Christian Thompson
ARTIST STATEMENT
CHRISTIAN THOMPSON
The work emerges somewhere from the conscious and unconscious realms. I’m interested in aesthetic gestures that can say something profound about the world we live in and the human condition. I’m always hunting and gathering, travelling across the world, across dreams and into memories of different times and places. These gestures, dreams and memories present themselves in a third realm and that is my practice, always changing, growing and reflecting something perhaps not seen previously. The incarnations in my conceptual portraits are inhabitants of these uncharted spaces; they reveal themselves in my work, they are not me, they are something else. The work first presents itself as an image, like a vision and then it is my job as artist to bring it into full form to find its suitable medium in this real world. A fundamental aspect of our nature as humans is to understand ourselves from many perspectives over time. I hope the audience is able to locate something of their own path in my work.
Christian Thompson, London, 2015
