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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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I’ve been trying to have to work included in the @secret7s exhibition since 2011. Never before have I obsessively applied for a show like I have to this one.
In 2010 I had just graduated from Drama School, which was revolting, and I wanted to make visual art again. I read about this show, which would anonymously reproduce hundreds of 7” vinyls of incredible, already released bangers, with commissioned, submitted artworks from around the world. All the money raised from the vinyl sales would be donated to charities giving to children affected by conflict. The music was incredible. The cause important.
In my time applying for Secret 7” I have submitted work to appear on singles by Florence and the Machine, Massive Attack, Elton John and The Cure. All unsuccessful. Works I’m still proud of.
This year I thought I’d give the old girl another crack. A track ‘Purple’ by rock goddess SKIN, featured in her sophomore solo record, stood out. It came out in my first year of art school and I remember singing it as I walked through Hindley Street on my way to buy oil paints from Light Square.
I scoured Etsy for a chainmail hood. I asked my friend Zhana to create a makeup look appropriate for an experienced warrior. I snapped a black and white #Polaroid which I digitally coloured (in Photoshop, using a saturation mask, like a normal fckn human being without the use of any AI).
I was only allowed to listen to @skin_skunkanansie in my childhook home when my parent was not home OR through my shitty K-Mart discman’s headphones. No screaming.
I would watch the end of my VHS copy of Cruel Intentions just so I could practice singing like SKIN. This is before my Uncle would purchase the soundtrack for my birthday from The Compact Disc Shop (shout out) to the woe of my entire street. She is truly one of my favourite rock vocalists and musicians of all time. What an incredible honour to have a Polaroid I took be featured as her single art.
And what an incredible honour to feature a proud queer woman on the cover of a track by another proud queer woman. Thank you #SKIN. Thank you Zhana. Thank you #Secret7 and my sincere congratulations to all the artists involved.
I’ve been trying to have to work included in the @secret7s exhibition since 2011. Never before have I obsessively applied for a show like I have to this one.
In 2010 I had just graduated from Drama School, which was revolting, and I wanted to make visual art again. I read about this show, which would anonymously reproduce hundreds of 7” vinyls of incredible, already released bangers, with commissioned, submitted artworks from around the world. All the money raised from the vinyl sales would be donated to charities giving to children affected by conflict. The music was incredible. The cause important.
In my time applying for Secret 7” I have submitted work to appear on singles by Florence and the Machine, Massive Attack, Elton John and The Cure. All unsuccessful. Works I’m still proud of.
This year I thought I’d give the old girl another crack. A track ‘Purple’ by rock goddess SKIN, featured in her sophomore solo record, stood out. It came out in my first year of art school and I remember singing it as I walked through Hindley Street on my way to buy oil paints from Light Square.
I scoured Etsy for a chainmail hood. I asked my friend Zhana to create a makeup look appropriate for an experienced warrior. I snapped a black and white #Polaroid which I digitally coloured (in Photoshop, using a saturation mask, like a normal fckn human being without the use of any AI).
I was only allowed to listen to @skin_skunkanansie in my childhook home when my parent was not home OR through my shitty K-Mart discman’s headphones. No screaming.
I would watch the end of my VHS copy of Cruel Intentions just so I could practice singing like SKIN. This is before my Uncle would purchase the soundtrack for my birthday from The Compact Disc Shop (shout out) to the woe of my entire street. She is truly one of my favourite rock vocalists and musicians of all time. What an incredible honour to have a Polaroid I took be featured as her single art.
And what an incredible honour to feature a proud queer woman on the cover of a track by another proud queer woman. Thank you #SKIN. Thank you Zhana. Thank you #Secret7 and my sincere congratulations to all the artists involved.
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‘The Arch Window’ 🪟
2026
Shot on i-Type Polaroid
Full photoset available via my Patre0n tomorrow.
#polaroid #stainedglass #queerart
‘The Arch Window’ 🪟
2026
Shot on i-Type Polaroid
Full photoset available via my Patre0n tomorrow.
#polaroid #stainedglass #queerart
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…elyts ni kcab gnimoc si ekil uoy neeuq gard tahT ☕️
♦️Tickets on sale NOW. This is gonna sell out.
♦️If you were ever gonna come and see me do drag – this is the time.
♦️Link in bio. Brace yourself.
#davidlynch #drag #sydneydrag
…elyts ni kcab gnimoc si ekil uoy neeuq gard tahT ☕️
♦️Tickets on sale NOW. This is gonna sell out.
♦️If you were ever gonna come and see me do drag – this is the time.
