Prof Stephen Naylor ~ Chair of Academic Board

PROFESSOR STEPHEN NAYLOR

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2001 - 2006: Monash University,

Master of Arts (Fine Art) 1994 - 1996: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Education (Art/Craft) 1979 - 1982: Melbourne State College, Majors: 3D and Art Theory.

Professor Stephen Naylor has been an active participant in education, learning & teaching and the creative arts for more than 40 years. He has taught in high schools, TAFE and for the last 25 years worked in the University sector, receiving a National Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in Higher Education in 2007. He has assumed roles of leadership in each sector, driving curriculum, quality assurance, policy development, staff management, professional development, assessment strategies and research agendas. Currently he is Chair of the Academic Board of James Cook University (JCU) and serves on a number of Boardsincluding the Advisory Board for TEQSA Panel of Experts Australia.As a Board member he provides expertise on governance, contemporary Art in a global context and a strong understanding of both community art and art training in tertiary education.

His creative arts background drove his professional practice for more than 20 years where he worked in the area of furniture design, alternative building mediums, painting and contemporary sculpture. Since that time he has focused on research into Australian contemporary creative arts and international exhibition platforms. This research culminated in his Ph.D. project, Australian Contemporary Arts from the Outside in - A spatial analysis of Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale 1954-2003 and has seen him as an active arts reviewer for a variety of Australian journals. His Routledge monograph entitled The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World, was published in July 2020. More recently his research has sought to gain an understanding of a sense of place within the tropical region, especially in the area of spatial design and architecture for the Tropics. He has received funding grants from the Queensland government to stage research into architecture in North Queensland which resulted in major exhibition held at Pinnacles Gallery (Townsville) in 2009, culminating in a symposium probing the issues of appropriate domestic housing design in North Queensland.

In parallel to his work in the creative arts he has maintained a strong link with pedagogy in higher education. He has presented numerous papers at conferences reviewing curriculum design and the use of the study tour as an alternative pedagogy. With four years’ experience in Asia, where he was the Dean for JCU’s Singapore campus, he had a major role in providing commentary and advice at numerous forums throughout the region on assessment, approaches  in student centric learning & teaching, quality assurance and academic governance in higher education. Whilst undertaking roles in senior management he supervisors HDR candidates and is a PhD examiner for post graduate candidates in the broad areas of the creative arts at the intersection between business and teaching & learning.

Research Disciplines

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and (4501)
• Urban and regional planning (3304)
• Art history, theory and criticism (3601)

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Journal Articles

• Ruben B, Naylor S and McDonald M (2020) Value and cultural voice in Australian Aboriginal textiles. Textile: Cloth and Culture, 18 (4), pp. 451-464, DOI:10.1080/14759756.2020.1767494.
• Naylor S (2015) The Art Academy: a gateway to a broader concept of creativity and innovation. Knowledge Cultures, 3 (3), pp. 159-174.
• Meyer A and Naylor S (2013) The paradise problem: painted experience. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 12 (2), pp. 30-40.
• Naylor S (2010) The ethos of ‘the Queenslander’: a Journey into the art of building in North Queensland. etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 9, pp. 1-10.

Books

• Naylor S (2020) The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the global art world. Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions. Routledge, New York, USA

Book Chapters

• Naylor S and Harding S (2020) Where is the trust? For the good of the people. In: Cities of Opportunities: Connecting Culture and Innovation. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 7-22
• Naylor S (2015) Artist travel: twilight and the amputee. In: Back to the Start. Goff Books, New York, NY, USA, pp. 94-121
• Naylor S (2010) Australian space from the outside in: Australia’s representation at the Venice Biennale 1954–2005 . In: Halfway Houses: the poetics of Australian spaces. UWA Press, Crawley, WA, Australia, pp. 320-332
• Gough J and Naylor S (2009) Circuit breaking? Indigenous Australian art and critical discourse. In: Crossing Cultures: conflict, migration and convergence: the proceedings of the 32nd international congress of the history of art. Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 820-825

Conference Papers

• Naylor S and Hassan S (2012) James Cook University's strategy to engage with the region through the development of a Singapore campus: re-imaging the tropics. Proceedings of Australian International Education Conference. In: 2012 Australian International Education Conference, 2-5 October 2012, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
• Naylor S (2011) Presenting international art study tours as an effective model for authentic learning. Proceedings of ACUADS 2011 Annual Conference: creativity: brain, mind, body. 21-23 September 2011, Canberra, ACT, Australia
• Naylor S, Bhati A and Kidd P (2010) Multiple campus operation - challenges and opportunities in implementing Work Integrated Learning (WIL). Work Integrated Learning – Responding to Challenges: Proceedings of the 2010 ACEN National Conference. In: ACEN 2010 Australian Collaborative Education Network Conference, 29 September-1 October 2010, Perth, WA, Australia

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 40+ research outputs authored by Prof Stephen Naylor from 2002 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Drawing the threads together: Aboriginal screen-printed textiles (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Agriculture in Australian fiction: Developing a new literary experience of the sugar industry in the wet tropics of far north Queensland (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Millennial Employees, a key Cornerstone to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in small and medium Enterprises (SMEs): Evolving a Unique Social Responsibility Identity! A Regional Comparison of four Countries: Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Finding Judith: Fiction, Family History and Unravelling the Past (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• In Defence of the North - The Narrative of Place and the Art of Becoming. North Queensland 1971-1981 (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Reflections on the natural beauty of the Daintree Rainforest (PhD , Advisor Mentor)

Completed

• The butterfly pin: the phenomenon of object-based collecting in Australian contemporary artistic practice (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Migrancy: a journey of yearning and a quest for home in the context of contemporary art (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Arts practice and process: a basis for a pedagogical approach to art education focused on issues of social relevance (2020, Masters , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Urban construct: visualising space in Townsville’s built environment (2021, Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Shadows in the cane. Reconstructing history through fiction to responsibly reimagine and make accessible the 1930s history of Cassowary Coast migrant sugar workers. (2021, PhD , Advisor Mentor)

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• Meyer, A. (2015) Painting in the Tropics, artist case study surveys. James Cook University