Therese Ritchie

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    • about
    • Exhibitions
      • The murdered show 1998
      • Not from here 2000
      • Wish you were here 2003
      • Ship of fools 2004
      • People 2005
      • Beautiful 2005
      • Peace 2006
      • Los Angeles 2007
      • Art in the home 2010
      • Contemporary Australia
      • Groggy 2013
      • Get well soon 2014
      • Blacks in the back 2016
      • Open Cut 2017
      • Love 2017
      • Fallen 2019
      • Burning hearts 2019
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      • We the people 2022
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      • LittlePrick Editions 2012
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      • Fracking 2017
      • Beyond Possible 2019
    • black dog graphics
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Therese Ritchie

Therese RitchieTherese RitchieTherese Ritchie
  • Home
  • about
  • Exhibitions
    • The murdered show 1998
    • Not from here 2000
    • Wish you were here 2003
    • Ship of fools 2004
    • People 2005
    • Beautiful 2005
    • Peace 2006
    • Los Angeles 2007
    • Art in the home 2010
    • Contemporary Australia
    • Groggy 2013
    • Get well soon 2014
    • Blacks in the back 2016
    • Open Cut 2017
    • Love 2017
    • Fallen 2019
    • Burning hearts 2019
    • Lead
    • YOU ARE HERE
    • We the people 2022
  • Portraiture
  • LittlePrick
    • LittlePrick Editions 2012
    • BigPricks Grow 2013
    • Big Book of LittlePricks
    • Fracking 2017
    • Beyond Possible 2019
  • black dog graphics
  • Contact & Sales

You’re not from here are you?  (2000) consists of 16 large inkjet prints on paper examining the different ways people view and use the Northern Territory landscape. At times playful, at times serious, this exhibition moves across the Territory from the desert to the sea.  
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The title of the show was drawn from an episode witnessed by Darwinites Jenny Blockland and Jamie Gallacher on their morning walk at Fannie Bay beach: a white council inspector hassling a group of Aboriginal people on the beach with the immortal words: “You’re not from here are you?”
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“We do it differently up here” is the oft-repeated mantra of the political elite of the Territory as a bulwark against criticism or interference from the “do-gooder Southerners”. But who is really “from here” to do it so differently? And are those “differences” mere imaginings of visiting tourists and others newly arrived, or are they from those who are really “from here”?

Chips Mackinolty and Therese Ritchie

artist • photographer • designer