Therese Ritchie facts for kids
Therese Ritchie is an Australian artist, writer, and graphic designer. She was born in 1961 and lives in Darwin. She is well-known for her art that often focuses on issues important to Aboriginal Australians. She also helped start a publishing company called Green Ant Research Arts and Publishing in 1990.
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Early Life and Learning
Therese Ritchie was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1961. In 1980, she moved to the Northern Territory. She studied at the Northern Territory University, which is now Charles Darwin University (CDU). She earned a Diploma of Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1985. Later, in 2001, Ritchie studied animation in Melbourne. She then completed her Masters in Visual Arts from CDU in 2005.
Career Highlights
In 1990, Therese Ritchie co-founded Green Ant Research Arts and Publishing. She started this company with Chips Mackinolty and Peter Cook. Later, she also started her own business. It was a graphic design company called Black Dog Graphics.
Important Art Projects
From 2012 to 2014, Ritchie created a series of artworks. These works were made by many artists from the Top End region. They responded to comments made by a government official about Indigenous children. The art aimed to express strong feelings about these comments. In 2016, she worked with artists from the Borroloola region. This project was called Open Cut: Jacky Green, Sean Kerins, Therese Ritchie. It explored the complicated relationship between Aboriginal people and mining companies. These companies work on land important to Aboriginal communities.
Art Exhibitions
In 2010, an exhibition called Not Dead Yet was shown at the CDU Art Gallery. This show featured her work alongside another famous artist, Chips Mackinolty. A solo exhibition of her work, Burning Hearts, was displayed in 2019. This show was held at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
Where Her Art Is Kept
Therese Ritchie's artworks are part of many important collections. These include the National Gallery of Australia and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Her art is also found at the Araluen Arts Centre and the Gallery of Modern Art Queensland. Other places that collect her work are Artbank, Flinders University, and Charles Darwin University.
