Christopher Young
Christopher Young was born in small-town New Zealand in the mid-seventies. After finishing his studies he moved to Germany in 1996 before settling in Western Australia in 2002.
Isolation is a recurring theme in his life and work – the remoteness of growing up in semi-rural New Zealand, the loneliness of living in Germany as a poor German speaker and lately the geographic and ideological seclusion of life in Australia, have all coloured ...
Nine: No Vacancy
Ongoing
In 1984, my parents decided to take up the lease of a motel on the outskirts of a small village in New Zealand. In the early days they were very much...
The Careful Project
Ongoing
The Careful Project aims to develop highly engaging, compelling and surprising Virtual Reality experiences for aged care residents...
Eight: The Shift
2017-2021
Despite it being inevitable, death is not something we freely discuss. It is often seen as a taboo subject, especially intergenerationally...
Small Town
2012-2016
Small Town is an intimate look at a rural community where Christopher spent the first 10 years of his life...
Six
2012-2015
Heritage is more than where we live and what we live in, but how and why we live that way.
Poland
2011/2015
Poland is a land of extreme contrasts so ideally this should have been translated onto the wall...
Five
2008-2012
What or who is not there? What can’t we quite see? How do we overcome the helplessness of not being able to ground an image in a time line?
Drei
2006-2008
drei (German: three) is a series of artwork that addresses three specific aspects of Christopher's personal life and practice – people, place and objects...
Vier
2007
The protagonists are long since gone and the scene has often begun to decay. That which is left behind is the disposable and the unimportant...
What I Am
2005-2006
As a tribal species humans define themselves through memberships to groups and comparisons to others. We identify ourselves with the things that surround us and the things that we possess...
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