Description
YOU ARE HERE is a book with truth-telling at its core. Designed and illustrated by Ritchie, it factually examines Australias frontier wars and the massacre of Indigenous peoples alongside the nations history of coal extraction and infrastructure development implemented by European settlers, mining companies and successive Australian governments. YOU ARE HERE is an unflinching examination of how we got to where we are now.
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Therese Ritchie completed a Batchelor of Fine Arts at the Northern Territory University (Charles Darwin University) in 1985. She undertook further studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne where she completed a Graduate Diploma in Film and Television/Animation in 1999 and was awarded the Australian Childrens Television Best Animation.
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She lectured in Graphic Design between 2000 and 2002 at Northern Territory University and completed her Masters by Research in Visual Arts at Charles Darwin University in 2004.
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Ritchie worked as a freelance photographer for theSydney Morning Herald,The Age,TimeandWho Magazinebefore joining Green Ant Research Arts and Publishing with Peter Cooke and Chips Mackinolty in 1991. Ritchie won the Fremantle Print Award in 2000 for a collaborative work with Mackinolty and in 2007 was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Artist in Residency in Los Angeles where she worked with the Los Angeles Poverty Department documenting police activity In Skid Row.
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A survey exhibition with Chips Mackinolty,Not Dead Yet,was held at the Charles Darwin University Gallery in 2010 and in 2019 a major retrospective exhibitionTherese Ritchie: burning heartsopened at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. In 2021 her exhibition, YOU ARE HERE, at Charles Darwin University, was the venue for CDUs public program on truth telling.
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Her work has been included in group exhibitions includingContemporary Australia: Womenat the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art and exhibitions at the Australian Centre for Photography; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and Flinders University Art Museum amongst others.
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