Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
Kirsty Robertson. “Chained to the Gallery: 1970s Protest, Nationalism, and Anti-Racism at the Art Gallery of Ontario.” Canadian Historical Review 105.4, 2024, pp. 553-80.
Kirsty Robertson and Heather Davis. “Plastic Dislocations: Questions of Labour and Environment in Plastic Heart.” Sculpture Journal 33.4, 2024, pp. 561-82.
Kirsty Robertson and Eugenia Kisin. “Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum.” Journal of Curatorial Studies 12.2 (October), 2023, pp. 232-256.
Kirsty Robertson, Heather Davis, Kelly Wood, Tegan Moore, Kelly Jazvac/Synthetic Collective. “Plastic Heart, Surface All the Way Through.” Open Library of the Humanities Journal, Art/Switch editorial team, 9.2.
Kirsty Robertson and Eugenia Kisin. “Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum.” Journal of Curatorial Studies 12.2 (October 2023), 232-256.
Kirsty Robertson. “The Disappearance of Arthur Nestor: Parafiction, Cryptozoology, Curation.” Museum and Society 18.2.
Patricia Corcoran, Johanna de Haan Ward, Ian Arturo, Sara Belontz, Tegan Moore, Carolyn Hill-Svehla, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood, Kelly Jazvac. “A Comprehensive Investigation of Industrial Plastic Pellets on Beaches across the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Factors Governing their Distribution.” Science of the Total Environment.
Sara Belontz, Patricia Corcoran, Heather Davis, Kathleen Hill, Kelly Jazvac, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood (the Synthetic Collective). “Embracing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Plastics Pollution Awareness and Action.” Ambio (November 2018), currently online.
Helen Gregory and Kirsty Robertson. “No Small Matter? Micromuseums as Critical Institutions,” RACAR (special issue: Critical Curating) 43.2 (2018), pp. 89-101.
Lianne McTavish with Susan Ashley, Heather Igloliorte, Kirsty Robertson, and Andrea Terry. “Critical Museum Theory/Museum Studies in Canada: A Dialogue,” Acadiensis 46.2 (2017), pp. 223-41.
Kirsty Robertson with Sarah Smith, Stephanie Anderson, Elizabeth Diggon and Ahlia Moussa. “More a Diplomatic than an Aesthetic Event: Canada, Brazil and Cultural Exchange,” Journal of Canadian Studies 47 (January 2014): 1-29.
“Threads of Hope: The Living Healing Quilt Project.” English Studies in Canada (Aboriginal Redress and Repatriation) 35.1 (March 2010), pp. 85-108.
Reprints
“Plastiglomerado,” translated by Marén García, Revista UNAM, vol 921, June 2025.
Synthetic Collective. “Embracing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Plastics Pollution Awareness and Action.” In The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 04: SHORING, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, 2019.
“Embroidery Pirates and Fashion Victims: Textiles, Craft and Copyright.” Textile Reader, Jessica Hemmings, ed. London: Berg Publishers, forthcoming, 2013.
“Capitalist Cocktails and Moscow Mules: The Art World and Alter-Globalization Protest.” Situating Global Resistance Between Discipline and Dissent, Lara Coleman and Karen Tucker, eds. New York and London: Routledge, 2012 [originally published 2011].
Chapters in Books
“Secret Stash: Textiles, Hoarding, Collecting, Accumulation and Craft.” In Craft on Demand. Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch, eds. Bloomsbury Press, 2020.
“Textiles.” In Fueling Culture: Politics, History, Energy. Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger, eds. Fordham University Press, 2016, pp. 353-56.
“Oil Futures/Petrotextiles” In Petrocultures. Sheena Wilson and Imre Szeman, eds. McGill-Queen’s University Press. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, pp. 242-63.
“Quilts for the Twenty-First Century: Activism in the Expanded Field of Quilting” In Handbook of Textiles, eds. Janis Jefferies, Hazel Clark and Diana Wood Conroy. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2015, pp. 197-210.
“Titanium Motherships of the New Economy: Museums, Neoliberalism and Resistance.” In Imagining Resistance, Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011, pp. 197-214.
“Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a ‘Craftivist’ History.” In Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture and Contemporary Art. Maria Elena Buszek, ed. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010, pp. 184-203.
Feature Articles, Reviews, etc.
Katie Lawson and Kirsty Robertson. Katie Lawson and Kirsty Robertson. “Littoral Entanglements: The Fractured Lives of Plastic Artworks,” esse arts and opinions, 113, 2025, pp. 10-17/
Kirsty Robertson. “Caroline Monnet: Uneasy Objects,” MOMUS (April 2024).
Kirsty Robertson. “Les climats intérieurs et extérieurs: faire face à l’urgence climatique dans les musées,” Vie des Arts 268 (Automne 2022), pp. 50-53.
“In Conjunction with Light: The Plastics exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 1967.” Programming for Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, 2021.
“The Afterlife of Clothing.” Guest essay for the exhibition Fast Fashion/Slow Art. Bibiana Osler and Phyllis Rosenzweig, eds. Washington DC: Corcoran Gallery.
“The History of Contemporary Survival: Tributes and Tributaries at the AGO.” In Topia 37 (Spring 2017).
“Plastiglomerate.” Feature Article. E-flux journal 78 (December 2016).
“Review of Refusal of Images (A Space Gallery).” In C Magazine 114 (Summer 2012), pp. 44-45.
“Dancing Mounties, Flamingo Pink Jackets, Culture and Elitism,” Fuse Magazine 34.2 (March 2011), pp. 25-31.
“Crude Culture: Canada and Creative Industries.” Feature Article. Fuse Magazine 30.5 (Spring 2008), pp. 12-21.
Public Writing
With Synthetic Collective. “An Introduction to the Synthetic Collective.” Gallery Climate Coalition Blog, 2024.
Patricia Corcoran, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Jazvac, Sara Belontz. “A ripple effect caused by a science-arts-cultural collaboration: Plastic pollution in the Great Lakes watershed.” IAGLR: Lakes Letter, Fall 2024.
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