♦️Link in bio. Brace yourself.
#davidlynch #drag #sydneydrag
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‘Portrait Of A Lady’
2026
20 x 24cm
Mixed media on @archespapers hot pressed watercolour paper
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Thank you so much to Leslie for commissioning me to capture her dearly departed, double-box loving diva, ‘Lady’.
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#commission #portrait #catinstagram
‘Portrait Of A Lady’
2026
20 x 24cm
Mixed media on @archespapers hot pressed watercolour paper
–
Thank you so much to Leslie for commissioning me to capture her dearly departed, double-box loving diva, ‘Lady’.
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#commission #portrait #catinstagram
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‘Jerk Off #1’ (Sold)
2026
A5
Mixed media on watercolour paper
For the @incognitoartshow
In the mid 60s Warhol did her big one and found a way to frame a queer sexual act in such a way that it was shown in galleries and museums across the world, to roomfuls of horny curators and bisexual art-film aficionados, to this day.
Warhol’s most vulnerable and perverse fantasies about routine celebrity and the commercialisation of sexuality are such common practice in 2026 I think even he would get the ick at how accurate he got it.
Despite this, mainstream society still remains chaste and sexuality, nakedness and art that deals with these subjects is still heavily censored or removed from digital platforms as a rule. A frustrating binary opposition.
By reimagining Warhol’s ‘Blow Job’ as an isolated solo act and drawing this triptych of screenshots from a real c*mshot created and performed for monetary gain, I am patching this work with a cursed update.
What do these expressions mean when I’m making myself perform them for you and they cost you $12.99 a month to see? What is real?
How are *you* feeling, watching me perform this feeling for you? Do you feel good seeing my body feel good? Is it working? (I don’t care).
Thank you to @drawingnicholasnyc for being such an incredible collaborator, model and for and helping me realise this series.
Featured above: ‘Blow Job’ (still) by Andy Warhol, 1964.
#portrait #moneyshot #warhol
‘Jerk Off #1’ (Sold)
2026
A5
Mixed media on watercolour paper
For the @incognitoartshow
In the mid 60s Warhol did her big one and found a way to frame a queer sexual act in such a way that it was shown in galleries and museums across the world, to roomfuls of horny curators and bisexual art-film aficionados, to this day.
Warhol’s most vulnerable and perverse fantasies about routine celebrity and the commercialisation of sexuality are such common practice in 2026 I think even he would get the ick at how accurate he got it.
Despite this, mainstream society still remains chaste and sexuality, nakedness and art that deals with these subjects is still heavily censored or removed from digital platforms as a rule. A frustrating binary opposition.
By reimagining Warhol’s ‘Blow Job’ as an isolated solo act and drawing this triptych of screenshots from a real c*mshot created and performed for monetary gain, I am patching this work with a cursed update.
What do these expressions mean when I’m making myself perform them for you and they cost you $12.99 a month to see? What is real?
How are *you* feeling, watching me perform this feeling for you? Do you feel good seeing my body feel good? Is it working? (I don’t care).
Thank you to @drawingnicholasnyc for being such an incredible collaborator, model and for and helping me realise this series.
Featured above: ‘Blow Job’ (still) by Andy Warhol, 1964.
#portrait #moneyshot #warhol
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‘Jerk Off #2’ (Sold)
2026
A5
Mixed media on watercolour paper
For the @incognitoartshow
In the mid 60s Warhol did her big one and found a way to frame a queer sexual act in such a way that it was shown in galleries and museums across the world, to roomfuls of horny curators and bisexual art-film aficionados, to this day.
Warhol’s most vulnerable and perverse fantasies about routine celebrity and the commercialisation of sexuality are such common practice in 2026 I think even he would get the ick at how accurate he got it.
Despite this, mainstream society still remains chaste and sexuality, nakedness and art that deals with these subjects is still heavily censored or removed from digital platforms as a rule. A frustrating binary opposition.
By reimagining Warhol’s ‘Blow Job’ as an isolated solo act and drawing this triptych of screenshots from a real c*mshot created and performed for monetary gain, I am patching this work with a cursed update.
What do these expressions mean when I’m making myself perform them for you and they cost you $12.99 a month to see? What is real?
How are *you* feeling, watching me perform this feeling for you? Do you feel good seeing my body feel good? Is it working? (I don’t care).
Thank you to @drawingnicholasnyc for being such an incredible collaborator, model and for and helping me realise this series.
Featured above: ‘Blow Job’ (still) by Andy Warhol, 1964.
