Penelope Richardson is an Australian-born conceptual artist based in Munich, Germany. Her multidisciplinary practice explores themes of colonialism, migration, memory, and power, weaving together mediums such as painting, drawing, risography, artist books, sculpture, photography, and large-scale immersive installations. She also...
Read MorePenelope Richardson is an Australian-born conceptual artist based in Munich, Germany. Her multidisciplinary practice explores themes of colonialism, migration, memory, and power, weaving together mediums such as painting, drawing, risography, artist books, sculpture, photography, and large-scale immersive installations. She also creates participatory and site-specific works that invite interaction and reflect on spatial histories and residues of place.
Richardson’s work often emerges from research into historical sites and political landscapes, engaging with mythologies and personal experiences. Her creative outcomes range from the eerie and poetic to the playful and ironic, consciously using contradictions, humour, and a layered narrative approach.
She has exhibited widely in Europe, Australia, and Latin America, including at the Rothko Art Centre (Latvia), Art Safiental (Switzerland), the British Council (Colombia), and Kunstforum Arabellapark (Germany). Her artist books have been featured at Art Book Berlin.
Richardson holds degrees from the Sydney College of the Arts, the National Art School, and an MFA from RMIT University, Melbourne. She has completed over eight international artist residencies in Switzerland, Latvia, and Australia, and has received grants from the City of Munich, the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, and the Australia Council for the Arts.
Alongside her studio practice, she teaches drawing, printmaking, and risography at München Volkshochschule, Archiv Geiger, and her studio at Streitfeld. She is co-founder of the international women’s artist network MYCELIAArt, and a member of GEDOK München, BBK, and VG Bild-Kunst.
