Tom Nicholson explores the visual languages of politics and propaganda with a focus on the relationship between actions and their traces. Nicholson was trained in drawing at the Victorian College of the Arts, a tradition that greatly informs his practice, which also includes performance and interdisciplinary projects.
Tom Nicholson
Nicholson’s work has featured in numerous solo exhibitions including Comparative monument (Ma'man Allah), Milani Gallery, Brisbane; Cartoons for Joseph Selleny, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2014); Proposition for a banner march and a black cube hot air balloon, with Raafat Ishak, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria (2012); Drawings and correspondence, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (2011); Camp Pell Lecture, with Tony Birch, Artspace, Sydney (2010); After action for another library, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand (2008) and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (2005); Melancholia (Documents after five actions, Berlin), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2003).
Selected group exhibitions include The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2017); Dissenting Voices, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2016); Maju Kena, Mundur Kena (Neither forward nor back): Learning in The Present, 16th Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia (2015); Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Biennial 2012, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville (2012); Rehearsal, 8th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2010); Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006); NEW04, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2004).
Nicholson’s work is held in the collection of numerous public institutions throughout Australia including the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Born 1973 Melbourne, Australia. Live and works in Melbourne
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
- Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2018
- Drawings and correspondence, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2017
- ‘I was born in Indonesia’, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2014
- Comparative monument (Ma'man Allah), Milani Gallery, Brisbane
- Cartoons for Joseph Selleny, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2012
- Proposition for a banner march and a black cube hot air balloon (with Raafat Ishak), Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton.
2011
- Drawings and correspondence, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.
2010
- Camp Pell Lecture, in collaboration with Tony Birch, Artspace, Sydney.
2009
- Lines towards another century, in collaboration with Andrew Byrne, Parco delle Rimembranze. Performance with the Italian contemporary music ensemble, L’Arsenale.
2008
- Lines towards another century, in collaboration with Andrew Byrne, Holburne Museum. Performance with the Elysian Quartet.
- After action for another library, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, and Pakuranga Library, Auckland, New Zealand.
2007
- Documents from a banner marching project, Ocular Lab Inc, Melbourne.
2006
- Traces towards four Coranderrk drawings in a Berlin store-room, Plattform, Berlin.
- After action for another library, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.
- Flag Time: Marat at his last breath, Ocular Lab, Melbourne.
2004
- 22.06.1911/30.10.2004: Documents after Marching Season, IASKA (The Aurora Project, Regent Theatre), Kellerberrin.
2003
- After action for another library, Humboldt University, Berlin.
- Stills from an archive into five actions, Australia Centre, Berlin.
- Melancholia (Documents after five actions, Berlin), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
- Fragments from an archive into five actions, West Space, Melbourne.
- Anarchist Salon (with David Corbet), Ocular Lab, Melbourne.
2002
- Documents after five actions, Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin.
- Fragments from an archive into five actions, studio exhibition, Berlin.
2001
- After action against book burning (Two fragments for a disused Stasi office), studio exhibition, Berlin.
2000
- After Dili Action, West Space, Melbourne.
1999
- Collaborative Project: A Syntax into Six Landings, with John Abbate, Public Office, Melbourne.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
- MCA Collection: Perspectives on Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Who’s afraid of public space?, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2020
- Things Untangling, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and Kadist, Japan
- Too many Cooks, curated by Greg Lehman, Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart
- Civics, curated by Laura McLean, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery
2019
- AUSTRALIA. ANTIPODEAN STORIES, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
- Caught stealing, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2018
- Imagined Borders, 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
- 21st Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Frontier Imaginaries ed. 5: Trade Markings, Vanabbe Museum, Eindhoven
- State of the Union, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2017
- The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Dissenting Voices, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth - The Great Strike, Carriageworks, Sydney
- Power and other things: Indonesia and Art 1835-now; Europalia Arts Festival, Bozar, Brussels
- All that is Solid…, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria
- Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism & Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2016
- The Jerusalem Show: Before and after origins, Qalandiya International, Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza
- Antipodes, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Frontier Imaginaries, QUT Art Museum and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
CCP Declares: On the Social Contract, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne - Lines that could be Scars, Australian Print Workshop, National History Museum, Canberra
- Now is the Hour: Recent Acquisitions, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne
2015
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‘Neither Back Nor Forward: Acting in the Present’, 16th Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia
A Breathcrystal, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland - PP/VT (Performance Presence/Video Time), Australian Experimental Art Foundation
Qalandiya International, Jerusalem, Israel
2014
- The Allegory of the Cave Painting, Extra City, Antwerp
- Conflict: Contemporary responses to war, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
- Concrete, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2013
- Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2012
- Propositions Part Two, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
- Parallel Collisions, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
- Sonic Spheres (with Andrew Byrne), TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art.
