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
![Comparative monument (Shallal) Comparative monument (Shallal)](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/17-5_Nicholson_AGNSW_7.jpg?bossToken=5f31234d7b16c101795e1b7912c2c1d2178fbaa330bc9ee3c68df4d4158f4574)
![I was born in Indonesia I was born in Indonesia](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/17-3_Potter_Nicholson_5.jpg?bossToken=11aa6ee4e8e8403663c2b927abd1dc00d273290c1792933654be9fd0ae670264)
![Comparitive Monument (Palestine) Comparitive Monument (Palestine)](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/2012/Image-2.jpg?bossToken=fc1aba57d5c311b08c32e601c9d218e7a7f340508b995d906b4c1fce9b040c61)
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![Artist interview Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting (video) Artist interview Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting (video)](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/2019/Screen-Shot-2020-08-20-at-2.07.57-pm.png?bossToken=3208ecb86c518939c20997ae0767373ec87de50e2b58aa9735d2359edf81e186)
![Gorge photograph Gorge photograph](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/Nicholson-Gorge-Photograph-5.jpg?bossToken=2a9f2924a842cf380d437bb7cf7072eb0bec72c950fc67ed6c2543f610345c72)
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![Unfinished monument to Batman’s Treaty Unfinished monument to Batman’s Treaty](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/2011/2011_03_02_l.jpg?bossToken=ee327a7508668b1730d9c45a218c2565212a26dbd0335b9d95fd4277d7d5c789)
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![untitled (seven monuments); with Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin, Jonathan Jones untitled (seven monuments); with Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin, Jonathan Jones](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/19-4_TWMA_7.jpg?bossToken=bd4e725313ce407901c15e1aac5970ef0a3587fececfedb36acd0a37a571acc1)
![Installation view of 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny' Installation view of 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny'](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/2014/2014NIC_039.jpg?bossToken=292534777c09e046519fbbade744728935e3dbed4e87258fcf6c748e80c93245)
![Evening Shadows Evening Shadows](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/2012/WalkOff-poster1.jpg?bossToken=047dd3e8d1e55e1df937857076518514500c6a9b5c2ece5ea5acf57ed8b3e998)
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![Camp Pell Lecture (with Tony Birch) Camp Pell Lecture (with Tony Birch)](https://img.imageboss.me/milanigallery/cover:inside/600x600/quality:80/artworks/tom-nicholson/2008/12.-birch-nicholson-camp-pell-lecture-2-copy.jpg?bossToken=3ed8c63b951e303789dfe36ae6ff653f4e8b2e9b37bd465e266961ec0c59bf5f)
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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 – Jul 27, 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