b. 1978, Gawler, South Australia Christian Thompson is one of Australia s leading conceptual installation artists. He is a Bidjara man of the Kunja Nation from southwest Queensland and is also of German Jewish heritage. His mother s family is from Gundagai in New South Wales. Christian spurns historical classification: my work like myself is in a constant state of flux . Christian s work relies heavily on the relationship between objects, space and history. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally and is held in the National Gallery of Australia Collection, the National Gallery of Victoria Collection and the Aboriginal Art Museum Collection in the Netherlands. His work has been exhibited extensively internationally in Thailand, Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, Canada, France, Italy and New Caledonia. Christian also works as a freelance curator and writer and has curated various exhbitions including What s Love Got To Do With It?, RMIT Gallery, High Tide Contemporary Indigenous Photography , Linden Centre for Contempoary Art, If You Only Knew , City Gallery Melbourne and White Hot New Art from Different Places , Hush Hush Gallery and City Lights. He was also the Curatorial Assistant to Brenda L Croft for the 2000 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Beyond the Pale . His writings include The Entrapped Tigress , Operation Honesty The Art of Gordon Hookey , Code Name Koorie , Fear and Desire The Art of Fiona Foley and Journey Down the Road .

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