Wright is a prolific multidisciplinary artist with a diverse background in Painting and Drawing, Surface Pattern Design and Floral Artistry. Wright has formal training in in the Fine Arts from VCA and a BA (Honours) in Textile Design from RMIT.

Following her academic studies, Amy worked in corporate design studios within the Automotive Industry ( GM Holden, Melbourne and Detroit). She has lectured at RMIT University across textiles, painting and drawing and was Lead Lecturer at design school, ISCD in Melbourne. She has worked as a freelance designer in the textile design industry, as well as creating her own homewares textile brand and running a retail studio (A Shop called Milton) in Prahran Vic. Prior to becoming a mother in 2017, Amy ran and was the principle designer at ‘Wunderplant,’ a floral design business, specialising in weddings and events.

While she has explored various avenues in her creative career, her background is suggestive of her lust for exploration and experimentation, a drive for learning and a personal push for creative growth. Having painted for several decades, it has been the past 8 years that she has been fully immersed in the studio as a full time Artist.

Wright has a preoccupation with capturing abandon landscapes; the discarded, ignored and untamed. Each canvas is it’s own Wunderkammer, holding a world that morphs reality with imagination and myth; plants are depicted wildly and landscapes are tiered and towering with often obscured horizon lines.

Wright works in mixed media - predominately oil, acrylic and prismacolour pencil - and her painting methodology is reminiscent to that of collage, where the whole is made up of cropped fragments, where she playfully toys with the idea of hiding and revealing. Pattern, shape, texture and colour are core to her practice and are used to create a sensory narrative of the landscape.

Amy lives with her partner Steve and their 5 year old daughter Maeve in a small regional township on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria. Her days are filled with creative play, gardening, beach visits and painting. She works from her garden studio.

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