Therese Ritchie (born 1961) is an Australian contemporary artist, writer and graphic designer, based in Darwin in the Northern Territory.
She is known for her collaborations with Chips Mackinolty and Peter Cook, including founding Green Ant Research Arts and Publishing in 1990, and for her representation of Aboriginal Australian issues.
Ritchie produced a range of publications and exhibitions known as LittlePricks from 2012 to 2014, featuring work by many Top End artists in response to comments by Rob Knight, the then Northern Territory Minister for Young Territorians, who called Indigenous children "little pricks" for burning the Australian flag during the Australia Day demonstrations in Canberra.
[5] She collaborated with artists from the Borroloola region in 2016 on Open Cut: Jacky Green, Sean Kerins, Therese Ritchie an exploration of the complex relationship between Aboriginal people and the mining companies working on their land.
[6][7][8] A retrospective of her work with renowned artist Chips Mackinolty, Not Dead Yet, was exhibited at the CDU Art Gallery in 2010.