Felicity Wright

Felicity Wright has been passionate about textiles since childhood. Finding herself in Yuendumu, in a remote community art centre in 1986 where women made batik was a wonderful introduction to the world of Aboriginal textile design. She has been actively involved promoting and advocating for Indigenous Australian artists and especially textile artists since that first encounter. As an administrator, researcher, writer, curator, gallerist, speaker and consultant she has had the privilege of working in and with more than 70 remote community art centres in the NT, WA, QLD, SA and Victoria and the peak bodies ANKA, Desart, Ananguku Arts, UMI Arts and IACA. Living and working ‘out bush’ for more than 12 years in four communities included managing Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association, Yuendumu (1986-1988), Bula’bula Arts (2001) and Injalak Arts Aboriginal Corporation (1991-1995 and 2013-2018). 

Felicity also loves enterprise - so combined her love of Indigenous textiles with zest for fair trade in 2013 creating a cross-cultural project that facilitates manufacturing of products made out of hand-printed/woven fabrics. This work is undertaken by disabled and disadvantaged artists through social enterprises. It now trades as Flying Fox Fabrics. 

In 2020 Flick contributed two essays to the forthcoming Fowler Museum/UCLA exhibition catalogue Aboriginal Screen-printed Fabrics from Australia’s Top En’, curated by Joanna Barrkman.

In early 2021 Flick is opening a large arts, crafts and events space in Darwin called Songlines. 

Felicity was creator, researcher and co-writer of a major research project from 1996-99. The findings were published as  The Art & Craft Centre Story Volumes I-III, ATSIC 1999/2000. It involved extensive surveying of 39 remote community art centres and the Reports are benchmark publications in the sector.