Tom Nicholson public artwork Chimney in Store (Towards a Monumen to Batman's Treaty) will be open to public from Sat 26 March 2022. Commissioned by the City of Melbourne in collaboration with ACCA, the work can be found at Batman Park, Northcote, Melbourne.
Khadim Ali, Megan Cope, Bonita Ely, Tom Nicholson, and Raquel Ormella have been included in the MCA Collection: Perspectives on Place exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. The exhibition runs until 4 September 2022. Find out more here.
Dale Harding and Tom Nicholson have been included in Things Entangling, an exhibition held in collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and Kadist. The exhibition will be on display when the museum reopens after March 31 and will be on display until 14 June 2020. More information can be found here.
Vernon Ah Kee, Khadim Ali, Richard Bell, Dale Harding, Tom Nicholson, Khaled Sabsabi and Judy Watson have been included in Australia. Antipodean Stories at Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea Milano. The exhibition is on display until 9 February 2020. More information available here.
Judy Watson and Tom Nicholson will appear alongside Jon Cattapan at a symposium at Mueller Hall at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne on 25 - 26 October, in association with Cattapan's exhibition of works in collaboration with Lyndell Brown and Charles Green. Find out more here.
Richard Bell and Tom Nicholson feature in Discipline issue no. 5. Richard Bell's Venice Biennale project is discussed in two articles, also published is his original shortlisted proposal for the Australian Pavilion. Tom Nicholson's work Lines that could be scars is discussed in an article. More on Discipline here.
Tom Nicholson's exhibition Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, has been reviewed by Ian McLean in Artlink. Read the article here.
untitled (seven monuments), an art project by Tom Nicholson, Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin and Jonathan Jones that was comissioned by the TarraWarra Museum of Art, will be launced at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station in Healesville, Victoria. The exhibition opens on Sunday 14 April.
Tom Nicholson's work will be presented in a solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting. The exhibition runs from April 6 - June 19, 2019. Find out more here.
Tom Nicholson's project I was born in Indonesia has been featured in a review of the 2018 Gwangju Biennale by HG Masters in ArtAsiaPacific. The article has been published in the latest (111th) print issue of the magazine.
Raquel Ormella and Tom Nicholson have been included in the exhibition State of the Union at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. The exhibition explores the relationship of artists to political engagement through a focus on the labour movement and trade unions, it runs 24 July to 28 Oct 2018. More information can be found here.
Prints by Vernon Ah Kee and Tom Nicholson made at Big Fag Press are included in a section of 'Lucas Ihlein: Diagrammatic' at Deakin University Art Gallery. This exhibition surveys Ihlein's printmaking activities focussing on artist-led and collaborative contexts including Squatspace, Big Fag Press and Teaching & Learning Cinema.
Tom Nicholson's solo exhibition "Drawings and Correspondence" at the Institue of Modern Art has been reviewed by Tim Walsh in the Art Asia Pacific magazine. Read the review here.
Tom Nicholson will be included in the 12th Gwangju Biennale under the curatorship of Gridthiya Gaweewong. The biennale employs multiple curators and will explore the themes of borders, civilisations, and the city of Gwangju itself. It runs from September 7 - November 11, 2018.
Works by Richard Bell, Bonita Ely, Gordon Hookey and Tom Nicholson have been included in the fifth edition of Frontier Imaginaries 'Trade Markings' at the Vanabbe Museum, Eindhoven. The exhibition has been curated by Vivian Ziherl in collaboration with Charles Esche and Annie Fletcher. The exhibition runs 7 April - 1 June 2018. More information can be found here.
Tom Nicholson and Khaled Sabsabi will be in the 21st Biennale of Sydney, curated by Mami Kataoka. Nicholson will present work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Sabsabi will present work at Cockatoo Island. The Biennale runs 16 March to 11 June 2018. More information can be found here.
Tom Nicholson's work with Grace Samboh, I Was Born in Indonesia (2016) has been included in a survey of art within and connected to Indonesia: Power and Other Things: Indonesian & Art (1835-now) at the Europalia Arts Festival in Brussels. The exhibition explores the recent and often turbulent history of Indonesia, seen through the works of 21 Indonesian and Western artists. More information
The work of Tom Nicholson will appear in the 2017 Tarrawarra International exhibition, titled All That is Solid... at the Tarrawarra Museum of Art. The Australian and international artists in this exhibition depict precarious histories, and their art offers imaginative responses.The exhibition opens on Saturday 2 September and runs until Sunday 12 November 2017.