- Radio Alice (with Riccardo Vaglini), Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA.
- Paul Guest Prize for Drawing, Bendigo Art Gallery.
- Liquid Archives (with Raafat Ishak), Monash University Museum of Art; Ocular Lab; Margaret Lawrence Gallery; VCA; University of Melbourne.
2011
- Surviving the future, curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrom, Murmansk Art Museum, Murmansk, Russia.
- Second World, curated by WHW, Galleria Nova, Zagreb, Croatia; Visual arts component of Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
- Without Words: Photography and Emotion, curated by Kyla McFarlane, CCP, Melbourne.
- 10 ways to look at the past, curated by Jane Devery, July, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
- Finalist exhibition of the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, Federation Square.
2010
- Rehearsal, The 8th Shanghai Biennale, curated by Gao Shiming, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai.
- Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, 4th Auckland Triennial, curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery and associated venues, Auckland.
- Animism, curated by Anselm Franke, Extra City and MUHKA, Antwerp.
- To the Arts, Citizens, curated by Oscar Faria and Joao Fernandes, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal.
- Kent State: Four Decades Later, curated by Ann Stephen and Luke Parker, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney.
- Still vast reserves II, curated by Emily Cormack, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
- Duetto (in collaboration with Tony Birch), curated by Domenico de Clario, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
- The Art of War, curated by Sean Donaher, CEPA, Buffalo.
2009
- Word, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney.
- Still vast reserves, curated by Alexie Glass, Francesco Stocchi, and Emily Cormack, Galleria Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome.
- West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial (with Raafat Ishak), curated by OSW (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, and Scott Mitchell), over four sites: wBST base camp, 135 Union Street, Brunswick; Anstey and Ashton; Ocular Lab; Nikos' Rear Entrance; and 461 Albert Street, Brunswick West.
- Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, curated by Natasha Bullock, an Asialink touring exhibition, the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Gallery (NAFA), Singapore.
- The Gift, June 12 – 28, I. C. A. N., Sydney.
- +/-, curated by Danny Lacy, 7 September – 9 October, curated by the Monash University Museum of Art at the Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne
2008
- Since we last spoke about monuments, curated by Mihnea Mircan, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, 12 September-November 4.
- The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture Finalists Exhibition, Federation Square, Melbourne, 10-24 November (in collaboration with Raafat Ishak).
- Form and discontent, curated by Brad Haylock and Misa Glisovic, Dont come, Melbourne, 12 December 2008 - 3 January 2009; casa roja (in collaboration with Domenico de Clario), performance as part of The Artist in the World programme, 2 April, Federation Hall, Centre for Ideas, VCA.
2007
- Regarding Fear and Hope, curated by Victoria Lynn, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, and the Monash Faculty Gallery, Caulfield, Melbourne, 5 July - 28 July (Caulfield), 4 July - 25 August (Clayton).
- System error: War is a force that gives us meaning, curated by Lorenzo Fusi and Naeem Mohaiemen, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, 3 February-6 May 2007.
- Proposition for an action with banners and a black cube hot air balloon (action with Raafat Ishak), 13 March, Arden Street Football Ground, North Melbourne; (as casa amarilla, in collaboration with Domenico de Clario) Odradek, 15-31 August, Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne.
