Meet the Team

Amy Allerton

Founder + Director

Amy is the founder and Managing Director of Indigico Creative, a graphic designer, photographer, contemporary Aboriginal artist, corporate decoloniser and public speaker. 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 in 2014, establishing herself as a driven and savvy entrepreneur which led to the launch of Indigico Creative in February 2020. Since then, Indigico has had the privilege of working with clients all over Australia, setting a benchmark for how regional businesses can achieve commercial success while keeping culture, community and Country at the centre.

Indigico Creative is embedded with Amy’s deep cultural connection and heritage, infusing Indigico’s work with a distinct authenticity that bridges gaps and builds meaningful, creative connections across businesses and communities. As a prominent, accomplished and award winning business leader, Amy uses her exceptional skills in photography, graphic design, Aboriginal art and storytelling to amplify First Nations voices, expand First Nations representation and enhance cultural revitalisation for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Amy is an engaging Speaker and Presenter who is passionate about taking organisations on authentic and personal journeys through relational engagement and collaboration. Through a cultural lens, Amy guides, educates and supports businesses to discover the purpose, perspective and power of storytelling and harness its ability to unite, inspire and transform.

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

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

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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