Meet the Team

Amy Allerton

Founder + Director

Amy is the founder and Managing Director of Indigico Creative, a graphic designer, photographer, contemporary Aboriginal artist, cultural storyteller and engagement consultant. Amy is a Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung woman whose family’s traditional land is located in the Clarence Valley, NSW, in a rural area called Cangai. Amy has kinship ties to the Gomeroi nation, with her identity being strongly grounded in Gomeroi culture, history, dreaming, art and language having been born and raised in Tamworth, NSW.

Amy first started her business journey as a graphic designer in 2014 and has since been collaborating with businesses and partnering with communities Australia-wide to creatively communicate the stories that bring us together. After reconnecting with her artistic roots, Amy merged her skills in digital communication design with her art expression to deliver a modern approach to Aboriginal storytelling in the form of digital art. Amy’s artworks are an extension from her journey of exploring her own cultural identity, utilising her unique ability to speak in colour and imagery to create visual representations of the journeys and values of organisations and communities.

Amy is passionate about knowledge sharing through relational engagement and collaboration, taking organisations on authentic and personal journeys to discover the purpose, perspective and power of storytelling. Through a cultural lens, Amy guides and supports businesses to harness the power of storytelling to achieve far reaching, positive impacts on economic, social, political, legal and environmental outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous businesses, communities and individuals alike.

  • Committee Member and Secretary, Arts North West Aboriginal Arts Steering Committee

  • Winner, 2023 Outstanding Young Business Leader, Tamworth Quality Business Awards

Explore Amy’s work:

Rick Allerton

Senior Videographer

Rick is the other half of our founder and Director, Amy, and is our Senior Videographer and Videography Project Manager. Rick was born and raised in Greater Western Sydney but has spent the last 30 years living in Tamworth, NSW, which pretty much makes him an official Tamworth local!

Rick is an accomplished videographer and editor with over 10 years experience working with government, non-profits, large corporations and SME’s to tell their stories. Rick has a genuine love of connecting with people and harnesses his natural skill of making everyone he meets feel comfortable, seen and valued in everything he does. He specialises in helping organisations share their brand story, filming workshops or large events and showcasing community programs and local government projects.

He has developed a large arsenal of equipment and skills over the years, including:

  • Video Editing with Premiere Pro and Davinci Resolve

  • Drone operation with the DJI Mavic 2 Pro

  • Filming with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

  • Filming with the Panasonic S5 iiX

  • Broadcast filming with the Panasonic AG-CX10

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Phil Duncan

Patron of Indigico Creative

Professor (HonD) Leslie (Phil) Duncan is from Moree New South Wales and is a member of the Gomeroi Nation, with his homelands located in Moree and Terry Hie Hie. Phil has over 40 years’ experience working with Aboriginal people and government to improve the lives of Aboriginal people through recognition of our rich cultural history, the return of our lands, the improvement of our living conditions and education of our next generation through both his employment and active volunteer community work. Phil provides high level policy and strategic advice and leadership to key Indigenous Representative Organisations, Universities, State and Federal government agencies as well as key external stakeholder groups. His strategic advice, leadership and engagement is around issues of culture and heritage significance, community engagement in on-ground projects, as well as the design, delivery and implementation of programs in partnership with government. Phil has made significant contributions in a variety of domains from education and organisational reconciliation action through to areas of focus such as natural resource management, freshwater river management, forestry, native fish, water rights and allocations.

Phil is extremely passionate about promoting greater partnerships and collaborations using two way knowledge exchanges and enhancing the voices of Traditional Owners in land and water management via the integration of Cultural Science into the Western Scientific frameworks and models.

Industry affiliations:

  • Murray Darling Basin Authority – Basin Community Committee – First Indigenous Chair

  • NSW Natural Resource Access Regulator - Board Member – First Indigenous Board Member

  • Reconciliation Australia – Board Member

  • Australian Freshwater Science Society – National Indigenous Executive

  • Watertrust Australia Ltd – Influencing Advisory Committee – Indigenous Member

  • Griffith University – Award of Doctor of the University

  • Acting CEO Economic Participation Indigenous Communities, Bid

  • University of Canberra Galambany Professorial Fellow, Centre of Applied Water Science