Richardson uses drawing to draw in, draw from, draw up, draw out, draw near ……………. connecting looking, thinking and feeling.

 

Drawing is diaristic, functioning as a repository used to consider the conscious and unconscious mind. Its immediacy and psychological release are empowering. Central motifs relating to the female body, familial relationships, the landscape and the domestic space are woven throughout like a web of associations. Once formulated, these recurring themes have undergone variations in different media over the years and so decipher themselves.

 

An art history that has been largely male-dominated spurs Richardson to dissent.  Through humour, irony, ambiguity and absurdity she uses drawing to inform diverse art making practices in order to critically examine female contexts of life and gendered difference.