Geraldine is an Australian born visual artist, based in Naarm/Melbourne. She creates fictional landscapes to explore deep body memory from a feminist perspective. Using the internal landscape as a safe space for exploration, she searches for connection to the physical landscape, investigating form, nuanced colour and abstraction. She engages a design aesthetic that is influenced by a life immersed in rural Victoria and through growing up during the modern era, drawing upon conscious and unconscious memories in the process.

She studied and worked in horticulture, before undertaking an Advanced Diploma in Gestalt Therapy through Gestalt Therapy Australia in 2004. This was followed by a Master's in Counselling through Latrobe University (Melbourne) in 2010, before working for many years as a psychotherapist. Driven to deepen her creative voice, she committed to a career as a visual artist, attaining a Diploma of Visual Art in 2016 from Latrobe College of Art and Design (Melbourne) and a Master's of Fine Art in 2022 from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne). 

Recent exhibitions include Invisible at Red Gallery, Fitzroy (Melbourne, 2017), Somewhere Near Here at Art at St Francis (Melbourne, 2019) Fantasy Landscapes at Malvern Art Society (Melbourne, 2020), Counter Encounter at Studio 11/ Owen Dixon Chambers (Melbourne, 2022) and Not Nothing/ It’s Something, RMIT MFA Graduate Exhibition at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, 2022).

In 2019 she won the award for Best Contemporary works at the Flinders Art Show (2015), was awarded the Highly Commended prize in the Non-Traditional Painting section of the Camberwell Art Show (2019) and was shortlisted for the Clyde and Co Art Prize (2023). Her work is held in several collections in Australia and the United Kingdom.


CURRICULUM VITAE

GERALDINE RICHARDS
EDUCATION

2022

Master's of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia (RMIT)

2019

Art study tour with Robin Kingston through RMIT, New York

2016

Art study tour with Martina Copley through LCAD, New York

2016

Diploma in Visual Arts, Latrobe College of Art and Design, Melbourne, Australia (LCAD)

2015

Art study tour with Martina Copley and Honor Bradbeer through LCAD, Venice, Italy

2014

Art study tour with Michael Mark and Jane Cocks through LCAD, New York

2010

Master's of Counseling and Human Services, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia (LTU)

2007

Developmental Psychiatry Course, Melbourne and Monash Universities, Melbourne, Australia

2003

– 2005 Private tuition with artists John Lawry and Colin Johnson, Malvern, Melbourne, Australia

2004

Advanced Diploma of Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Therapy Australia (GTA), Melbourne

2002

Graduate Diploma of Business in Leadership and Organisation Dynamics, Swinburne University, Hawthorn

1986

Advanced Diploma in Horticulture, Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Burnley

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

‘Not Nothing/ It’s Something’, RMIT Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

2019

‘Somewhere Near Here’, Art at St Francis’, Melbourne

2010 – 2015

Several exhibitions in private residences throughout Melbourne

SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS

2022

‘Counter Encounter’ with Robyn Wilson, Studio 11/ Owen Dixon Chambers, Melbourne

2020

‘Fantasy Landscapes’, Malvern Artists Society with Robyn Wilson, Melbourne

2014

‘Urban Landscape’ with Clive Sinclair Melbourne, Panoply Gallery, Malvern

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

RMIT MFA Graduation Show, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

2021

Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn

2018

Flinders Art Show, Flinders.
Linden Postcard Art Prize, St Kilda.
Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn.
Mount View Primary Art Show, Glen Waverly

2017

‘Invisible’, Red Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn.
Mount View Primary Art Show, Glen Waverly

2016

Graduate Exhibition, Latrobe College of Art & Design.
Flinders Art Show, Flinders.
Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn.
Mount View Primary Art Show, Glen Waverly

2015

Place and Space, Red Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Linden Postcard Art Prize, St Kilda
Flinders Art Show, Flinders
Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn

2015

Venice Biennale Journal Exhibition as part of Guided Study Tour, Latrobe College, Collingwood

2014

New York Journal Exhibition as part of Guided Study Tour, Latrobe College, Collingwood
Linden Postcard Art Prize, Linden Gallery, St Kilda

2013

Linden Postcard Art Prize, St Kilda

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PRIZES

2021

Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn

2021

Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn

2017

Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn

2016

St Kevin’s Art Show, Toorak
Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn
Canterbury Primary School Art Show, Surrey Hills

2015

St Kevin’s Art Show, Toorak
Canterbury Primary School Art Show, Surrey Hills
Red Hill Art Show, Mornington Peninsular
Splash Art Show, Kew

2014

St Kevin’s Art Show, Toorak
Grace Cossington-Smith Art Award, Wahroonga, Sydney

AWARDS

2023

Finalist in the Clyde and Co Art Award

2023

Shortlisted for the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (Emerging Artist section)

2021

Highly Commended Prize for Non-Traditional Painting, Camberwell Art Show

2015

Award for Best Contemporary works, Flinders Art Show Regional, Victoria

REPRESENTED BY

2014 – 2016

Panoply Gallery, South Yarra, Melbourne

PAINTING COMMISSIONS
2015Maplewood Gifts
2016Sissy and Co.
2015–2023Private commissions
COLLECTIONS

Private collections in Australia and the U.K. 

Paul Delaney Architects, Melbourne, Australia

Artist Geraldine Richards
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