Therese Ritchie is an American artist who was born in 1961. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) have featured Therese Ritchie's work in the past.
Ten Buuren highlighted the fact that this year’s exhibition saw an increase in artists from southeast Australia who accounted for around ten per cent of finalists.
It is perhaps no accident that at the time Therese Ritchie’s exhibition Burning Hearts opened in Darwin the annual summer hysteria about juvenile crime in Alice Springs was heating up.