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‘Big Time’ A Finalist in the 2026 Stanthorpe Art Prize
I’m incredibly thrilled that my portrait of Hoa Xuande, ‘Big Time’ has been chosen as a Finalist for the 2026 Stanthorpe Art Prize. The Stanthorpe
The 2026 Incognito Art Show
For the third year in a row I will anonymously exhibiting three brand new, A5 works as part of the 2026 Incognito Art Show. This
Tom Performing at Rave Temple’s Third Birthday Warehouse Party
Tom Performing at Rave Temple’s Third Birthday Warehouse Party Have you missed Tomopoly, my pink, demonic drag persona? Well, please, no more fretting, as they
‘CCR’ Outpost 512 Group Exhibition
I’m very thrilled to be participating in Outpost 512’s first group show for 2026: ‘CCR’, a celebration of horror directors John Carpenter, David Cronenberg and
Cooked Chooks @ Strawberry Fields
If you’re headed to Strawberry Fields Festival this weekend (the 21st to the 23rd of November) then be sure to catch Cooked Chooks at the
CHRISTOPHERSEN X MANNIX Magazine Preorder
Preorders have now opened for the CHRISTOPHERSEN X MANNIX Magazine! 18 pages featuring 37 stunning Jack Mannix photographs of me in the Luke D’Alessandro and
Tom Christophersen is an award winning Sydney based, Queer performer and visual artist
Tom Christophersen is an award winning Sydney based, Queer performer and visual artist whom is as petrified of beautiful things and death as much as they are transfixed by them. It is primarily the car-crashing of these two themes which permeate the hyper-realistic, almost surrealistic, often dark portraits and films they make.
Tom aims to bring focus back to portraiture that is of a level of detail it demands an intimate level of engagement from the viewer. Working almost exclusively on watercolour paper with watercolour pencil and acrylic, Tom hopes their traditional, technical approach to drawing and painting provide a fresh, immediate offering to portraiture and indeed representation of the self. The figures and themes within Tom’s work are often autobiographical and based on real life experiences.
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😈 First performance of 2026.
😈 Gonna debut a brand new number.
😈 Come witness absolute glamour and chaos in Marrickville.
😈 I’m opening a Portal.
10th July / Secret location in Marrickville.
From Rave Temple:
This is our biggest lineup yet! All these incredible artists we’ve worked with over the years are coming along to celebrate with us. It’s also our first B2B lineup, which is going to be incredibly special.
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DJs
Rocky Stallone B2B Stereogamous
Partigirl B2B Hollywould Star
ONARSE B2B Lady’s Dad
Performers
King Cuuntessa
Lexi Love
Tomopoly
Gem Yali
Nix
Rhys McBee
Viva Vivacious
We still have all our stalls, installations, and raffle prizes to announce.
🎟️: ravetemple dot com
#drag #clubkid #marrickville
I’m so humbled to learn that my portrait of @hoaxuande is a Finalist in the 2026 @stanthorpeartgallery Art Prize. The exhibition will open on the 12th of June and will be available for viewing until the 23rd of August.
My work is available for purchase. All sales enquiries should be made directly with the gallery.
Work details:
‘Big Time’
2025
Framed size: 74cm (W) x 93cm (H) x 4.5cm (D)
Work size: 56cm (W) x 76cm (H)
Watercolour pencil, watercolour paint and synthetic polymer paint on @archespapers Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper
Digital scan provided by my mates at @standishandco 💙
#hoaxuande #queerart #artprize #portrait
@derwentartau @fabercastellaustralia
‘Something Borrowed Time’
2026
Shot on i-Type Polaroid
Full photoset available via my Patre0n 💒
#polaroid #blackandwhitephotography #queerart
‘Spectacular Optical’
2026
28.8 x 15.8 cm
Watercolour paint, watercolour pencil and synthetic polymer paint on hot pressed watercolour paper.
As part of @outpost512’s ‘CCR’ group exhibition, celebrating the works of Carpenter, Cronenberg and Raimi. Opens May 1st at 7pm.
“North America’s getting soft, patrón, and the rest of the world is getting tough. Very, very tough.
We’re entering savage new times, and we’re going to have to be pure and direct and strong if we’re going to survive them.
Now, you and this cesspool you call a television station and your people who wallow around in it, your viewers who watch you do it, they’re rotting us away from the inside.
We intend to stop that rot.”
– Harland
#Videodrome #Cronenberg #fleshgun #bleedingframe
‘(In Our Lives) We Died Once Or Twice’
A Portrait of @dandawcp
2026
56 x 76cm
Watercolour pencil, watercolour paint and synthetic polymer paint on hot pressed watercolour paper.
Dan and I first met as young performers when I was 11 and he was barely a teenager. We were both cast in Fiona Sprott’s ‘(In My Life) I Died Once Or Twice’, a production about youth suicide, performed across Adelaide and Whyalla. This was my first ‘big production’. There’s a lot to say about that experience but in short – it exploded our lives apart and showed us, from very early on, how we could make theatre that mattered to us.
Dan is and always has been completely magnetic on stage. I remember watching him dance in the Urban Myth studio in 1999, jaw on the floor. He is an immense talent and I am very proud to know him. Dan continues to develop and perform spectacular theatre works across the world. He is a champion for queer and disabled performance, performers and their practices. If you haven’t seen a Dan Daw show, you need to go ahead and fix that as soon as possible.
Portraiture originally existed to document and capture important people in saintly garb or heavenly outfitting. Although heavily non-religious, double halo-ing Dan and capturing him in this light, in my own way, is the highest honour I could bestow upon a portraiture subject. A double ringed nimbus nods to someone particularly divine and or glorious.
I really gave this one my all.
Thank you for your trust and your art, Dan.
#dandaw #queerart #portrait
‘Necked Woods’
2026
i-type Polaroid Film
Full uncens0red photoset on my Patre0n.
#polaroid #mask #SADHIMBOS
2016
1. ‘Self Portrait Tattoo Design’, 10cm x 10cm, Ink on cartridge paper
2. ‘A Beach, A Hat’, 21 x 29.7cm, Mixed media on hot pressed watercolour paper
3. ‘Additive’, 26 x 36cm, Mixed media on hot pressed watercolour paper
4. ‘Brass Face’, 29 x 42cm, Mixed media on hot pressed watercolour paper
5. ‘Don’t Ask, William Tell’, 29.7 x 42cm, Mixed media on hot pressed watercolour paper
6. ‘All I Wanna Do’, Dimensions variable, spray paint
7. ‘All I Wanna Do’ for Feast Festival, Adelaide with Dannii Minogue, Dimensions variable, spray paint
8. ‘Harmony Boucher Tattoo Design’, 10 x 10cm, Tattoo by Brendan at ‘King St Tattoo’
9. ‘Epicene, 56 x 76cm, Mixed media on hot pressed watercolour paper
10. ‘Oysters’, 21 x 29.7cm, Mixed media on hot pressed watercolour paper
11. ‘Possessions’, 18 x 18cm, Mixed media on hot pressed watercolour paper
12. ‘Sagan’, 21 x 29.7cm, Mixed media on hot pressed watercolour paper
13. ‘Pat’, Mural in Carlton NSW, Mixed media
14. ‘Crystal Crown’, Construction, photography and post by Benjamin Fraser McKenzie
#queerart #australianartist #portrait
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