Background
Wright was born on 9 November 1979, and is from the New South Wales town of Cooranbong. She was born with a congenital limb deficiency.
Wright was born on 9 November 1979, and is from the New South Wales town of Cooranbong. She was born with a congenital limb deficiency.
She also has a Master of Philosophy in fine arts (photography). She attended the opening of the Wesley Mission"s Mangrove Mountain Retreat swimming pool.
Her right arm is missing at the elbow, her right leg is "severely shortened" requiring the use of a prosthesis and she is lacking two fingers and the forearm bone of her left hand. Wright"s swimming career at the highest level lasted for seven years. Her classification during this time was S6.
She swam for the Gosford Amateur Swimming Club. and was a New South Wales Institute of Sport swimmer.
In January 2000, she attended the Australia Day Celebrations in Forest Park as a Paralympic Ambassador. Wright first attended the University of Newcastle in 2003 at her mother"s urging to explore her love of art in that setting.
She enrolled in the university"s Open Foundation program, which is intended for students over twenty years old who are entering university for the first time, before transitioning to Central Coast campus to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She studied abroad at University of Leeds in her third year at the university.
In 2008, she attended the University of Newcastle, where she completed a Master of Philosophy in Fine Art (Photography).
She later attended the University of Leeds as a Doctorate of Philosophy student doing research in the fine arts At the Canadian Association for Women's Public History Conference, "Women's Bodies in a Public History Context" in Ottawa, Canada, she presented a paper titled "self (un)contained: revealing the authentic experience of disability within a feminist context’. She had a paper published in the University of Edinburgh’s Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts titled "My Prosthetic and I: identity representation in bodily extension." Currently Wright is working with the overseas disability charity Christian Blind Mission as their Sports Ambassador.
