Anna Louise Richardson: ‘Troublesome Stranger’

Jennings Kerr is pleased to present our second solo exhibition with Anna Louise Richardson. ‘Troublesome Stranger’ consists of a new series of realist charcoal drawings on cement fibreboard.

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

Anna Louise Richardson’s drawing-based practice is grounded in personal experience and rural life. Growing up on a beef cattle farm, where she continues to live with her family, Richardson’s work explores themes of parenthood, intergenerational relationships, mortality, and human-animal connection. Her drawings use animals, domestic objects, and agricultural references, blending realism with stylised elements, exaggerated scale, flattened perspectives, and cut-out shapes to heighten the emotional impact of familiar imagery.

As a non-Indigenous Australian living on a multigenerational farm, Richardson’s practice is shaped by an awareness of the legacies and privileges of living and working on unceded Aboriginal land. Her work reflects on how identity is formed through place, family, and memory, engaging with the complexities of rural life. At the heart of Richardson’s practice is intimate, regionally grounded storytelling and a commitment to radical optimism—finding beauty and connection in the everyday.

A graduate of Curtin University (2013), Richardson has developed a strong practice as both an artist and curator. Notable projects include When Night Falls (2020) at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, and Museums & Galleries of NSW national tour of The Good (2023–2026), a major solo exhibition exploring concepts of goodness through the lens of motherhood and rural life, co-commissioned by Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and The Condensery. In 2023, she was the inaugural winner of the Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery.