Big Cat
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Big Cat
YEAR. 2017
MEDIUM. charcoal, acrylic and ink on cement fibreboard
DIMENSIONS. 300 x 90cm
EXHIBITION HISTORY.
2017 Finalist, Mid West Art Prize 2017, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, WA
2022 Substratum, Curated by Lewellyn Riley-Haynes, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney, NSW
COLLECTION. Available
This work is an extension of a series exploring rural mythology and storytelling, delving into the global mystery of a large feline cryptid stalking rural areas and conspiracy theories imposed on the natural environment. Big Cat is a continuation of Richardson's research into the existence of the Phantom Cat and emerges from a sense of vulnerability that arises when alone in the bush. Operating in the area between fiction and reality the project originated from her personal experience on the land as the sixth generation to live and work on a 3000 acre beef cattle farm in Western Australia. Richardson's work considers rural mythology, rendering animal archetypes as tropes of national and personal identity, revealing how our relation to place (and nature more broadly) is filtered and shaped through layers of history, storytelling and imagination.
YEAR. 2017
MEDIUM. charcoal, acrylic and ink on cement fibreboard
DIMENSIONS. 300 x 90cm
EXHIBITION HISTORY.
2017 Finalist, Mid West Art Prize 2017, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, WA
2022 Substratum, Curated by Lewellyn Riley-Haynes, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney, NSW
COLLECTION. Available
This work is an extension of a series exploring rural mythology and storytelling, delving into the global mystery of a large feline cryptid stalking rural areas and conspiracy theories imposed on the natural environment. Big Cat is a continuation of Richardson's research into the existence of the Phantom Cat and emerges from a sense of vulnerability that arises when alone in the bush. Operating in the area between fiction and reality the project originated from her personal experience on the land as the sixth generation to live and work on a 3000 acre beef cattle farm in Western Australia. Richardson's work considers rural mythology, rendering animal archetypes as tropes of national and personal identity, revealing how our relation to place (and nature more broadly) is filtered and shaped through layers of history, storytelling and imagination.