Anna Louise Richardson has developed a new body of work exploring rural mythology and storytelling. On the hunt is a continuation of her research into the existence of the Phantom Cat and emerges from a sense of vulnerability that arises when alone in the bush. Richardson’s drawings delve into the global mystery of a large feline cryptid stalking rural areas and conspiracy theories imposed on the natural environment.
Operating in the area between fiction and reality On the hunt originates from Richardson’s personal experience on the land as the sixth generation to live and work on a 3000 acre beef cattle farm in Western Australia. Her work considers rural mythology, rendering animal archetypes as tropes of national and personal identity, revealing how our relation to place (and nature more broadly) is filtered and shaped through layers of history, storytelling and imagination.
On the hunt is supported by the Government of Western Australia through the Department of Culture and the Arts.
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