Therese Ritchie

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    • 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

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

Our personal and professional lives and collaborations have crossed and re-crossed each other for over 20 years—and this is our fourth exhibition together in the last eight years. As with the two previous shows, the way we have done things is a little odd. Once we have decided what we want out of a show, we don’t get to see each other’s work until the last minute—in some cases until the final hanging. That’s pretty much the case this time around also. It has made for some surprises for both of us.

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The idea of doing a portrait show has been creeping up on us for a few years. Images of people—real and imagined—have been at the heart of much of our work over the last decade and beyond. But these have generally been part of a broader polemic; as part of making statements about where we live—the Northern Territory.

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The need for that kind of polemic has not gone away—there is no way the deeply entrenched attitudes that have so disfigured Territory society for so long will not disappear overnight. The Territory is still at the edge of the frontier—indeed various frontiers—of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, and will always be a testing ground for justice at a national and international level.

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Through these images we celebrate the lives of friends and family. We have not worked with “ordinary people”—in the pejorative sense of the common or mundane—but friends and family that we love and honour, and who we find extraordinary.


Chips Mackinolty and Therese Ritchie  

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artist • photographer • designer