Alethea Richter
Born in Australia, lives and works in Brisbane.
Alethea Richter's practice is an evolving response to our post-digital age. She often uses pixel-like marks as devices to investigate optical noise, digital fluidity, and perceptual instability. In her work, the silkscreen process anchors the electronic screen's colour, light, movement, and patterning to the printed surface. These ephemeral qualities become physical and tangible, exploring the contemporary image's changing sense of materiality.
“Filtered Light: Countering Digital Uncertainty Through Material Process” is Alethea Richter’s most recent body of work as part of her Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) investigating how the materiality of the hand printed and woven object can respond to visual uncertainty in the post-digital era.
In 2023, Alethea was awarded the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Emerging Artist Prize and selected for the Print Council of Australia 2023 Print Commission. She was awarded in 2022 with the Grey Hand Press Internship Award and was a nominee for the Iain Turnbull Memorial Prize in 2021.
Alethea has been selected for multiple group exhibitions including Disruption International Printmaking Exchange 2023, Megalo Print Studios (Canberra) Future Proof National Graduate Online Print Exhibition 2022, and the Highpoint Centre for Print International Juried Print Exhibition Stand Out Prints 2022 and 2024, Minneapolis. Richter has also exhibited her work at Sydney Contemporary since 2024.
In 2024, Alethea was awarded ‘Best in Show’ at the Ipswich Art Awards and in 2025 the Emerging Artist winner at the Burnie Print Prize, Tasmania and the Turnbull Award, Brisbane, in recognition of her outstanding work in contemporary printmaking at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University.
2024
Hand woven and hand printed multilayer silkscreen on cotton rag
76cm x 43.6cm
Photo credit: Louis Lim