Collection
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art
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Title
Lamenting the flowers
2012
About
Christian Thompson is a photographer, performance and conceptual artist whose largely biographical practice is infused with wit, irony and humour. The consummate performer, it is difficult to separate Thompson from his work as he explores what it means to be Indigenous today and the relationships that exist between objects, space and history. Although Thompson has worked nationally and internationally, he frequently returns to his country around Barcaldine, in southwest Queensland.
Thompson's work 'Lamenting the flowers' is drawn from the series, 'We bury our own' 2012 which was developed during the artist's research into the Australian Indigenous photographic archive in the Pitt Rivers Museum of Oxford University, during Thompson's Doctoral studies. In this series Thompson examines the possibility of a spiritual repatriation from the archive, in the absence of a physical repatriation.
Details
Date
2012
Materials used
type C photograph
Dimensions
100.0 x 100.0 cm; 103.0 x 103.0 x 4.7 cm frame
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Collection Benefactors' Group 2014
Location
Not on display
Accession number
176.2014
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Exhibition history
We bury our own:
- Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 26 Jun 2012–17 Feb 2013
- Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Fitzroy 26 Jun 2012–21 Jul 2012
- Future Perfect, Singapore 14 Sep 2012–14 Oct 2012
- The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Charlottesville 22 Jan 2013–19 May 2013
Debil Debil, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 20 Apr 2013–06 Jul 2013
Embodiment, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Dec 2014–22 Mar 2015
Christian Thompson, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 26 Sep 2015–15 Nov 2015