Author Bio

With over a decade of experience as an awarded multi-disciplinary artist, writer and arts worker, Jack Wilkie-Jans brings a wealth of arts, events and project management knowledge to his private consultancy practice: JWJ Consultancy (launched in 2023). Boasting a varied and stellar work history in political advisory services, economic development (including tourism) advocacy and land management across Cape York Peninsula—as well as research, critique, policy development, and copywriting—Jack Wilkie-Jans specialises in all facets of the contemporary Indigenous art sector and Aboriginal affairs. Jack is a qualified Politologist, with a Bachelor of Arts from James Cook University, majoring in Political Science & Internal Affairs; he is also an Alumni of the National Gallery of Australia's Dhiraamalang: Wesfarmers First Nations Arts Leadership Program and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society. Jack is a Waanyi, Teppathiggi and Tjungundji man from the Gulf of Carpentaria and Mapoon of Cape York Peninsula, with English, Vanuatuan and Danish heritage.