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The 2024 Halloween Polaroid Project Is (Un)Alive!

This 2024 Halloween Polaroid Project ‘RESILIENCE’ is now up and running, fast. Be sure to check out this year’s film, shot and edited by stackhat and featuring Bella Louche with Luke D’Alessandro. You can then head to my web store where you can select Polaroids from the shoot to purchase.

This year is the Project’s fourth year and it is certainly the biggest and most ambitious film and Polaroid set we have created to date. We’ve upgraded to full sized, colour Polaroids (shot on i-Type Film) to accompany the stunning short film, available to watch in 4K.

There are a total of 36 Polaroids to choose from. If you are a subscriber to my Patreon you also get a massive $10 discount on any Polaroid Purchases you make. The Polaroids will only be available for purchase during the month of October. Any remaining Polaroids which have not sold will be destroyed at midnight on Halloween night, never to be seen again.

Thank you so much to everyone who has already supported the team and the project. Please continue to share the short film as well as images from the series. We’d like to infect as many people as possible.

‘Let it happen… it’ll feel so good’.

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‘TIFF #2’ A Finalist in the Lethbridge 2000 Exhibition

‘TIFF #2 ‘ will be featured as part of the Brisbane contingency of the art prize’s exhibitions, which are mounted in Sydney and Brisbane as well as online. See exhibition details below:

The Lethbridge 2000
27 June – 6 July 2019
7/11 Wambool Street, Bulimba QLD

To purchase this work and view the rest of the finalists click HERE.

‘TIFF #2’ detail.
‘TIFF #2’ as featured in INTERFACING. Photography by Michael Simms
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Beautiful Bizarre Interview with Freddy Grant

“Portraiture and performance artist Tom Christophersen knows the two disciplines go hand in hand. His portraits are a performance and he takes this truth to another level by more often than not working with performance artists as subjects. Christophersen grew up in Adelaide and is now based in Sydney, Australia. He is a theatre maker, performer, visual artist, facilitator, designer and illustrator, who likes “Twin Peaks, The Pixies and dark streaks” and is inspired by everything from succulent gardens to the Jonestown Massacre.

His works are a mixture of the macabre and the joyful that catch the more bizarre sides of his subjects. Christophersen’s cheeky and dark sense of humour, along with his politics, is evident in his compositions. Layered with symbols and meaning, he takes the great tradition of portrait as person, not simply a face and body, into the modern age using technology and millennial iconography in surprising and challenging ways.” – Freddy Grant

Check out the full interview over at Beautiful Bizarre by clicking here. 

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INTERFACING – NOW SHOWING TIL OCT. 6TH

‘INTERFACING’ with Michael Simms is now open at Stanley Street Gallery til the 6th of October.

Gallery Hours:

Wednesday – Friday 11am – 6pm
Saturday 11 – 5pm
or by appointment
Phone +61 (02) 9368 1142

Preview the works on the Stanley Street website here.

Read about the exhibition on the Beautiful Bizarre website here.

Download an exhibition catalogue here.

Photography by Michael Simms

Photography by Michael Simms

 

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‘INTERFACING’ @ STANLEY STREET GALLERY

12th September – 6th October 2018

Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney

INTERFACING’ is an explosive, collaborative figurative exhibition between two of Australia’s most exciting emerging visual artists. Tom Christophersen and Michael Simms present ‘INTERFACING’, an exploration into our flawed and often pixelated representations of ourselves. In an age of digital expression, ‘INTERFACING’ prises apart notions of dangerous self-representation and distorted identities via technology.

RSVP to the opening night of ‘INTERFACING’ here.

Download a media release for ‘INTERFACING’ here.

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