Fiona Wright

I am a practicing artist previously based in Gresford, rural NSW,
Australia, in 2008 re-located to Pushkar, India.
I exhibit both nationally and internationally, working in textiles most of my life and I spent a long stint as a Steiner/Waldorf teacher

A trip to India in 2003 changed my life…through a “Little Meeting” many things happened…..I met the man who is now my husband, we started a small textiles focused travel company ‘Creative Arts Safaris’ …I travelled to teach all over the world and visit India for many years until we landed together in a village outside Pushkar in rural India.

A long story but my studio grew to become our workshop ‘The Stitching Project’ - my husband got roped in and yes he has found he enjoys the creative side of our work and is now a keen block printer. We run a social enterprise- a business with clear social goals as well as profit, employing as many hands as we can stitching, block printing utilising handloom fabrics etc.

India is where we call home. 

Little Meetings

“Little Meetings” I did a series of these Meetings, technique-wise it was when I started to experiment with layers…my pieces are built of with a layer of wool and a layer of silk over the top, when these are felted together you can often see 2 things happening visually depending on what you focus on in the picture or the angle you view from. The technique represented what I was experiencing, wanting to share. There is the landscape evoked by the horizontal line and overlaying that the God’s eye view or bigger picture. This laid the foundation for a series about place “Soulscapes”

“Little Meetings” I had been to India, met Praveen, I was starting to travel a lot to teach, I was making connections around the globe really and was contemplating the people you meet and the connections you make….some bring bursts of light into your life…and as you go on you start to realize “here is there in another location” which was my Masters exhibition that came together around the same time

Temple Memories

“Temple Memories” India made a big impact on my life personally and creatively…this was just something I had to get off my chest and it was like a talisman. I often had it in my suitcase when I travelled to teach, I would never sell it: my general attitude is that a piece is an experience of the moment and I don’t need to hold on to it. This one always felt like home when I looked at it and a sign where that would one day be…..the rose petal strewn across the surface held such wishes.