Thompson's work Emotional Striptease 2003 reviewed here by Anita Angel at RealTime Arts
A comprehensive review of Emotional Striptease here on the blog of The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things.
On Thompson's own website here
Thompson is an inaugural Charlie Perkins Scholar at Oxford Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing: interview here in 2013
In We Bury Our Own at Pitt Rivers, Christian responds to photographic collections at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. In the essay on this page he is quoted as saying he is involved with 'spiritual repatriation of the archive'.
Rather than directly invoking or re-presenting historic imagery, as is
evident in the work of other artists such as Brook Andrew (who has also
worked extensively with archives), Thompson has chosen to take the
history of photographic representation of Aboriginal people as a
starting point for the spiritual repatriation of the archive through the
redemptive process of self-portraiture. Importantly, this process has
not involved drawing on those historical markers of identity which are
so prevalent in ethnographic imagery, but rather his own fluid and
evolving transcultural identity, as well as biographical markers of
another recent identity, that of an Oxford student in formal dress.
I first saw the three channel HD video work Heat (2010) in Art Gallery Western Australian and have since seen in at Musee d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux (2014) Here is a clip from Heat (2010)
Hettie Perkins Art & Soul part 2 2014 promo here references a couple of his works.
Vimeo of interview with Hetti Perkins, art + soul 2 episode three aired 22 July at 8:30pm on ABC1. 14 mins, here
Vimeo of interview with Hetti Perkins, art + soul 2 episode three aired 22 July at 8:30pm on ABC1. 14 mins, here
Lost Together (2009) here. I am writing on 'Dead as a Doornail' from this series shown in the 2013 Royal Academy exhibition 'Australia' in London.
Landscape, Siri Hayes, and Lost Together series reviewed by Alison Inglis here
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