tom nicholson

Tom Nicholson completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1998 and has since presented individual exhibitions at
West Space, Melbourne 2003;
Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne 2003;
Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin 2002;
and West Space, Melbourne 2000.

Recent group exhibitions include ‘Feedback: Art, Social Consciousness and Resistance’, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2003; ‘The Office of Utopic Procedures’, West Space, Melbourne 2001; ‘Critical Response’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 2000; ‘Action/Recollection: Here the body is’, West Space, Melbourne 2000; and ‘Drawing in the 90s’, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 1997.

In 2000 he was the recipient of the Queens Trust for Young Australians award and an Australia Council New Work grant. In 2002 he received an Australia Council grant to live and work in Berlin, where he developed new work for exhibition in Berlin and Melbourne.

Tom is an active writer of reviews and criticism, and has been published in journals such as Art/Text, Art and Australia and Like, Art Magazine, as well as in exhibition catalogues published by the National Gallery of Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery, Wilhelm Fabry Museum (Germany), Artspace Visual Arts Centre, and West Space.

from gertrude


at the australian centre for moving image
with Raafat Ishak (2004)
at the australian centre for contemporary art (2004)
at iaska
at empyre
age review
in art/text