Christian Thompson
(born 1978)
UNTITLED #4 (YELLOW KANGAROO PAW), 2007
from the series AUSTRALIAN GRAFFITI
type C photograph
100.0 x 100.0 cm (image)
104.0 x 104.0 cm (frame)
edition: 6/10
Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000
Sold:
$11,045 (inc. BP)
© courtesy of the artist and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin
lot details
104.0 x 104.0 cm (frame)
Chalk Horse, Sydney
Corrigan Collection, acquired from the above in June 2009
On long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, October 2010 – November 2020
Exhibited
Christian Thompson – Australian Graffiti, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 4 March – 20 April 2008 (another example)
Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 6 August – 30 October 2016
Indigenous Australian Photographers and Photography, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, May 2017 (another example)
Tracks and Traces: Contemporary Australian Art, Negev Museum of Art, Israel, 30 October 2017 – 10 February 2018 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue p.30)
Literature
Art and Australia, vol. 46, no. 4, Winter 2009 (illus. cover, another example)
Craig, G., and Presley, R., Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2016, pp. 2– 3 (illus.), 60 (illus.), 91
Carey, P., ‘Christian Thompson’s Ritual Intimacy exhibition charts the Australian artist’s ongoing wanderlust’, Australian Broadcasting Company, Sydney, 20 May 2018 (illus. another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria.


