Glenda Orr’s art primarily focuses on critically engaging with issues and concepts of biological diversity, human ecology and natural ecosystems, particularly forests and woodlands. Her love of the ‘bush’ stems from her childhood spent playing in the dry sclerophyll forests on the steep gorge banks of the Georges River in southern Sydney. This love of the natural world and curiosity as to how it worked, led to her careers as a research biologist and then, natural resource policy analyst. Glenda also spent much of her spare time in the later 1980s and 90s volunteering as an environmental activist, especially working with the Forest Campaign Group of the Australian Conservation Foundation on the South- East Forest campaign in NSW.
Throughout her life, Glenda has loved drawing, printmaking, fabricated sculpture and photography, taking part-time classes where possible. Finally in 2002, when she moved from Sydney to Brisbane, she was able to commit full time to being a practising artist. While completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (First Class) degree, Glenda became a founding member of Impress Printmakers Studio & Gallery and its exhibitions coordinator. Since graduating, she has tutored in Art Theory at Queensland College of Art, represented Queensland on the Print Council of Australia and participated in many exhibitions, most recently, touring exhibitions raising the awareness of the threatened Bimblebox Nature Refuge in central Queensland.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Image above: Rosalind Atkins Considering the tree 2020 engraving edition 8 80 x 60 cm Congratulations to Rosalind Atkins, Winsome Jobling …
Image above: Glenda Orr Measured Distancing O&X Games digital prints on acid free paper, folded and glued format, tape measure …
Congratulations to Glenda Orr who has been selected as a finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award. With …
Image: Pam Tippett Together – Amanda Bell AM 2021 oil on linen on panel 70 x 70 cm Australian Galleries …
Image: Stephanie Monteith Gunyah Beach Summer 2021 oil on panel 33 x 93cm To celebrate the re-opening of Hazelhurst Art …
Image: Danielle Creenaune Cascade Falls watercolour on Saunders Waterford 56 x 76 cm Congratulations to Danielle Creenaune who has been …
Image above: Rodney Pople Self portrait after Courbet (2) Congratulations to Graeme Drendel, Martin King, Lewis Miller, Paul S. Miller …
Image: Sarah Tomasetti From Balpatta IV 2021 oil and incision on fresco plaster with muslin, mounted on stretched canvas 145 …
David Frazer’s latest artist book, Love Letter, has recently been featured in the Sydney Morning Herald in an article written …
Image: Jennifer Keeler-Milne Spring Wattle I 2021 oil on linen 92 x 198 cm Congratulations to Jennifer Keeler-Milne who has …
Image above: Chris Ingham Urban mission I 2019 lithograph edition 3 76 x 56 cm Printmaker and sculptor, Chris Ingham …
Image above: Sue Anderson Christmas Island Pipistrelle coloured pencil on paper 30.5 x 22 cm ‘Extinct’ is a recently published book by …
Image: Angus Fisher Rosellas and Banksias 2021 ink pen and watercolour on paper 76 x 56 cm Angus Fisher has …
