Brush Tail
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Brush Tail
YEAR. 2016
MEDIUM. conte, charcoal and glow in the dark acrylic on cement fibreboard
DIMENSIONS. 70 x 100cm
EXHIBITION HISTORY.
2017 On the hunt, Galerie pompom, Sydney, NSW
COLLECTION. The Wesfarmers Collection
Brush Tail is part of a body of work exploring rural mythology and storytelling and is a continuation of her research into the existence of the Phantom Cat and emerges from a sense of vulnerability that arises when alone in the bush. Richardson’s drawings delve into the global mystery of a large feline cryptid stalking rural areas and conspiracy theories imposed on the natural environment.
Operating in the area between fiction and reality this body of work originates from Richardson’s personal experience on the land as the sixth generation to live and work on a 3000 acre beef cattle farm in Western Australia. Her 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. 2016
MEDIUM. conte, charcoal and glow in the dark acrylic on cement fibreboard
DIMENSIONS. 70 x 100cm
EXHIBITION HISTORY.
2017 On the hunt, Galerie pompom, Sydney, NSW
COLLECTION. The Wesfarmers Collection
Brush Tail is part of a body of work exploring rural mythology and storytelling and is a continuation of her research into the existence of the Phantom Cat and emerges from a sense of vulnerability that arises when alone in the bush. Richardson’s drawings delve into the global mystery of a large feline cryptid stalking rural areas and conspiracy theories imposed on the natural environment.
Operating in the area between fiction and reality this body of work originates from Richardson’s personal experience on the land as the sixth generation to live and work on a 3000 acre beef cattle farm in Western Australia. Her 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.