We bury our own (series of 8)
Christian THOMPSON: artist
For this series, We bury our own 2012, Christian Thompson has drawn upon archives held in the great and strange Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford… The museum holds thousands of photographs of Aboriginal people collected for ethnographic and anthropological purposes… [Thomspon] has visited these images, not to duplicate them in any sense, or to borrow a pose or a garment – as he done in past works, but to immerse himself in what he describes as acts of ‘spiritual repatriation’ (John Barrett-Lennard, Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2013).
Further still, at the centre of these works is a deep respect for Aboriginal people, culture and life.
Further still, at the centre of these works is a deep respect for Aboriginal people, culture and life.
Title
We bury our own (series of 8)
Artist/Maker and role
Christian THOMPSON: artist
Date
2012
Medium
C-type print
Measurements
98.0 x 98.0 cm each (sheet)
104.5 x 104.5 x 4.5 cm (each) (framed)
104.5 x 104.5 x 4.5 cm (each) (framed)
Credit line
Purchased through The Leah Jane Cohen Bequest, The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2015
© Christian Thompson, 2012
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2015/0006.1-8