For more than one hundred years, artists have drawn inspiration from the early twentieth-century avant-garde movement Constructivism. Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism & Australian Art at the Heide Museum of Modern Art is an extensive survey of over seventy artists and explores how Australian artists have responded to this ground breaking modernist movement and its enduring call upon their imaginations from the 1930s to the present day. The exhibition ru
A new exhibition marking the centenary of one of Australia’s largest industrial conflicts, 1917: The Great Strike is a collaboration between Carriageworks and City of Sydney, displaying historical objects alongside commissioned artworks by Raquel Ormella, Tom Nicholson, Will French, Franck Gohier and Sarah Contos. The exhibition opens on the Saturday July 15 and runs until Sunday 27 August.
On Saturday 20 May, 1- 2pm, Tom Nicholson discusses his latest exhibition "I was born in Indonesia", which shares the lived experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia through interviews and dioramas of their memories. Free, all welcome.
"I was born in Indonesia" presents a new video work by Tom Nicholson and is part of the artist's ongoing investigation into monuments, memorials and other collective forms. The exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art runs until Sunday 9 July. Read more
'The National' 2017 has launched its website dedicated to its upcoming triennial exhibition, profiling the artists featured including Khadim Ali, Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Dale Harding, Gordon Hookey, Tom Nicholson, Raquel Ormella, Khaled Sabsabi, and Jemima Wyman. The site also includes essays by the exhibition curators providing an introduction to the exhibition concept.
In 2017 the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and Museum of Contemporary Art will present The National: New Australian Art. The National will showcase contemporary Australian art and includes new work by Khadim Ali, Gordon Bennett, Richard Bell, Dale Harding, Gordon Hookey, Tom Nicholson, Raquel Ormella, Khaled Sabsabi and Jemima Wyman. The National opens 30 March 2017.
The work of Tom Nicholson features as part of a group exhibition entitled 'Antipodes', collaboratively organised between University of Cambridge Museums and the Australian Print Workshop, and hosted at the Museum of Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Exploring the interplay of natural history, empire, art and anthropology, Nicholson worked in the print studio at APW in collaboration with APW Printers to produce a new body of work in the print medium.
Tom Nicholson joins Ian Townsend, Elaine Acworth and Daniel Evans on a panel discussion entitled 'Expressions of memory: Creative responses to commemoration' as part of the 'Q ANZAC 100' program at the State Library of Queensland, Brisbane. The panel will begin at 3:30pm in the SLQ Auditorium 1, Level 2. Read more.
Bontia Ely, Gordon Hookey and Tom Nicholson feature as part of the exhibition Frontier Imaginaries, curated by Vivian Ziherl. Frontier Imaginaries will be showcased in two parts across two sites: 'No Longer at Ease; at the Institute of Modern Art and 'The Life of Lines' at QUT Art Museum. Opening events begin Saturday 14 May 3.30pm at QUT Art Museum and conclude 8pm at the IMA. For further information click here.
'Tom Nicholson: Lines that could be scars' opens 2-4 Saturday 2 April and runs until 30 April 2016. The exhibition will showcase a series of new print works in response to collections of rarely seen early prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs held at the National History Museum and the British Museum. Read more.
Tom Nicholson's work Comparative monument (Palestine) will be on display at Latrobe Regional Gallery from 23 January until 20 March 2016. 'Now is the Hour: Recent Acquisitions' showcases new works by contemporary artists acquired by the gallery since 2014. For further information please click here.
Tom Nicholson and Richard Bell will represent Australia at the 16th Jakarta Biennale, running from 14 November 2015 until 17 January 2016. Curated by Charles Esche the theme of the exhibition is 'Neither Back Nor Forward: Acting in the Present' and will present work by over seventy international artists exploring the economic, social, and emoitional realities of contempoary society. Read more.
Tom Nicholson's work Comparative Monument (Palestine) 2012 is currently on display at Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center / Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, Istanbul, Turkey. The work features as part of the touring MUMA exhibition 'Concrete' curated by Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow and will run until 26 Setpember 2015. Read more.
The work of Tom Nicholson features as part of the upcoming exhibition 'Breathcrystal' at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin from 24 April to 30 May. The exhbition developed from an original research project inspired by prehistoric Australian paintings and is concered with ideas of contamination, cross-bred categories and hybrid modes of sense-making.
The work of Tom Nicholson features in a group exhibition entitled 'PP/VT (PERFORMANCE PRESENCE/VIDEO TIME)' at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. The exhibition and performance program runs until 16 May. Read more.
