Christian Thompson, Molecular Melt. C-type print on Fuji pearl metallic paper, 100 x 100 cm. 2014. Courtesy of the artist.
Christian Thompson has a multidisciplinary practice, engaging mediums such as photography, video, sculpture, performance and sound. His work provocatively addresses a myriad of themes, from the sensorial replication of memory, the mythology of landscape, to the critical parody and deconstruction of the identity of the artist.
Thompson has just completed his doctorate through the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, and is Te Whare Hēra’s inaugural artist-in-residence.
During his residency at Te Whare Hēra, Thompson produced Eight Limbs (2014) a series of C-type photographic prints of spiralling geometric images of Bidjara words. The Bidjara language, an indigenous Australian language, was declared extinct in the 1980’s. Thompson’s other residency work Refuge (2014) is a video project intended to re-energise Bidjara through the form of a modern pop song.
