Dr Christian Thompson has been awarded the Australian National University H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship. Thompson will take up the fellowship later this year joining an illustrious list of previous recipients including; Fiona Hall, Don Burrows, George Dreyfus, Narritjin Maymuru, Arthur Boyd, Sydney Nolan and Gordon Bennett. The H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship was established in 1964 at the instigation of Dr H.C. Coombs, ANU Pro-Chancellor at the time, to encourage creative work in the arts in Australia. SOURCE