Tom Nicholson's Comparative monument (Ma'man Allah) is presented as part of the second Qalandiya International from 22 October to 15 November 2014. Exhibited within the Khalidi Library, Jerusalem, the project is a continuation of Nicholson's recent solo exhibition at Milani Gallery in September 2014.
Tom Nicholson presents selected work from his recent exhibition 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny' at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Exhibited as part of 'Allegory of the Cave Painting' at Extra City Kuntshal in Antwerp, this group exhibition takes thematic inspiration from a 2010 research trip by the University of Queensland of the prehistoric Bradshaw (gwion-gwion) paintings in the North Western Australia. The exhibition runs until 7 December 2014.
Tom Nicholson presents Printed pages/Bearing images 1998-2008 as part of the Jasmin Stephens curated group exhibition 'far and wide: Narrative into Idea' at the UTS Gallery, Sydney. The exhibition runs from 9 September to 10 October 2014. A curator's talk on Saturday 13 September 2-3pm will expand on the themes of the exhibition. Read more.
Indefinite substitution is a public art project by Tom Nicholson, realised with the assistance of the Geelong Gallery and commissioned by the National Exhibition Touring Support (NETS) Victoria for The Cinemas Project curated by Bridget Crone.
Tom Nicholson is currently exhibiting Comparative Monument (Palestine) 2012 in the exhibition 'Concrete' at MUMA. The exhibition is curated by Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow and explores monuments and materiality. More information can be found here:
Tom Nicholson presents a new series of charcoal drawings from 22 May to 10 August 2014 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny' presents the set of new, large-scale drawings alongside selected texts and letters, and an accompanying artist book. Read more.
Opening at the Beirut Art Center on 1 April, Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks is part of the seventh edition of Meeting Points, a multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival focusing on contextualized presentation of art from the Arab World. Tom Nicholson is exhibiting alongside a diverse range of artists. The exhibition is curated by curated by What, How & for Whom/WHW, a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb and Berlin. Read more.
Tom Nicholson is currently exhibiting at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre as part of Nahrain, a group exhibition presenting audiences with various artistic reflections and interpretations relating to a specific region of present day Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) and the region’s history, geography, environment and cultural referencing. Read more
Tom Nicholson is included in 'Meeting Points (Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks)', a festival and series of exhibitions at M HKA in Antwerp running 25 October 2013 - 16 February 2014.
Tom Nicholson is included in Future Memorial: Jonathan Jones, Tom Nicholson and Aunty Joy Wandin Murphy at Tarrawarra Museum of Art from 19 October 2013 - 9 February 2014.
Tom Nicholson is a part of the 20th edition of the Sélestat Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Marc Bembekoff and Julien Fronsacq. The biennial will unfold across different sites of the city of Sélestat, France, and takes place 21 September to 27 October, 2013.
Tom Nicholson's work is considered the catalyst of the upcoming exhibition Palestine at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia. The exhibition encompasses video and installation that posits allegorical echoes between the collapse and the breakdown of political negotiations across a Middle East that once dreamed of uniting under the banner of Pan-Arabism with alternative readings of a current ongoing regional political conflict.
Palestine, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
A pop up exhibition will open on Thursday 6th December from 6 - 8pm. Propositions will span over two warehouse spaces and will run from 6 - 11 December. The address is 78 Logan Rd Woolloongabba (100m down the road from Milani Gallery).
Part One: Eugene Carchesio, Ross Manning and Sandra Selig.
Part Two: Vernon Ah Kee, Khadim Ali, Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Ian Burn, Gordon Hookey, Peter Kennedy, Tom Nicholson, Raquel Ormella, Stuart Ringholt, Madonna Staunton, Judy Watson.
A number of artists are featured in Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art at the National Gallery of Victoria. The exhibition runs 28 September 2012 - 25 February 2013.
The accompanying catalogue: 101 Contemporary Australian Artists features the work of Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Vivienne Binns, Eugene Carchesio, Jon Cattapan, Aleks Danko, Bonita Ely, Tim Johnson, Peter Kennedy, Tom Nicholson, Rosslynd Piggott, and Gareth Sansom.
Tom Nicholson's work Comparitive Monument (Palestine) is featured in the inaugural Qalandiya International, a biennial event that takes place across Palestinian cities, towns and villages. Focusing on exhibiting contemporary Palestinian and international art, it highlights valuable architectural sites, and includes talks, walks and performances. 1 November until 15 November 2012. Please find the link below: