Eva Richardson

Born in Moonah, Hobert Eve Richardson is of the Trawlwoolway people of Cape Portland, north-east Tasmania. In 1994, Richardson attended the first Tasmanian Aboriginal women’s fibre workshop. It was at this workshop organised by Jennie Gorringe that she met several established fibre workers including Gwen Egg. Richardson has stated that it was these fibre workers sharing their knowledge and skills at the workshop that led to the reclamation of Tasmanian fibre arts.

Richardson herself believes in sharing knowledge especially with youth and has worked with the Aboriginal Education Speakers Program (now known as the Aboriginal Sharers of Knowledge program) and has been an Elder-in-Residence at Claremont College. In 2004 she was a storyteller for the Jump into School program run by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Education Association. She has also been a co-chair for the Tasmanian state reconciliation body Achieving Reconciliation Tasmania.

Richardson has exhibited widely and her work has been shown at the Moonah Arts Centre’s annual NAIDOC exhibitions (1995 to 1999). Other exhibitions include 'Island to Island’, Ten Days on the Island arts festival, Tasmania (2000); ‘Celebrating Our Elders’, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart (2002); 'Tactility: two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2003); ‘Material Girl’ Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart (2003 & 2005); ‘Twining Culture’, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart (2005) and ‘tayenbe’, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (2009).