Equinox

Christian Thompson

Christian Thompson (born 1978, Gawler, South Australia, Bidjara People) is a leading contemporary Australian photographer whose work explores notions of identity, cultural hybridity, and history. In many of Thompson’s photographs, he engages with the process of auto-ethnography. Merging a nuanced dream world and his autobiography, he draws out images that connect his own personal experience to wider social, political, and cultural meanings and understandings.

This exhibition features new photographs by Thompson. In this work, the artist is hidden beneath a wall of native Australian flowers. His piercing gaze acts as a metaphor for the internal emotional landscape, an expression of identity, and a gesture toward alternate narratives lying within the surface. Merging lived experience, the historical archive, and the contemporary present, Thompson’s work transcends the ethnographic gaze.