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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 Performing as part of ‘FUND ME DADDY’
I’m very excited to be performing a brand new drag number this Friday at The Bearded Tit at ‘FUND ME DADDY’, a top surgery fundraiser
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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‘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
*Vitally* important @ladygaga 💃🏼
📸: @lexil0vesyou_
#mayhemballsydney #dragqueen #ladygaga #gaga #mayhemball
Monsters Never Die – The Mayhem Ball
Sydney, Friday the 12th of December
📸: @lexil0vesyou_
💃🏼: @dalessandroluke
💇♀️: @edendee123
💅: @nailcissist_official
It’s been 11 years since we saw Mother (Screamo Gaga) at The Art Rave. If she keeps this track record up the next time she graces us with her presence we both will be nearing 50.
It was time to do ‘my big one’. And my name… is Mother Mayhem.
Thank you to Lexi for taking one of my favourite collection of photos of me in drag (book them immediately). Thank you to Luke for creating this breathtaking Abracadabra look for me and making me feel absolutely indestructible for the 10+ hours I wore it for (!) Thank you to Sophie for helping (as always) with the shoot and with my bangs and for Eden for the hair wizardry and for cutting a very solid micro fringe.
This shoot happened pre-show out the front of the stadium. We basically just did an hours long meet and greet and it absolutely filled my heart with joy. So many baby queers feeling very seen and safe and very thrilled to see me. I took photos with every single family that asked me to. An honour.
Lexi was incredible and enlisted/directed the Little Monsters who appear in many of these shots. They were keen and hilarious and showered me with affirmation when the double corset started to really make herself known.
Oh, and that gaggle of disgusted little girls and their father – ACTING! GIVE ‘EM A BAFTA! That old man at the bus stop – ADORABLE! HIS WIFE DIDN’T WANT A BAR OF ME!
What a night. I met some incredible legends (looking at you @angelajb1975 and Marissa) and also Mother slayed quite hard.
The full photoset for the shoot is FREE to view on my Patre0n. You just have to chuck your email in a thing and press go. Little gift from Drag Cryptid Lord Farquad Gaga to you. Happy Holidays 🤘
#themayhemballsydney #ladygaga #drag
No one knows I was just a huge, crying, gift-wrapped abomination in Sydney Park… #latestagecapitalism
🎁 Non-refundably yours, darl.
🎁 All my Patrons are receiving this image in greeting card form as part of my annual Patreon Holiday Card tradition.
🎁 If you’d like me to send you one you have until Friday to sub at any tier to receive this cursed Chrissie Card.
🎁 Massive thanks to @dalessandroluke who created this entire look from scratch and to @shhhaylen for taking this incredible shot. The full photo set will be up on my Patreon for your viewing pleasure before Christmas Day.
#abandonedgift #christmascard #latestagecapitalism
I have catalogued all my available works for sale, by size, in one handy Google Doc. Give someone you love a truly unique and special gift this year that they’ll cherish forever. HMU and I’ll send you the link!
Cover photo by Sean Alves.
#workforsale #queerart #australianart
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