About

Richard is a Melbourne-based educator, illustrator, and visual artist specialising in ink on paper. 
His work features figurative forms, confident minimalistic lines, and spontaneous compositions, created using dip pen, brush, and print-making. 

Drawing from both observation and imagination Richard explores themes of character and connection, influenced by an enduring interest in antiquity.

Richard making an observational monoprint
photo credit: Filippo Messina 


Artist CV

Richard Morden (b. 1972, Australia)

Solo exhibition
2025 Catopia, Artemisia Gallery, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions
2024 Mask, Artemisia Gallery, Melbourne
2023 Australian Monoprint Prize, Fire Station Print Studio, Melbourne
2023 Bare, Sol Gallery, Melbourne
2023 Unearthed Art Prize, Art to Art Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Grow Illustrators Australia, Victorian Artists Society gallery, Melbourne
2018 Shout Illustrators Australia, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Life Model Society art prize, Gasworks Arts Park gallery, Melbourne
2017 Paper and Pixel Illustrators Australia, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Play Illustrators Australia, Abbotsford Convent gallery, Melbourne
2015 Wear Art Thou Illustrators Australia, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Bimblebox 153 Birds, touring regional galleries, Australia
2013 Flourish Illustrators Australia, Abbotsford Convent gallery, Melbourne
2012 Carnivale Illustrators Australia, Space 39 Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Beautiful Soup group print show curated by Rona Green, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2011 Rapture Illustrators Australia, Space 39 Gallery, Melbourne
2010 A3 Show Illustrators Australia, Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne
2007 ‘50’ group print show curated by Rona Green, Geelong Gallery, Geelong

Awards
2023 Finalist Australian Monoprint Awards
2023 Finalist Art to Art Unearthed Art Prize
2015 Redbubble choice award, Wear Art Thou Illustrators Australia
2013 People’s choice award, A3 show Illustrators Australia
2005 Notable Award, CBCA Crichton children’s book illustration

Collections
2007 Geelong Gallery

Teaching
2024 Digital art, illustration, life drawing for Cert IV Visual Art Northern College of the Arts and Technology

Professional appointments
2017 2018 President, illustrators Australia
2016 Vice President, Illustrators Australia

Education
1992 1993 Associate Diploma of Art, Northern Metropolitan College of Tafe