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‘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
‘P.S. 10th Annual Postcard Exhibition’
I have created a work for Nucleus House’s 10th Annual Postcard Exhibition. Having contributed a work last year, I was honoured to be asked to
‘2 Day Rental’ VHS Group Exhibition
I’m absolutely thrilled to be included in Outpost 512’s next group exhibition: ‘2 Day Rental’ VHS Exhibition. This is the second annual VHS show Outpost
Tom Performing at ‘QUEER SAUNA SOUNDS’
I’m lucky enough to be performing at QUEER SAUNA SOUNDS hosted by Rave Temple at Sydney’s Sauna X, Thursday August 14th! This number was a
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.
Tom’s Sound & Video profiles
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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
Closing out 2025 and screaming ‘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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