INVADED DREAMS, 2012

from the series WE BURY OUR OWN

type C photograph

100.0 x 100.0 cm (image)
104.0 x 104.0 cm (frame)

edition: 7/10

Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000

Sold:
$11,045 (inc. BP)

Lot 6

Christian Thompson

INVADED DREAMS

, 2012

lot details

Christian Thompson (born 1978)
INVADED DREAMS, 2012
from the series WE BURY OUR OWN
type C photograph
100.0 x 100.0 cm (image)
104.0 x 104.0 cm (frame)
edition: 7/10
Provenance

Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in August 2012
On long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, November 2016 – November 2020

Exhibited

Christian Thompson: We Bury Our Own, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 29 May – 23 June 2012 (another example)
Christian Thompson: We Bury Our Own, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney, 5 July – 4 August 2012 (another example)
Christian Thompson: We Bury Our Own, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK, 26 June 2012 – 6 January 2013 (another example)
Debil Debil, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 20 April – 6 July 2013 (another example)
Colonial Afterlives, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania, 8 March – 27 April 2015 (another example)
Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 6 August – 30 October 2016
Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA, 5 February – 18 September 2016 (another example)
Ritual Intimacy, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 4 May – 14 July 2018 and touring (another example)

Literature

Craig, G., and Presley, R., Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2016, pp. 59 (illus.), 91
Lowish, S., Rethinking Australia’s Art History. The Challenge of Aboriginal Art, Routledge, New York, 2018 (illus. cover, another example)

Related Works

Another example of this photograph is held in the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.