2006
- Zones of contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney, curated by Dr Charles Merewether, 7 June – 27 August.
- Transversa, as part of The South Project, Museum of Contemporary Art and Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile, October.
- Trinity Nine, an Ocular Lab project at Trinity College, Melbourne, including John Abbate, Damiano Bertoli, Sandra Bridie, Julie Davies, Raafat Ishak, Sean Loughrey, Sally Mannall, and Alex Rizkalla, 8-27 August.
- Endgame: Late-capitalist Realism (with Andrew Byrne), a project by The Office of Utopic Procedures, VCA Gallery, 14 September-9 October.
- New Social Commentaries, Warrnambool Art Gallery, 2 September-5 November; Ghosts of self and state, curated by Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, 5 April – 10 June.
- Banners held high: The 150th Anniversary of May Day/Labour Day, curated by Jo Holder, The Cross Art Project, Sydney, 6 - 27 May
2005
- The body. The ruin, curated by Bridget Crone, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, 5 November – 22 January.
- The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, finalists exhibition, Federation Square, Melbourne, 9 – 20 November.
- course, with Jan Svenungsson, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, July 29-31; Re/thinking, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, 4 September – 22 October; Ocular Lab: 12, curated by Kirsten Rann and Alex Rizkalla, Spacement, Melbourne,19 April-7 May.
- From Space to Place, curated by Marco Marcon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, 31 March-8 May.
2004
- 2004: Australian Culture Now (with Raafat Ishak), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, June-August.
- NEW04, curated by Geraldine Barlow, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 23 March-19 May.
- Performance anxiety, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, February.
2003
- Curiosity kills the gab, curated by Tobias Berger, Artspace, Auckland.
- Feedback: Art, Social Consciousness, and Resistance, curated by Charlotte Day, Monash University Museum of Art, 19 March-10 May.
- Video Loop: Actions, curated by Blair French, Performance Space, Sydney, July.
2001
- The Office of Utopic Procedures, West Space, October-November.
- The Stolen Generations Memorial Competition (in collaboration with Louisa Bufardeci), June-August, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne.
2000
- Critical Response, curated by Felicity Fenner, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 29 April-27 May.
- Action/Recollection: Here the body is, West Space, 13 July-5 August; Drawing: The Extended Field, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, September.
1998
- VCA Graduate Exhibition, Drawing Department, VCA. 1997: Drawing in the 90s, Sutton Gallery, Fitzroy.
Selected Permanent Public Artworks
2022
- Chimney in store (Towards a monument to Batman’s Treaty), permanent public commission at Batman Park, Melbourne, co-commissioned by City of Melbourne and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
2019
- (with Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO and Jonathan Jones) untitled (seven monuments),
permanent public work in seven parts, in the landscape in and around Healesville, http://www.untitledsevenmonuments.com.au/ - Towards a glass monument, permanent public stained glass window commission, Old Quad, University of Melbourne
Artists’ Books
2021
- Chimney in store (Towards a monument to Batman’s Treaty), designed Ziga Testen (Melbourne: ACCA, 2021), artist’s book, component of a permanent public commission at Batman Park, Melbourne, co-commissioned by City of Melbourne and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
2018
- Gorge photograph, designed Brad Haylock (Melbourne: Surpllus, 2018);
- Stranger at fountain, designed Ziga Testen (Gwangju: Gwangju Biennale, 2018)
2014
- Comparative monument (Ma’man Allah), designed with Ziga Testen (Melbourne: Surpllus, 2014)
- (with Jonathan Jones) Evening shadows/Murray-Darling Hang, designed with Ziga Testen (Melbourne: Surpllus, 2014);
- Cartoons for Joseph Selleny, designed with Brad Haylock (Melbourne: Surpllus, 2014
2010
- Drawings and correspondence, designed with Brad Haylock (Melbourne: Surpllus, 2010), published for the exhibition Animsim, Extra City and MUHKA, 2010.
2009
- Monument for the flooding of Royal Park, designed with Brad Haylock (Melbourne: Schwartz City, 2009).
