‘YOU ARE HERE’ by Therese Ritchie is an exhibition with ‘truth-telling at its core’. Ritchie unleashes deep-felt concern for the processes of land appropriation that resulted in the formation of the Australian nation. For the most part, Ritchie’s digital imagery appropriates historical Australian paintings of landscapes and events commemorating the arrival of Europeans in Australia, overwriting them with text and timelines, which challenge the historical atrocities, discoveries, manoeuvres, ploys and misdemeanours, that have led us to this moment in Australia’s history.
Therese Ritchie, Mutant, 2020, digital inkjet print on paper, 50 × 80cm (image), 64 × 91.6cm (paper), On loan from the artist. Courtesy the artist and Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Northern Territory
Warning: Please be advised that the content of this exhibition may cause distress to viewers – especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Charles Darwin University Art Gallery
10 June to 17 July 2021
Northern Territory
