Go behind the scenes in my farm studio for Hello Studio by Tanya Schultz (Pip & Pop) and Visit Perth.
To watch click HERE.
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I am so excited to share with you that I will be having my first ever institutional solo exhibition in October at Maitland Regional Art Gallery in New South Wales.
When night falls is a collection of my work over the last 5 years working through the complex relationships between rural Australians, the environment, and ecological responsibility. My work is about intergenerational exchange, parenthood and signifiers of identity based on my experience of life in rural Western Australia living and working on a 7th generation family farm. This exhibition documents these emotions and personal narratives of the land alongside a shared story of succession, living and working off the land, starting a family and the death of a parent. Depicting animals as a recurring motif my works frankly explore an existence shared with other species, everyday dangers, and the inevitably of death.
I am thrilled to have the opportunity to share more of me and bring out some old favourites from storage. Unfortunately due to Covid-19 restrictions I won't be there in person. If you are lucky enough to visit please send me a photo of yourself in the gallery with your favourite work.
When night falls, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, WA.
10 October - 15 November 2020
You can view the catalogue fo works HERE. For enquiries please contact Galerie pompom HERE.
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Anna Louise Richardson, There is no such thing as selfish grief, wooden veneers (Rosewood, Rock Maple, Sheoak, Jarrah burl, hand dyed Silky Oak) and charcoal on ply, 2020, 120cm x 116cm x 1cm.
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I have been trying something completely new working with wood marquetry as a ground for drawing.
Working with veneers was something that mum did exceptionally well in her furniture pieces and she left me her veneers, tools, blades, veneer tape and inspiration. I have many questions for mum in making this work which examines death as a universal event that changes you forever. Depicting a Macaque mother grieving for her child, There is no such thing as selfish grief explores the common experience of grief paralleled by the natural world and is a meditation on mum in her many roles as mother, vet, farmer, artist and furniture maker.
The 2020 Invitation Art Prize, Joondalup, WA
Sunday 11 – Sunday 25 October 2020
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A special edition of my decals are now available. These three raucous Magpies (Koolbardi) are made of removable adhesive fabric and designed from my original drawings of animals and the natural world. Life size, they will add fun and to your home and remind you that you are always watched by birds. Especially at this time of year!
$60 including postage Australia wide
Click HERE to find out more.
For the first time my decals will also be available in person from Maitland Regional Art Gallery shop.
Click HERE to find out more.
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Valerie Sparks, Waratah (from the Sanctuary series), 2019. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Valerie Sparks, Grevillea (from the Sanctuary series), 2019. Image courtesy of the artist.
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I am very pleased to announce that I will be working with Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts as guest curator for their 2020 PICA Salon. Presenting a significant group show, Refracted Reality offers a curated selection of responses to the window as a motif or metaphor, a physical barrier that speaks to broader concerns of duality and exchange. In this exhibition the artists’ works are the medium through which ideas pass and bend, echoing questions of privacy, representational fictions in a post-truth era and a renewed interest in both the intimacy and constrictions of interior space in the wake of mass self-isolation.
Refracted Reality will explore the work of Hoda Afshar, Bruno Booth, Helen Britton, Max Pam, Karrabing Film Collective, Bruce Slatter & Nicole Slatter, Valerie Sparks, Angela Tiatia, James Walker, and Ian Williams whose practices frame the complexities of human nature as a vivid spectacle of truths. The artists make visible the chaos of the urban domestic, digital landscapes and social upheaval, but also balance this with imaginary gardens, introspective interiors and the sublime landscape. Refractive Reality seeks to create a space of shelter, inviting the viewer into intimate environments and private rituals that create a mirage of perspectives which explore alternative realities.
Refracted Reality, PICA, WA
3 November 2020 - 10 January 2021
I am again working with the Collectors Club and John Curtin Gallery as the coordinator for the 2020 John Stringer Prize. Congratulations to finalists Eva Fernandez, Fiona Gavino, Peggy Madij Griffiths, Susan Roux, Curtis Taylor and Mark Tweedie.
John Stringer Prize 2020, John Curtin Gallery, WA
13 November - 13 December 2020
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Many of you know that my mum was an artist and furniture designer: Megan Christie Designs.
I have now complied her life works into a book which you can view HERE.
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