2003
- After action for another library, designed with Brad Haylock (first edition: Melbourne: Self-published, 2003; second edition: Melbourne/ Siena: Self-published in conjunction with Palazzo delle Papesse for the exhibition System Error: War is a force that gives us meaning, 2007).
Selected Bibliography
2019
- Ian McLean, Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting (review), Artlink 39, no. 2 (2019). https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4767/tom-nicholson-public-meeting/.
2018
- Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes (ed.), Tom Nicholson: Lines towards Another, Sternberg Press, 2018.
2017
- John Daly-Peoples, The National: All the Best of New Australian Art, National Business Review, 6th April, 2017. https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/national-all-best-new-australian-art-jd-201647.
- Sophie Knezic, The National 2017: New Australian Art, Frieze, May 2017, https://freize.com/article/national-2017-new-australian-art.
- Tom Nicholson’s Historical Reckoning, Art Monthly, no. 303, November 2017, pp. 52-55
- Victoria Lynn, TarraWarra International 2017: All That is Solid, exh. cat. (Healesville, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2017).
2016
- Ryan Johnston, From Memory to Comparative Commemoration: Tom Nicholson’s Palestine Monument and the Great War Centenary, Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology, Melbourne University Publishing Ltd, 2016.
- Nicola Teffer, Tom Nicholson, MCA Collection Handbook, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2016, pp. 240-256.
2015
- Grazia Gunn, In Black and White: Tom Nicholson’s ‘Cartoon’s for Joseph Selleny’, Australian Book Review, July 2015. https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-arts/2651-in-black-and-white-tom-nicholson-s-cartoons-for-joseph-selleny.
- Helen Johnson and Justin Clemens, Porosity, Machine, Subtractions, Substitution: On the Formal Address to Politics in Works by Bright Fitzgerald, Rosie Isaac, Nicholas Mangan and Tom Nicholson. Un Magazine vol. 9, no. 1, 2015. https://unprojects.org.au/magazine/issues/issue-9-1/porosity-machine-subtraction-substitution/.
- John Mateer, Tom Nicholson: The Activation of the Artwork, Artlink vol. 35, no.1, 2015, pp. 54-57.
2014
- Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow, Concrete, exh. cat. (Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art, 2014).
- Rebecca Coates, Melbourne Then, Melbourne Now, and Melbourne’s Future, Broadsheet vol. 43, no.2, 2014, pp. 49-52.
- Samantha Littley, Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War, exh. cat. (Brisbane: The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2014).
2013
- Mark, Gomes and Eugenie Baulch, Melbourne Now, exh. cat. (Melbourne: The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2013).
- John Mateer, In Confidence - Reorientations in Recent Art, exh. cat. (Perth: Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2013).
2012
- Tony Birch, Tom Nicholson's shadow, Broadsheet, March 2012.
- Anneke Jaspers, Interview with Tom Nicholson, Das Superpaper, Adelaide Biennial issue, March 2012.
- Andrew Benjamin, With the line. Within the line. Notes on the work of Tom Nicholson, in Marking Time (exh. cat.), (Sydney: MCA, 2012).
- Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kantor, Parallel Collisions, exh. cat. (Adelaide: AGSA, 2012).
2011
- Shelley McSpedden, Inteview with Raafat Ishak and Tom Nicholson, Discipline, no. 1, Winter 2011, pp. 94-99.
- Sary Zananiri, Interview with Tom Nicholson, Art Territories.
2010
- Anselm Franke et al, Animism, exh. cat. (Antwerp: Sternberg Press, Extra City, and MUHKA, 2010).
- Mihnea Mircan, Tom Nicholson, in Natasha Conland (ed.), Last ride in a hot air balloon. 4th Auckland Triennial, exh. cat. (Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, 2010).
- Nicola Harvey, Camp Pell Lecture, Frieze online, 19 February 2010.
2009
- Blair French, Tom Nicholson: Following the event, Art & Australia, Vol. 47, No. 1, Spring 2009.
- Anthony Gardner, Which histories matter?, Third Text, Volume 23, Issue 5, September 2009, pp. 605 – 615.
