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Tom A Finalist in the 2024 Darling Portrait Prize

25/03/2024 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art

I am incredibly excited to be able to announce that I am one of the 25 Finalists in the 2024 Darling Portrait Prize. The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG (1921-2015).

The Finalist Exhibition will be shown at the National Portrait Gallery from the 22nd of June to the 22 September 2024. Bookings for tickets will open soon but you can keep updated by checking in with the Prize’s website.

Image credit: Tripadvisor

The winner of the $75,000 cash prize will be announced on the 21st of June 2024. I would love that if you are able to visit the exhibition you could tag me in any pictures of the show or my work so that I can see. The gallery is open from 10am – 5pm daily and is located on King Edward Terrace, Canberra.

From the Darling’s website: “The judges are seeking the most compelling recent Australian portrait painting, whether they honour or push the genre, offer unexpected insights into well-known faces, or centre everyday people to explore the breadth of Australian identity.”

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The 2023 Halloween Polaroid Project Is Here!

01/10/2023 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art, Photography

Happy Halloween! My annual spooky Polaroid Project has *just* launched. You can pick up a one of a kind, signed, Polaroid right here.

This year there are 18 Polaroids available for sale as well as a brand new short film. The first 2 Polaroid sales will come with signed, original props used in the ’23 Polaroid film. The first 10 Polaroid sales come with an A5, numbered, signed, glossy, hand-embellished print of a still from the first project.

Please note this series will only be available for sale during the month of October 2023. At midnight on Halloween (31/10/2023) any unsold Polaroids will be destroyed.

Plus, if you are subscribed to my Patreon you can check out a whole bunch of behind the scenes treats, exclusive footage and deleted scenes from the film. You can also download and view the film and all the promo videos in high definition for your own viewing pleasure throughout spooky season.

Happy Halloween! 🪓

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Beautiful Bizarre Interview with Freddy Grant

07/11/2018 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art

“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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“håmlet” @ Rapid Reads

09/04/2018 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Theatre

Image Source: Old 505

Following the success of 2017’s season, Rapid Reads is back at the Old 505. The festival will showcase the newest work from Australia’s most contemporary emerging playwrights, who will be paired with and mentored by some of our best established writers.

This year, Rapid Reads includes a series of panels, discussions and networking nights for a two-week joyride of new work including…

Photography by Philip Erbacher

what’s going on? it’s “hĂĄmlet” a new australian play. a half baked reading for free at Old 505 – Rapid Reads – 830 pm. @apocalypsetheatrecompany @_tomopoly 📷 @fleshskinhairblood #loveshakespeare

Saturday 14 April
8.30PM – ANTOINETTE BARBOUTTIS & TOM CHRISTOPHERSEN – HAMLET – A NEW AUSTRALIAN PLAY

Tickets available: HERE.

Text Source: Old 505.

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Dessin Sur Papier

18/07/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art

Dessin Sur Papier at Juxtapose Studios

Dessin Sur Papier at Juxtapose Studios

Sunday, 10th August 2014
As Part of SALA Festival

Dessin Sur Papier (Works on Paper) features a variety of skilled local artists exploring drawing mediums on paper in an themed open studio setting at Juxtapose Studios (SA). All works are for sale and each artist will be selling a limited run of affordable archival prints of selected works.

Meet selected artists behind the works 9th and 10th August.

Cosmo Antenucci, Michelle Avery, Glenda Bowen, Tom Christophersen, David Court, Alice Dolling, Janette Humble, Alessandra Jordan, Simon Tait, Viray Thach, Alina Vlasenko, Cuicui Zhou, Claire Foord

 Light refreshments served.

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