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Nick Glade-Wright was born in England in 1950 and emigrated to Tasmania, Australia, with his parents and four brothers in 1965. He completed his education with Fine Arts and Education degrees. He taught painting, ceramics and photography for twenty six years in Hobart schools and colleges. He has exhibited his paintings in galleries since 1972 around Australia and the UK. He is represented by Handmark Gallery in Hobart and BMG in Adelaide. He has played in various World Music bands since the early ’80s, the latest being the medieval band Harlequin, playing festivals around Australia. He published his first novel Growing Sideways in 2010. He has travelled extensively; most recently, last year he travelled overland from Sierra Leone to Senegal.
A father of two adult daughters, he now lives with his partner Jacqueline, a creative designer, in Hobart.
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‘For your information, Mister Skeptic, Mungo and the others have finished setting up the studio in town. The grant they got from the Arts Council helped pay for specialised digital recording equipment,’ Melinda said. ‘Then it was only a few hundred dollars to buy the computer software.’
‘I suppose a normal job teaching music or even playing jazz in a pub would be out of the question, you know, so he can contribute to my granddaughter’s wellbeing.’
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