new knowledge in Creative Arts postgraduate degrees. Qualitative Research Journal, 17 (2), pp. 89-98, DOI:10.1108/QRJ-04-2016-0023 .
• Glade-Wright R (2016) Tidelines: creative vision, ecology and the tropics. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 15 (1), pp. 15-25.
• Glade-Wright R (2016) Patterns, pleasure, and the age of digital reproduction. International Journal of Designed Objects, 10 (1), pp. 1-10.
• Glade-Wright R (2016) Uncertain futures: coral bleaching and the loss of innocence, beauty and the sublime. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 15 (1), pp. 39-49.
• Dover B and Glade-Wright R (2015) The cry of beauty: ethics and aesthetics in a contemporary art context. The International Journal of Arts Theory and History, 11 (1), pp. 23-32.
• Glade-Wright R and Sorin R (2015) Memorial: the silence of extinction. The International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts, 10 (4), pp. 13-24.
• Glade-Wright R and Dover B (2015) An unbearable beauty: the call of beauty and the sublime. Studio Research Journal, 3, Article: 5, pp. 52-61.

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Current

• Drawing Through Disaster; Young Children's Artwork Responses to Crises. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Speaking My Mind: Why Comedy Matters (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Imagining Beauty: Towards a New Theory of Feminist aesthetics in Contemporary Digital Photography (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Reflections on the natural beauty of the Daintree Rainforest (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Lack and Superfluity: A creative speculation on the psychosocial and gender exigencies of long-term space travel (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Beauty or Blemish (Masters , Primary Advisor)
• Searching for the Unknown (Masters , Primary Advisor)

Completed

• Wayfaring: place and painting in the tropical far north (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Migrancy: a journey of yearning and a quest for home in the context of contemporary art (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)