- Reuben Keehan, Tom Nicholson, in Natasha Bullock (ed.), Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, exh. cat. (Melbourne: Asialink, 2009).
- Nicola Harvey, Word, Frieze online, 3 August 2009.
2008
- Chris Fite-Wassilak, Review of Lines towards another century, Frieze, Issue 118, October 2008.
- Chris Fite-Wassilak, Review of Lines towards another century , Art & Australia, December 2008.
- Mihnea Mircan, Since we last spoke about monuments, in exh. cat. Since we last spoke about monuments (The Hague: Stroom Den Haag, 2008).
- Max Delany, Essay on contemporary Melbourne art, as part of the Melbourne City Profile, Frieze, Issue 115, May 2008.
- Nicola Harvey, Essay on contemporary Melbourne art, as part of the Melbourne City Profile, Frieze, Issue 115, May 2008.
- Bridget Crone, Lines towards another century, in exh. cat., Andrew Byrne and Tom Nicholson Lines Towards Another Century (Bath: Media Art Bath, 2008).
2007
- Jarrod Rawlins, Tom Nicholson (Review of the solo exhibition After action for another library at Anna Schwartz Gallery, September 2006), Flash Art, Jan-Feb 2007, p. 114.
- Lorenzo Fusi and Naeem Mohaiemen (ed.), System Error: War is a force that gives us meaning, exh. cat., Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, and Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007.
- Victoria Lynn, Regarding Fear and Hope, exh. cat., Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2007.
- Robert Nelson, Regarding Fear and Hope, review, The Age, 25 July.
- Adam Gifford, After action for another library at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts and Pakuranga Library, New Zealand Herald, 18 October.
2006
- Dr Charles Merewether, Taking place: Acts of survival for a time to come, in Zones of Contact, the 15th Biennale of Sydney, (exh. cat.), Sydney, 2006.
- Dr Charles Merewether and Tom Nicholson, The practice of action, in After action for another library, the 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, 2006.
- John Mateer, The gap of the border: Tom Nicholson’s Banner marching project, Heat 11, pp. 171-188.
- Anthony Gardner, Re/thinking, Art & Australia, vol. 43, no. 3, p. 433.
- Justin Clemens, We’re all globile now, The Monthly, July 2006, pp. 56-58.
- Sunanda Creagh, Timor turns a new page, The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June 2006.
- Michael Desmond, Making solid contact, Australian Financial Review, 23 June 2006, p. 5.
- Shaun Ellis, Perfect profound, The Sydney Weekly, 14 June 2006, p. 32.
- Jacqueline Millner, Partaking of a wide world, RealTime, 72, April-May 2006, pp. 46-7.
- Benjamin Stark, Auflage der Sydney Biennale, Kunst, 21, pp. 16-21.
- Michael Desmond, Making contact, Art Asia Pacific, No. 49, Summer 2006, pp. 40-41.
- Christine Piper, Crossing the line, Follow, June 2006 pp. 134-135.
- Sebastian Smee, A world of difference, The Australian, 13 June 2006, p. 14.
- Sebastian Smee, Piece makers, Vogue, June 2006, pp. 64-65.
- Michael Janover, Learning to live with ghosts, in Ghosts of self and state (exh. cat.), Clayton: Monash University Museum of Art, 2006, pp. 39-41.
2005
- John Mateer, Berlin is an archaeological find, in Marco Marcon (ed.), From Space to Place (exh. Cat.), Perth: IASKA, 2005, p. 39.
- Marco Marcon, From Space to Place, in Marco Marcon (ed.), From Space to Place (exh. Cat.), Perth: IASKA, 2005, pp. 3-8.
- Bridget Crone, The ruined body?, in The body. The ruin (exh. cat.), Melbourne: The Ian Potter Museum of Art, 2005, pp. 8-22.
- A dialogue between Jan Svenungsson and Tom Nicholson, in course (exh. cat.), Melbourne: Ocular Lab, 2005.
