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BIO: Artist and Performer

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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Visual Artist and Performer
Gadigal Land | Sydney, Australia
Way down down down in this subbacultcha

Closing out 2025 and screaming β€˜heyaaaa’ to 2026 whilst my left eye isolates and slowly drifts across my face like Pennywise The Dancing Clown.

This incredible shot was taken by @melaskomedia and it is a pretty good visual representation of 2025.

Last year was a biggie. Lots to be grateful for. Lots of challenges. I posted some thoughts on Patre0n and also forced myself to celebrate some wins which included:

* ​Being a Finalist in two Australian Art Prizes
* ​Participating in 7 group exhibitions including 4 overseas exhibitions in America
* ​Creating 9 new original artworks
* ​Having my art digitally published in Array 2 by @booooooom
* ​Performing in drag 5 times across the country (including at a SOP Gay Sauna) and at @strawberryfields_festival (thank you @bellalouche and @ravetemplerave)
* ​Launching and half-selling-out the largest and most ambitious Halloween Polaroid Project to date (the 5th in my 10 year opus)
* ​Having my art featured in @beautifulbizarremagazine
* I also published a new piece of content to Patre0n every single week – even when one (1) post was taken down for TOS (oop)

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting and or helping me make my art this year. Fuck M3ta (going 10 years strong shadowbanned to the gods) but I really do enjoy sharing my work with you.

I’ll see you this year with more things and more art x

#newyear #australianartist #drag

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Closing out 2025 and screaming β€˜heyaaaa’ to 2026 whilst my left eye isolates and slowly drifts across my face like Pennywise The Dancing Clown. This incredible shot was taken by @melaskomedia and it is a pretty good visual representation of 2025. Last year was a biggie. Lots to be grateful for. Lots of challenges. I posted some thoughts on Patre0n and also forced myself to celebrate some wins which included: * ​Being a Finalist in two Australian Art Prizes * ​Participating in 7 group exhibitions including 4 overseas exhibitions in America * ​Creating 9 new original artworks * ​Having my art digitally published in Array 2 by @booooooom * ​Performing in drag 5 times across the country (including at a SOP Gay Sauna) and at @strawberryfields_festival (thank you @bellalouche and @ravetemplerave) * ​Launching and half-selling-out the largest and most ambitious Halloween Polaroid Project to date (the 5th in my 10 year opus) * ​Having my art featured in @beautifulbizarremagazine * I also published a new piece of content to Patre0n every single week - even when one (1) post was taken down for TOS (oop) Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting and or helping me make my art this year. Fuck M3ta (going 10 years strong shadowbanned to the gods) but I really do enjoy sharing my work with you. I’ll see you this year with more things and more art x #newyear #australianartist #drag

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*Vitally* important ​⁠@ladygaga πŸ’ƒπŸΌ
πŸ“Έ: @lexil0vesyou_
#mayhemballsydney #dragqueen #ladygaga #gaga #mayhemball

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*Vitally* important ​⁠@ladygaga πŸ’ƒπŸΌ πŸ“Έ: @lexil0vesyou_ #mayhemballsydney #dragqueen #ladygaga #gaga #mayhemball

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No one knows I was just a huge, crying, gift-wrapped abomination in Sydney Park… #latestagecapitalism

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No one knows I was just a huge, crying, gift-wrapped abomination in Sydney Park… #latestagecapitalism

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Tom acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. They pay their respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.