Tom Nicholson

  • Tom Nicholson 'Untitled Wall Drawing' 2005–18. Realised with Lauren Burrow, Tristen Harwood, Warraba Weatherall, and Peter Kozak. Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • Tom Nicholson 'Untitled Wall Drawing' 2005–18. Realised with Lauren Burrow, Tristen Harwood, Warraba Weatherall, and Peter Kozak. Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • Tom Nicholson 'Untitled Wall Drawing' 2005–18. Realised with Lauren Burrow, Tristen Harwood, Warraba Weatherall, and Peter Kozak. Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • Tom Nicholson 'Untitled Wall Drawing' 2005–18. Realised with Lauren Burrow, Tristen Harwood, Warraba Weatherall, and Peter Kozak. Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • Tom Nicholson 'Gorge Photograph, 13 September 1939, 1, 2, and 3' 2018. Photo: Christian Capurro

  • 'Tom Nicholson: Drawings and Correspondence', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2018. Photography: Christian Capurro

  • 'Tom Nicholson: Drawings and Correspondence', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2018. Photography: Christian Capurro

  • Tom Nicholson 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny' 2014. Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • Tom Nicholson 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny' 2014. Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • 'Tom Nicholson: Drawings and Correspondence', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2018.

  • Tom Nicholson, 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny', 2014, Wall drawing created through pouncing with cheesecloth full of ground charcoal, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane. Photography: Christian Capurro

  • Tom Nicholson 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny' 2014, Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • Tom Nicholson 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny' 2014, Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • Tom Nicholson 'Cartoons for Joseph Selleny' 2014, Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • Tom Nicholson 'Lines that Could Be Scars' 2015. Photo: Christian Capurro.

  • Greg Lehman and Tom Nicholson 'Interview' 2015. Photo: Christian Capurro.

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Tom Nicholson

Drawings and Correspondence

24 March–02 June 201824 Mar–02 Jun 2018

#TomNicholson

Tom Nicholson’s exhibition surveys the central role drawing plays in his engagement with contemporary political realities, in Australia and beyond. The show presents works from 2005 to 2018, focusing on the histories and possibilities of drawing, and its relationship to writing. Here, the line is a tool for writing, drawing and redrawing borders, evoking little known histories and intersections, and expanding into the space of possibility through abstraction.

The show is accompanied by Nicholson’s first monograph, Lines towards Another. It is edited by Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes, and published by the Institute of Modern Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and Sternberg Press. It features contributions from Tony Birch, Bridget Crone, Jacqueline Doughty, Anthony Gardner, Anneke Jaspers, Ryan Johnston, John Mateer, Shelley McSpedden, Mihnea Mircan, Grace Samboh, and Ann Stephen.

Curated By
  • Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh
Artist Bio
Tom Nicholson

Tom Nicholson lives in Melbourne. His solo shows include I Was Born in Indonesia (Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, 2017) and Cartoons for Joseph Selleny (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014). His work was included in the 2018 Biennale of Sydney, The National: New Australian Art (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017), and the 2015 Jakarta Biennale. He is a lecturer at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne, and is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.