Anna Louise Richardson
b. 1992, Perth, Australia
Lives and works on Bindjareb Nyoongar Boodja outside Perth, Australia

Anna Louise Richardson is an artist based on Bindjareb Nyoongar Boodja in the Peel Region of Western Australia. Her practice focuses on drawing, exploring themes of parenthood, family relationships, intergenerational exchange, settler identity, and connection to place. Working primarily in charcoal and graphite on cement fibreboard, Richardson combines realism with flattened perspectives, cut-out shapes, and manipulated scale to amplify the subject matter.

Her work reflects her experience growing up on a multigenerational farming family and often draws from autobiographical narratives to explore themes of life, death, and the human-animal connection. Offering an intimate, grounded perspective on rural life, her drawings use animals, objects, and the land as metaphors for deeper emotional and existential themes.

A graduate of Curtin University in 2013, Richardson has developed a strong practice as both an artist and curator. Current projects include the 2024 TILT commission with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah at Goolugatup Heathcote, WA, and a national tour of her solo exhibition The Good, co-commissioned by Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and The Condensery, touring regional galleries across Australia until 2026. Recent exhibitions include When Night Falls at Maitland Regional Art Gallery (2020) and Still Watching, a collaborative survey with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah at Fremantle Arts Centre (2022). In 2023, she was the inaugural winner of the Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery and was a finalist in the 2020 Ramsay Art Prize.

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