Anna Louise Richardson and Rebecca Dagnall
“Interview series | Strangely Enough”
'Strangely Enough' forms part of a collection of writing and recorded conversations that describe experiences of preternatural communication with the natural world. These stories delve into those moments when contiguous worlds overlap, and the trauma of loss reconnects us to the world outside in new and unexpected ways.
This conversation between Anna Louise Richardson and Rebecca Dagnall is part of an interview series accompanying the collaborative exhibition ‘Watching’, by Anna and her husband Abdul-Rahman Abdullah at West Space.
Anna Louise Richardson is an artist and freelance curator investigating rural Australian identity and associated mythologies. Richardson works primarily in charcoal and graphite on cement fibreboard, using a realistic approach, flattened perspective, cut-out shapes and manipulated scale to amplify the subject matter. The complexities of human relationships with the natural world and the intergenerational qualities of these relationships are driving themes throughout her practice.
Rebecca Dagnall graduated from Curtain University in 2003 with Honours, and held her first solo exhibition in 2009 at Turner Galleries in Perth, Western Australia. She has since been invited to show around Australia and internationally. Highlights from many group exhibitions include 'Imagining the Everyday', an exhibition of Australian photographers' work', curated by Alasdair Foster in 2010 in China, and the touring exhibition 'Testing Ground', curated by Julie Gough in 2013. Her work has been exhibited at Australia's most prestigious public photography galleries including major solo exhibitions from 2010-2013 at the Australian Centre for Photography, the Monash Gallery of Art, Queensland Centre for Photography and in 2018 at the Perth Centre for Photography.