Tom Christophersen
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A Portrait of Deven Green
Based on photography by Tobias Nichols

Once upon a time I tweeted Deven Green... And she tweeted back.

Comedienne and LGBTQI ally/superhero Deven Green first popped into my consciousness after I saw her judge a comedy panel on RuPaul's Drag Race. After having struck up an online friendship, Deven let me to draw her portrait. This is the largest piece and most detailed work I have ever completed. I wanted the strength of this piece to symbolise the strength that Deven gave me, by acknowledging my work and inspiring me to achieve things I never thought were possible for me artistically. My ode to Deven (and Klimt) - this piece took 6 months and a large portion of myself, which I was happy to give. Deven calls this piece her 'real life Dorienne Gray'.

Featured in the 2017 Semi Permanent Book
Featured Finalist of the 2017 Contemporary Art Prize.
Featured Finalist of the inaugural Australian Queer Art Prize

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Watercolour paint, watercolour pencil, white acrylic and gold leaf on Archer's watercolour paper.

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People & Portrait Art
#klimt, # Gold Leaf, # gold, # portrait, # woman, # model, # pattern, # drawing, # painting, # mourning, # high fashion, # fashion, # black, # headscarf, # shawl, # deven, # Green, # deven green

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A portrait of a moustachioed, androgynous figure’s disembodied head on a black background. The figure wears elaborate drag makeup which features green skin and white swirling eyeliner. The figure wears an EarPod and has two gold sleepers in their ear.A blue-hued portrait of actor Patricia Arquette as Alice Wakefield from Lynch’s ‘LOST HIGHWAY’. A plume of smoke curls from the figures’ disembodied head which appears on a black background. The work is float mounted on blue Chinese silk and framed in a gold timber frame featuring a decorative leaf motif.A portrait of a bust of Leigh Bowery, who sports a painted face with huge red lips, orange cheeks and highlights and pink eye shadows. Blue candle wax drips down the figures bald head creating the illusion of bizarre looking hair.The artist Michael Simms stands in front of a creased fabric background with a thick black cable spilling out of his mouth. The cable appears to be connected to something out of frame. Halfway down the piece the drawing appears to fragment into a digital glitch, mirroring that of a scanned image which has been removed half way through scanning.
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