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The Good

The Good was a major solo exhibition by artist Anna Louise Richardson whose practice is centred around rural life, embedded in the experience and drama of everyday reality.

Anna Louise Richardson, Good egg, 2023, charcoal on cement fibreboard, 50 x 37 cm. Photo: Bo Wong

This exhibition ran from 30 November 2023 to 17 February 2024

The Good is a major new solo exhibition by artist Anna Louise Richardson whose practice is centred around rural life, embedded in the experience and drama of everyday reality.

Working primarily in charcoal and graphite, Richardson’s work explores ideas of intergenerational exchange, parenthood and identity based on her experiences of living and working on a multi-generation beef cattle farm in rural Australia

Anna Louise Richardson
b.1992 Boorloo I Perth, lives and works Mundijong, WA

Anna Louise Richardson is an Australian artist living and working on Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodja in the Peel Region. Richardson’s practice centres around drawing, rendering realistic scenes that speak strongly to her experience of rural life as a member of a multigenerational farming family.

Her works explore parenthood, familial relationship, intergenerational exchange, settler identity, relationship to place as well as regionally specific mythologies

Anna Louise Richardson in her studio, 2023. Photo: Bo Wong

Installation view The Good, Anna Louise Richardson’s studio, 2023. Photo: Bo Wong

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Acknowledgement of Country

Cumberland Council acknowledges the Darug Nation and People as Traditional Custodians of the land on which the Cumberland Local Government Area (LGA) is situated and pays respect to Aboriginal Elders both past, present and future. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the First Peoples of Australia. Cumberland Council also acknowledges other Aboriginal, and Torres Strait Islander Peoples living in the Cumberland LGA and reaffirms that we will work closely with all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to advance reconciliation within the area.

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