BIOGRAPHY
Anna Louise Richardson is an artist based on Bindjareb Nyoongar Country 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.
Richardson shares a studio on the family beef cattle farm with her husband Abdul-Rahman Abdullah – an Australian artist whose sculptural practice draws on the narrative capacity of animals to explore the intersection of politics, cultural identity and the natural world. Their three children are the seventh generation to grow up on the property. Richardson's late mother was a veterinarian, artist and furniture designer maker who ran Megan Christie Designs from a converted shearing shed studio on the farm.
A graduate of Curtin University in 2013, Richardson has developed a strong practice as both an artist and curator. Notable projects include Still Watching collaborative survey with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah at Fremantle Arts Centre (2022), When Night Falls solo exhibition at Maitland Regional Art Gallery (2020), and the national tour of her solo exhibition The Good to 11 regional galleries across Australia (2023-2026). In 2023, she was the inaugural winner of the Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery.
Gallery Representation:
Jennings Kerr - Robertson, NSW
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.
Richardson shares a studio on the family beef cattle farm with her husband Abdul-Rahman Abdullah – an Australian artist whose sculptural practice draws on the narrative capacity of animals to explore the intersection of politics, cultural identity and the natural world. Their three children are the seventh generation to grow up on the property. Richardson's late mother was a veterinarian, artist and furniture designer maker who ran Megan Christie Designs from a converted shearing shed studio on the farm.
A graduate of Curtin University in 2013, Richardson has developed a strong practice as both an artist and curator. Notable projects include Still Watching collaborative survey with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah at Fremantle Arts Centre (2022), When Night Falls solo exhibition at Maitland Regional Art Gallery (2020), and the national tour of her solo exhibition The Good to 11 regional galleries across Australia (2023-2026). In 2023, she was the inaugural winner of the Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery.
Gallery Representation:
Jennings Kerr - Robertson, NSW
I pay my respects and acknowledgements to all traditional custodians on whose land I live, work and travel, in Australia and overseas.