In January, for the first time in 450 years of history, Trinity College, Oxford, removed it’s collection of ancient paintings hung within the dining room and replaced them with an array of Thompson's work. These pieces are from one of Thompson's latest series of photographic self portraits ‘We Bury Our Own’. Invaded Dreams is one from a series of Thompson's works titled We Bury Our Own in which he created in response to the Australian colonial archive collection held by the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England. The museum holds a collection of ethnographic photographs of Indigenous Australians made during Australia’s early colonial period. Thompson’s research coincided with a project initiated by the Australian Research Council to research and
