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Tom Nicholson (b. 1973 Melbourne, Australia) lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He is a member of Ocular Lab, and is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.
Selected solo exhibitions
2007
After action for another library, 15 September-10 February 2008, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, and Pakuranga Library, Auckland, New Zealand;
Documents from a banner marching project, 2-11 March, Ocular Lab Inc., Melbourne;
2006
Traces towards four Coranderrk drawings in a Berlin store-room, Plattform, Berlin, 26-31 October;
After action for another library, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 1-30 September;
Flag Time: Marat at his last breath, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, January;
2004
22.06.1911/30.10.2004: Documents after Marching Season, IASKA (The Aurora Project), Kellerberrin, 6 November;
2003
After action for another library, Humboldt University, Berlin, 28 August-3 October;
Stills from an archive into five actions, Australia Centre, Berlin, 3-30 September;
Melancholia (Documents after five actions, Berlin), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 7 February-1 March;
Fragments from an archive into five actions, West Space, Melbourne, 21 February - 8 March;
Anarchist Salon (with David Corbet), Ocular Lab, Melbourne,1 April;
2002
Documents after five actions, Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin, 8-22 November;
Fragments from an archive into five actions, studio exhibition, Berlin,16-23 November;
2001
After action against book burning (Two fragments for a disused Stasi office), studio exhibition, Berlin,13-19 September;
2000
After Dili Action, West Space, Melbourne, 5-15 April;
1999
Collaborative Project: A Syntax into Six Landings, with John Abbate, Public Office, Melbourne, April.
<Selected group exhibitions
2007
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;
Regarding Fear and Hope, curated by Victoria Lynn, also including Yael Bartana, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Willie Doherty, David Griggs, Lucía Madriz, R E A, Lázaro A Saavedra González, Sriwhana Spong, and Lynette Wallworth, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, and the Monash Faculty Gallery, Caulfield, Melbourne, 5 July-28 July (Caulfield), 4 July-25 August (Clayton);
(action with Raafat Ishak) Proposition for an action with banners and a black cube hot air balloon, 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;
Trans versa: conversando en el sur, curated by Danae Mossman and Zara Stanhope, Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, 4 October-4 November, as part of the South Project;
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;
(with Andrew Byrne) Endgame: Late-capitalist Realism, 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
(with Raafat Ishak) 2004: Australian Culture Now, 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;
(in collaboration with Louisa Bufardeci)The Stolen Generations Memorial Competition, 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 essays/publications on Tom Nicholson's work
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;
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 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, The University of Melbourne, 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, vol. 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, “Critical Mass and Tom Nicholson's Banner Marches”, Natural Selection, No. 2, Winter 2004;
Megan Backhouse, “New Map of the Human Art”, The Age, 19 April 2004, Review 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 writings by Tom Nicholson:
2007
"Walks and transmissions", Artlink, special South issue, June 2007;
"Blackboards, sounding boards", Beuys Steiner, exh cat., National Gallery of Victoria: Melbourne, 2007;
2006
“Raafat Ishak”, in Linda Michael (ed.), 21st Century Modern, exh. Cat., Art Gallery of South Australia: Adelaide, 2006;
2005
“Remembering New Eternal Cities: Ricky Swallow’s Field Recording (Highland Park Hydra)”, in This Time Another Year, exh. cat. Australian Pavillion, Venice Biennale: Venice, 2005;
“Upstairs, a Bike, a Horse”, in Charlotte Day (ed.), A short ride in a fast machine, Black Ink Press: Melbourne, 2005.
2004
“West Space, east space, civic space”, in Brett Jones (ed.), Form and Formation: West Space 1993-2003, 3 Deep Publishing: Melbourne, 2004, pp. 116-123;
2002
”Response”, in Laylah Ali, exh. cat.: Indianapolis Museum of Art: Indianapolis, 2002;
“Watching this space”, Meanjin, August 2002;
”Haus Koebberling”, in Berliner Kunst, vol. 1, no. 9, p. 24;
“Writing about cutting”, in Einschnitte/Incisions, ex. cat., Wilhelm Fabry Museum, Hilden, Germany, April 2002;
2000
“Cityscape Melbourne”, Flash Art, vol. 33, no. 212, May-June 2000, p. 71;
“22 Paragraphs after Action/Recollection”, in Action/Recollection: Here the Body Is, ex. cat. West Space, 2000;
“Review of Brent Harris: Swamp”, Art/Text, 68, February-April 2000, p. 83;
1999
“Melbourne International Biennial”, Art and Australia, December 1999, pp. 201-3;
“Ricky Swallow”, in Contempora5, ex. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, September 1999;
“Archives After the Seventies and After”, Artlink, vol. 19. no. 1, Aut.1999, pp. 63-65;
1998
“It’s Time: Everyday Language in the Biennale of Sydney”, in Charles Green and Susan Best (eds.), In the Everyday: Critical and Theoretical Speculations on the 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney: Artspace Visual Arts Centre Ltd., 1998, unpaginated.
1997
“Leagues Under the Sea: Ricky Swallow”, Like, Art Magazine, 4, Summer/Autumn 1997/98, pp. 15-19.
<Selected papers and public events
2007
“Actions towards the image”, as part of the off-site projects for Christian Capurro, Another Mis-spent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, Pensa con i sensi - Senti con la mente. L'arte al presente / Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Biennale of Venice, 2007;
"Actions and co-ordinations", as part of Uncertain Places, 15-16 September, conference at Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand;
"Transcriptions: Past tense, future tense", as part of the Transcription Symposium, 6 October, run by the Drawing Studio, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne;
"Drawings, lectures, posters", as part of the Beuys Steiner Symposium, 27 October, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
2006
“The co-ordinated action”, Biennale of Sydney August Symposium, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales;
“Actions, residues, memory”, Crossing Horizons: Context and Community in the South, Santiago Gathering, The South Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, October;
2004
”Actions and traces: Christian Capurro’s Another mis-spent portrait of Etienne de Silhouette as a drawing”, Worksense, Melbourne, March 2004;
2000
“Political engagement with Asia through art”, delivered at the Useby Forum, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 7 October 2000';
”Drawing and political action”, delivered at symposium Drawing: The Extended Field, 19 August 2000, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne;
1997
“Dead letters: photography and drawing in contemporary art”, public lecture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1997.
<Selected Grants/Awards
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;
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