Bidjara/Irish/Chinese–Australian artist Dr Christian Thompson AO’s work dissolves and traverses binary boundaries through a practice spanning performance, photography, sculpture, film, and sound – inhabiting imagined personas captured in fantastical environments.
Here, Thompson explores his Chinese heritage dating back to the 1850s Gold Rush migration boom, drawing inspiration from a line in the Song Dynasty poetry – a book in the hand holds a house of gold. First presented in 2024 at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, works see the artist populating colonial historical buildings.
Cairns Art Gallery
11 April to 14 June 2026
Queensland
Dr Christian Thompson AO, House of Gold Chapter 10 (Chinese Museum), 2023, c-type print on Moab Slickrock Metallic Pearl paper / Courtesy Studio Dr Christian Thompson AO and Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland
