Dr Christian Thompson AO, House of Gold installation view at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2024. Photo: Anna Hay.
Museums & Galleries of NSW

Dr Christian Thompson AO | House of Gold

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Dr Christian Thompson AO traverses and dissolves binary boundaries through an artistic practice that spans photography, performance, sculpture, moving image and sound. House of Gold draws inspiration from a line of Song Dynasty poetry 书中自有黄金屋 [shū zhōng zì yǒu huáng jīn wū], or, ‘a book in the hand holds a house of gold’, and explores Thompson’s Chinese heritage, dating back to the 1850s Gold Rush migration boom. The exhibition chronicles a personal history of intersectional identity at generational scale, where Thompson gives us glimpses of intimate moments shared between both his First Nations Bidjara and Cantonese family – learnings of language, food and self that make the artist whole.

Curated by Thea-Mai Baumann and Con Gerakaris with curatorial support from Reina Takeuchi from 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, the national tour of House of Gold, developed with Museums & Galleries of NSW, is bringing this exhibition to regional and public galleries across Australia from 2025 to 2028.

Visit House of Gold website here

Partners

  • Museums & Galleries of NSW
  • 4A Contemporary Asian Art Centre

Sponsors

A 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art exhibition, in partnership with Golden Dragon Museum Bendigo, supported by The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Global and touring with Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.

  • Golden Dragon Museum
  • The Robert H N Ho Family Foundation Global
  • Visions of Australia
  • Create NSW
  • NETS