#portrait #moneyshot #warhol
‘Jerk Off #2’ (Sold)
2026
A5
Mixed media on watercolour paper
For the @incognitoartshow
In the mid 60s Warhol did her big one and found a way to frame a queer sexual act in such a way that it was shown in galleries and museums across the world, to roomfuls of horny curators and bisexual art-film aficionados, to this day.
Warhol’s most vulnerable and perverse fantasies about routine celebrity and the commercialisation of sexuality are such common practice in 2026 I think even he would get the ick at how accurate he got it.
Despite this, mainstream society still remains chaste and sexuality, nakedness and art that deals with these subjects is still heavily censored or removed from digital platforms as a rule. A frustrating binary opposition.
By reimagining Warhol’s ‘Blow Job’ as an isolated solo act and drawing this triptych of screenshots from a real c*mshot created and performed for monetary gain, I am patching this work with a cursed update.
What do these expressions mean when I’m making myself perform them for you and they cost you $12.99 a month to see? What is real?
How are *you* feeling, watching me perform this feeling for you? Do you feel good seeing my body feel good? Is it working? (I don’t care).
Thank you to @drawingnicholasnyc for being such an incredible collaborator, model and for and helping me realise this series.
Featured above: ‘Blow Job’ (still) by Andy Warhol, 1964.
#portrait #moneyshot #warhol
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‘Jerk Off #3’ (Sold)
2026
A5
Mixed media on watercolour paper
For the @incognitoartshow
In the mid 60s Warhol did her big one and found a way to frame a queer sexual act in such a way that it was shown in galleries and museums across the world, to roomfuls of horny curators and bisexual art-film aficionados, to this day.
Warhol’s most vulnerable and perverse fantasies about routine celebrity and the commercialisation of sexuality are such common practice in 2026 I think even he would get the ick at how accurate he got it.
Despite this, mainstream society still remains chaste and sexuality, nakedness and art that deals with these subjects is still heavily censored or removed from digital platforms as a rule. A frustrating binary opposition.
By reimagining Warhol’s ‘Blow Job’ as an isolated solo act and drawing this triptych of screenshots from a real c*mshot created and performed for monetary gain, I am patching this work with a cursed update.
What do these expressions mean when I’m making myself perform them for you and they cost you $12.99 a month to see? What is real?
How are *you* feeling, watching me perform this feeling for you? Do you feel good seeing my body feel good? Is it working? (I don’t care).
Thank you to @drawingnicholasnyc for being such an incredible collaborator, model and for and helping me realise this series.
Featured above: ‘Blow Job’ (still) by Andy Warhol, 1964.
#portrait #moneyshot #warhol
‘Jerk Off #3’ (Sold)
2026
A5
Mixed media on watercolour paper
For the @incognitoartshow
In the mid 60s Warhol did her big one and found a way to frame a queer sexual act in such a way that it was shown in galleries and museums across the world, to roomfuls of horny curators and bisexual art-film aficionados, to this day.
Warhol’s most vulnerable and perverse fantasies about routine celebrity and the commercialisation of sexuality are such common practice in 2026 I think even he would get the ick at how accurate he got it.
Despite this, mainstream society still remains chaste and sexuality, nakedness and art that deals with these subjects is still heavily censored or removed from digital platforms as a rule. A frustrating binary opposition.
By reimagining Warhol’s ‘Blow Job’ as an isolated solo act and drawing this triptych of screenshots from a real c*mshot created and performed for monetary gain, I am patching this work with a cursed update.
What do these expressions mean when I’m making myself perform them for you and they cost you $12.99 a month to see? What is real?
How are *you* feeling, watching me perform this feeling for you? Do you feel good seeing my body feel good? Is it working? (I don’t care).
Thank you to @drawingnicholasnyc for being such an incredible collaborator, model and for and helping me realise this series.
Featured above: ‘Blow Job’ (still) by Andy Warhol, 1964.
#portrait #moneyshot #warhol
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Oh, God. They’re offended.
💿: @macyrodman
🪡: @ashdupre
📸: @patt_howard & @shhhaylen
✍️: @skorpion__king_
🛐 Full video (banned from the Bowery Theatre at @creativebrimbank – y’all can get tagged) via my Vimeo, my children.
Oh, God. They’re offended.
💿: @macyrodman
🪡: @ashdupre
📸: @patt_howard & @shhhaylen
✍️: @skorpion__king_
🛐 Full video (banned from the Bowery Theatre at @creativebrimbank – y’all can get tagged) via my Vimeo, my children.
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