Mary-Jean Richardson (b.1964)

EDUCATION
2000 Bachelor of Visual Art (Hon.), Adelaide Central School of Art 
1999 New York Drawing Marathon, Adelaide.
1997 New York Drawing Marathon, Adelaide

AWARDS
2000 Emerging Visual Artist 2000, Adelaide Critics Circle Visual Art Prize 
2000 Comfort Pie, The Advertiser’s Best Emerging Artists Exhibition
1997 Internal Scholarship, Adelaide Central School of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 familiar, Studio 91B, Adelaide

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2002 The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2002 Melbourne Art Fair, Cube Contemporary Art, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2002 Pure, Cube Contemporary Art, Adelaide. (SALA Festival)
2002 If love fits wear it. TwinBEE studios, Adelaide Fringe
2001 W.H.A., Level 52, M.L.C. Building, Sydney
2001 Real Art! Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2001 Figures and Flesh, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2000 Comfort Pie, 220 Hindley St., Adelaide
2000 <riceart> presents duckylip, FAD Gallery, Adelaide
2000 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Gerard Goodman Building, Adelaide 
2000 Post Graduate, Adelaide Central Gallery
1998 Central Journey, Adelaide Central School of Art
1997 EVA Award Exhibition, Pultney Grammar School, Adelaide 

REVIEWS
Redlands Prize judges spoiled for choice, Anne Loxley, Sydney Morning Herald, 23/10/02
Like we did last summer, John Neylon, Adelaide Review, September 2001 
Salami, Stephanie Radok, Adelaide Review, September 2000
Fresh-Baked art on show, UniSA News, August 2000
When Art is Poles Apart, Wendy Walker, The Advertiser, and March 10, 2000 
Inside Art, Adelaide Review, March 2000

ARTICLES
Into the light, Wendy Walker, catalogue essay, familiar, 2002
Undiscovered artists, Samela Harris, Australian Art Collector, Issue 16, April-June 2001
Childlike inspiration, Samela Harris, Advertiser, February 16, 2001
The young Figure it out, Wendy Walker, Advertiser, July 29, 2000
Graduates make their mark, Tamara Agnew, Standard Messenger, March 1, 2000