Jo Mignone

Teaching Strengths

Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Online Curriculum

Ms Jo Mignone

Lecturer

School of Chemical Engineering

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters only (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Jo Mignone is the Program Director for the Bachelor of Digital Media at UniSA Online, as well as an awarded academic, artist and illustrator in the Bachelor of Design (Illustration and Animation) at the University of South Australia. Jo's main teaching focus is coordinating and teaching illustration, drawing and creative artefact production processes. She has won teaching awards, including a recent fellowship and grants for her teaching of drawing and illustration and regularly exhibits her work internationally. Jo is a research degree supervisor and her research examines expanded illustration practice and pedagogy, publishing both creative artefacts and traditional research outputs.

 

Pulling, BW, Braithwaite, FA, Mignone, J, Butler, DS, Caneiro, J, Lipp, O V & Stanton, TR 2024, 'People with painful knee osteoarthritis hold negative implicit attitudes towards activity', Pain, vol. 165, no. 9, pp. 2024-2034.

Colton, J, Mignone, J & Newport-Peace, D 2022, 'Nodes of tension: negotiating epistemic fluency in interdisciplinary co-teaching', The Australian Educational Researcher, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 511-527.

Seeking vision: an exhibition of international illustration academicsThe 16th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Online; 'Seeking Vision: An exhibition of International Academics', at 'Back to Life: Seeking Vision in Purpose in Principles and Practices', The 16th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices. New South Wales, Australia 19-21 January 2022

2019 - 2021 International Finalist, Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award.

2018 International Finalist, Mumedi Mexican Museum of Design  poster exhibition. Her work was selected from over 30,000 participants to be an international finalist, exploring communication values in poster design. 

 

Year Citation
2025 Zeivots, S., Casey, A., Winchester, T., Webster, J., Mignone, J., Godwin, R., & Hayes, S. (2025). Reshaping higher education designs and futures: postdigital co-design with generative artificial intelligence. Postdigital Science and Education, online(4), 1334-1374.
DOI Scopus4
2024 Pulling, B. W., Braithwaite, F. A., Mignone, J., Butler, D. S., Caneiro, J. P., Lipp, O. V., & Stanton, T. R. (2024). People with painful knee osteoarthritis hold negative implicit attitudes towards activity. Pain, 165(9), 2024-2034.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC2
2022 Colton, J., Mignone, J., & Newport Peace, D. (2022). Nodes of tension: negotiating epistemic fluency in interdisciplinary co-teaching. Australian Educational Researcher, 49(3), 511-527.
DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2019 Mignone, J., & Blaiklock, D. (2019). Visual notation: an image making approach for communication in illustration education. The International Journal of the Image, 10(2), 1-9.
DOI
2005 Mignone, J. (2005). Handmade: the revitalisation of illustration. Visual: Design: Scholarship Research Journal of the Australian Graphic Design Association.

Year Citation
2022 Authors: Mignone J, Blaiklock D. Title: Converging Dialogues, a study in collaborative Illustration. Description: Link to a related website: https://www.illustrationacademics.com/2022, URL of other creative work. Extent: N/A.
2021 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Green comfort. Description: First Showing. Extent: 1 painting, Dimensions: 30 x 40 cm.
2021 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Wish you were here. Description: First Showing. Extent: 1 painting, Dimensions: 30 x 50 cm.
2020 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Resilience. Description: First Showing. Extent: 1 painting, Dimensions: 61cm W x 61cm H.
2019 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Anonymous. Description: First Showing. Extent: 1 painting, Dimensions: 45cm W x 45cm H.
2019 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Lilies for remembrance. Description: First Showing. Extent: 1 painting, Dimensions: 61.5 W x 91.5 H.
2018 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Positive ageing. Description: First Showing. Extent: Poster.
2017 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Home. Description: First Showing. Extent: Portrait.
2016 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Anti-selfie. Description: First Showing. Extent: Charcoal on canvas.
2015 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Enjoy the ride. Description: First Showing. Extent: 1 poster.
2015 Authors: Mignone J. Title: In transition. Description: First Showing. Extent: 1 portrait.
DOI Scopus18 WoS18 Europe PMC6
2014 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Encountering identity. Extent: digital collage, Dimensions: 594mm x 841mm.
2014 Authors: Mignone J. Title: Consume. Extent: mixed media.

Global Arts and Health Alliance $36 000 grant, ‘Supporting Neurodiverse Comics Creators’ research team member

Courses I teach

  • GRAP1007 Introductin to  Illustration and Animation
  • GRAP3023 Advanced Life Drawing
  • GRAP1008 Illustration  Studio 1 

 

Programs I'm associated with

  • DBIA - Bachelor of Design (Illustration and Animation)

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