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‘Mitcham Shops Are Burning Down’ A Finalist In The 2020 Collie Art Prize

03/02/2020 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Uncategorized

The Collie Art Gallery has once again launched one of regional Australia’s richest art prizes, following the success of the inaugural 2018 edition, which drew more than 500 entries nationally and attracted hundreds of visitors to the town.

https://www.collieartgallery.org.au/collie-art-prize/

I am so thrilled that my self-portrait, ‘Mitcham Shops Is Burning Down’ is a finalist in this year’s Collie Art Prize, which this year has the theme of ‘Identity’. The exhibition opens Friday the 29th of February from 6pm – 8pm and runs til the 5th of April.

Photography by Laura Du Ve Creative+
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‘Thanatophobia’ opens November 28th @ The Stockroom Gallery

26/10/2019 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art

My debut solo exhibition, ‘Thanatophobia’ opens Thursday November 28th at the The Stockroom Gallery, Melbourne from 6pm – 8pm and runs til December 8th.

‘Mitcham Shops Are Burning Down’, 2019 (Detail)

For sales enquiries and catalogue access please contact The Stockroom Gallery at: info@thestockroom.com.au

Click here to access a digital exhibition flyer.

Click here to RSVP to the ‘Thanatophobia’ Facebook Event.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE WORKS AND READ THE CATALOGUE ESSAY

‘Thanatophobia’, 2019, Film Still

To experience Thanatophobia is to be overwhelmed by a morbid dread of dying. Sydney-based Queer portraiture and performance artist Tom Christophersen presents his debut solo exhibition, and first exhibition in Melbourne, exploring the artist’s long-running anxieties pertaining to death.

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Imagined Group Exhibition

02/06/2019 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Uncategorized

Artists working from their imagination tend to wrestle with ideas and feelings located on a subconscious level. Consequently, Imagined (2019) is an exhibition that explores the work of fifteen artists’ who create work from their imaginings. Interspersed with varying subject matters, each artist plumbs the depths of their imagination as well as providing a glimpse into their creative trajectory. Overall, the exhibited works cast a curious eye on our world providing viewers with new perspectives. – Contemporary Art Awards

The Contemporary Arts Awards present
‘Imagined’
When: 2 June – 30th June
Where: Available to view here.

‘Himeros’ (detail), 2013, Mixed media on watercolour paper, 51 x 50cm

Exhibiting artists: Tom Christophersen, Michael Dyson, Paul Hagan, Hugh Kerr, Daniel Kneebone, Guillermo Jackson, Susannah Paterson, Beatrice Prost, Ruby Purple, Geoffrey Rose, Helen Shadforth, Michael Simms, Lauri Smith, Paris Tremayne and Michelle Webb.

‘Himeros’ framed archival prints available here.

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APACTALYPTIC

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

Photo Credit: Alex Apt

The second PACT Salon of the year: APACTALYPTIC curated by Cloé Fournier, will be bringing together some of Sydney’s most exciting artists from various disciplines to creatively reflect on their experience with “the ends of the world”. For one night only, PACT centre for emerging artists extends the invitation to you, to participate and revel in the trappings of life.

The ends of the world in a one-night stand.

In a time when the end of the world has been predicted more than once, we are still here…somehow. Barely alive but here. What does this really mean?

Source: APACTALYPTIC Facebook Event Page

Where: PACT
When: May 5, 6pm-10pm

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