- Ted Snell, Artists welcome a township’s embrace, The Australian, 27 April 2005.
- Daniel Palmer, 2004: Australian Culture Now, Art and Australia, volume. 42, no. 2, pp. 196-7.
2004
- Geraldine Barlow, New 04, in NEW04, exh. cat., ACCA: Melbourne, 2004, pp. 6-11.
- Ray Edgar, Seven days, in NEW04, exh. cat., ACCA: Melbourne, 2004, pp. 38-39.
- Brett Jones (ed.), Form and Formation: West Space 1993-2003, 3 Deep Publishing: Melbourne, 2004.
- Charles Green (ed.), 2004: Australian Culture Now, exh. cat.: National Gallery of Victoria: Melbourne, 2004.
- Peter Clarke, Politics as art, Sunday Programme, 3LO, 11 April 2004.
- Bianca Hester, Between Actions: Working through Tom Nicholson’s Practice from the Multiple Middle, Drain, no. 3.
- Megan Backhouse, New Map of the Human Art, The Age, 19 April 2004, Rvw pp. 6-7.
- Janet Howie, Project pushes boundaries, Melbourne Yarra Leader, 5 April 2004, p. 15.
- Robyn Phelan, Report on art action ‘Seven days’ by Tom Nicholson, North and West Melbourne News, June 2004, p. 10.
2003
- Blair French, Video Spell: Actions, exh. cat. Video Spells: Actions, Performance Space, Sydney, 2003.
- Charlotte Day, Feedback, in Feedback: Art, Social Consciousness, and Resistance, exh.cat. Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2003.
- After images (dialogue with Christian Capurro and M. Bullock), Meanjin, Winter 2003.
- Angus Trumble, Action/Reaction, in Melancholia (Documents after five actions, Berlin), exh. cat. Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2003.
- Robert Nelson, review of Feedback, The Age, 2 April 2003, Review p. 6.
- Anna Clabburn, Text and tablets follow the script, The Australian, 3-4 May 2003, p. 21.
2002
- Martin Kleesman, Die Bernauer Strasse ist eine Ruinenlandschaft, Berliner Zeitung, 9 November 2002.
2000
- Robert Nelson, Digital forms speak language of the screen, The Age, 28 July 2000, review p. 4.
- Charles Green, Your friends do not forget, in Critical Response, ex. cat. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 2000.
Selected Grants/Awards
- Australia Council New Work Grant, 2020;
- Australia Council New Work Grant, 2017;
- Australia Council New Work Grant, 2015;
- Creative Victoria Project Grant, 2015;
- Australian Print Workshop Commission, 2015;
- Artist-in-residence, Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, 2014;
- Australia Council New Work Grant 2013;
- Myer Creative Fellowship 2013-15;
- Artist-in-residency, Lenikus Collection, Vienna, 2012;
- Winner Paul Guest Drawing Prize, 2012;
- Finalist, Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, 2011;
- New work grant, Australia Council 2011;
- Lygon Street Public Art Commission, 2010;
- International Export and Touring Fund, Arts Victoria, 2009;
- Finalist, The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, 2008;
- New work grant, Australia Council 2008;
- Creative Fellow, State Library of Victoria, 2007;
- Finalist, New Social Commentaries, Warrnambool Art Gallery, 2006;
- Finalist, The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, 2005;
- Cultural activity grant, City of Melbourne, 2003;
- International Export and Touring Fund, Arts Victoria, 2002;
- Foundation for Young Australians, 2000;
- New Work grant, Australia Council, 2000.
Selected Collections
- The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
- Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.
- Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
- John McBride Collection.
Exhibitions
Off-site Exhibitions
- Jun 15 – Nov 24, 2024D Harding, Tom Nicholson, Megan Cope‘Soils, Van Abbemuseum’Van Abbemuseum
- Mar 26 – Nov 3, 2024Tom Nicholson‘Chimney in store (Towards a monument to Batman's Treaty)’ACCA; Batman Park, Naarm/Melbourne
- Jun 9 – Sep 27, 2020D Harding, Tom Nicholson‘Things Entangling’Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo