Selling Yarns

Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st century

 

Speakers

Hilary Furlong: Biography

Coordinator, Ernabella Arts Inc.

Hilary Furlong has been the co-ordinator at Ernabella Arts Inc. since October 1999. Previously she has worked in the theatre as an actress and company administrator; as an advertising copywriter for David Jones' Limited; as a publicist and press officer for The Australian Opera; as a theatrical agent at M & L Casting Consultants representing writers, directors, designers, composers, cinematograhers and choreographers working in theatre, film and television; as an independent film maker producing a feature film and two feature length documentaries; as a Commonwealth public servant in the Senior Executive Service as Director, Special Production Fund, Australian Film Commission; as a freelance film script editor and assessor; as a consultant to the Australia Council to enable the funding and formation of Artback NETS Northern Territory; and as Administrator of the School of Drama at the Victorian College of the Arts. She has also worked as freelance editor on a variety of published works including Tony Haritos's Rope published in the first issue of A & R's vox populi, and Jo Dutton's On the Edge of Red, HarperCollins, 1998.

In 1996 she was administrator and planner of the national Indigenous arts conference Kaltja/Business: Industry or culture? convened by Michiel Dolk, School of Fine Arts, Northern Territory University. The great "modular" mural, The Meeting Place, created by the 87 Indigenous artists invited to the conference, then toured Australia for eighteen months and was acquired by the Northern Territory government. She is now Co-ordinator of the art centre at Ernabella, a remote Indigenous community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far northwest of South Australia.

See also: Abstract of Hilary Furlong's paper:
From Batik to designer rugs for the State Library of South Australia