Stephen Naylor

James Cook University | JCU · Chancellory

In an era where the public has greater access to information than ever before, why is it that social capital in many communities is so divided and diminished? Traditionally, people have experienced and generated social capital through direct contact with families and social spaces, including neighbourhoods, communities, clubs and the workplace. The...

In an era where the public has greater access to information than ever before, why is it that social capital in many communities is so divided and diminished? Traditionally, people have experienced and generated social capital through direct contact with families and social spaces, including neighbourhoods, communities, clubs and the workplace. The...

This paper seeks to bridge a gap in Australian art histories by examining the contribution of Northern Queensland to the Australian arts narrative. The story of the visual arts in Australia is often written from the perspective of the southern states, and the story of Queensland art is often written from the perspective of its capital, Brisbane. Th...

Screen-printed textiles from Aboriginal art centers are more than just commercial products. Closely connected with Aboriginal “ways of being,” they carry profound and often ancient stories from the world’s oldest continuous culture and offer consumers a glimpse into a different world. Their creation supports remote livelihoods and culturally affirm...

Screen-printed textiles from remote Australian Aboriginal communities are a widely acclaimed and celebrated form of cultural expression. They bring substantial benefits to artists and their communities. This paper describes research that examines ways in which textiles are understood and valued in the context of their collaborative intercultural de...

This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends within the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Japan and Korea and 16 additional national entities who have had less continuous participation in this global art event. Analysing both the spatial an...

In 1753 the Jesuit priest Marc-Antonie Laugier’s published Essai sur l’architecture (Essays on Architecture) a small philosophical text where he introduced the fundamentals of authentic architecture. Laugier recognised the gap between that which the natural world provides and the additional needs and features we must embrace to produce usable shelt...

This paper looks at the role of art in understanding place as a construct of the imagination, reactions to the real and lived experience. The making of a place by the activities and actions within place constitute over time notions of what things are, what they mean and how meaning is constructed from symbolism and kinaesthesia. Placemaking establi...

In an era where cultural institutions are under increasing scrutiny to provide evidence of their legitimacy, the contemporary art academy must speak with a common voice to define its purpose and relevance. Academics, cultural commentators, art bureaucrats and even Ministers of the Crown speak passionately about the need for arts training to produce...

This research focuses on a sample group of painters who have worked in the North Queensland wet tropics where they have explored tropical imagery within western traditions. Despite some acknowledgement of the Pacific by Smith (1960) and some engagement by established southern artists in fleeting visits to the North; there has been little research i...

This research focuses on a sample group of painters who have worked in the North Queensland wet tropics where they have explored tropical imagery within western traditions. Despite some acknowledgement of the Pacific by Smith (1960) and some engagement by established southern artists in fleeting visits to the North; there has been little research i...

[Extract] The Venice Biennale was instigated on April 19 1893, as part of the municipality of Venice's contribution to the silver anniversary of the marriage of King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy. The city proposed to hold 'a national biennial exhibition of art' which coincided with the celebrations of the newly united Italy. The first Ve...

A crisis has been reached within contemporary Australian art highlighting the inadequate critical engagement with contemporary Indigenous art in Australia—from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers. What passes and is published within the realm of mainstream arts is mostly description rather than analysis, interpretation or contextualisation....

This paper explores the spatial nature of Australia's representation in the Venice Biennale from 1954 - 2003, thereby presenting a view of 'Australian Space from the Outside In'. Examining Australia's representation in Venice, delivers an alternative filter through which we can scrutinise 'Australian Space', from the pastoral Arcadia depicted by Ar...

In this paper I wish to develop an argument that ‘context’ is the crucial feature of any program, this has been evidenced in the success of theme based art theory/history programs and most of the significant curator driven exhibitions (Documenta, Asia Pacific Triennial and the Sydney Biennale). Educators must not assume the validity of their subjec...

This project Building Capacity for Work Integrated Learning (WIL) was funded in part by a small portion of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) grant under the auspices of the James Cook University (JCU) Curriculum Refresh process. JCU academics from the Faculty of Law, Business and the Creative Arts visited key WIL academics and prac...