Interfacing
Image: Tom Christophersen, Super Like, 2018.
Tom Christophersen and Michael Simms are two of Australia’s most exciting and talented queer, figurative artists. Interfacing is their first collaborative exhibition, featuring a body of new works that articulate the entanglement of technology and the human experience, bearing playful witness to the ongoing digital reformation of our basic social actions.
Tom Christophersen is an actor, artist and general arts atrocity (his own words). Hailing from Adelaide, Tom grew up performing in Fringe Festivals from a young age. Tom completed his Visual Arts degree, specialising in painting, in 2008 at the South Australian School of Art (SASA).
Tom has exhibited across the country and has created bespoke commissions for Lady GaGa, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and various Australian based fashion and art houses. Tom is inspired by Twin Peaks, dark-streaks and beautiful things which are bad for your health.
Michael Simms is a multi-award winning artist based in Sydney. Born in Adelaide, he completed degrees in psychology and film at Flinders University before winning a scholarship to study art at the Julian Ashton Art School. Since then, Michael has brought together his interest in classical art and contemporary human behaviour to reveal hidden truths about his subjects.
This exhibition features some of the artists most ambitious drawings, timely, resonant and provocative paintings to date.
This is one not to be missed!
Until Oct 6. Stanley Street Gallery, 1/52-54 Stanley St, Darlinghurst. Info: www.stanleystreetgallery.com.au
