Education
2022 Doctor of Philosophy, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
2008 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
Employment Details
2022-present Sessional Academic at the University of Sydney.
Solo Exhibitions and Graduation Exhibitions
2024 ‘In the Flat Field’, collaboration with Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.
2023 ‘Ad/dressing the Wound’, Ellipsis gallery, Woolloomooloo.
2022 ‘Sacrificial Bodies’, PhD examination exhibition, SCA Project Space, Camperdown.
2012 ‘Alchemical Abstraction’, SNO, Marrickville.
2010 ‘Critical Tension’, ESP Gallery, Marrickville.
2008 Seminal Fluids, collaboration with Sach Catts, First Draft, Surry Hills.
2008 ‘Notes from the Fall’, Silver Spoon Gallery, Balmain.
Group Exhibitions and Live Performances (2022 – present)
2025 Our Glorious Dead, ‘Aerie’, Wentworth Falls School of Arts, Wentworth Falls.
2024 The Lover, Creative Trails Midjuburi 2024, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville.
2024 Anamnesis Arboretum, Canberra Art Biennial, National Arboretum Canberra.
2024 Emergency Blankets, ‘Remedy’, Pari.
2024 From the Deep Waters of Sleep and Emergency Blankets (Applique), ‘Two Feet Forward’, Ellipsis, Woolloomooloo.
2023 Die Wunde, Creative Trails Midjuburi 2023, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville.
2023 Freud’s Ghost and Shivah, ‘Ad/dressing the Wound’, Ellipsis Gallery, Woolloomooloo.
2023 From the Deep Waters of Sleep, ‘Spirit Wave’, Art Space on the Concourse, Chatswood.
2023 Pietà, ‘Spirit Wave’, Art Space on the Concourse, Chatswood.
2023 Shadow, ‘Together or otherwise a(part)’, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt,.
2023 Night Soil, ‘Earth’, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt.
2022 Shivah, ‘New Contemporaries’, SCA Gallery, Camperdown.
2022 Depression Quilt, ‘Seed Stitch Contemporary Textiles Award’, Australian Design Centre and Tamworth Regional Gallery.
2022 Shivah, Creative Trails Midjuburi, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville.
2022 Shivah, ‘LIVE DREAMS: THRESHOLD’, Carriageworks, Eveleigh.
2022 Emergency Blankets, ‘Carnivale Catastrophe’, Cementa22, Kandos.
2022 Chashmal, ‘Mirrors Unstill of the Eternal Change’, Backspace, Sydney.
2022 Ruach Redux, ‘per.doc’, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt.
Grants, Awards and Prizes
2023 Small Project Grant (Quick Response), Create NSW.
2023 Full fee subsidy to attend ‘Creative Approaches to Working with Trauma and Mental Health’, Australia Council for the Arts.
2022 Finalist Seed Stitch Contemporary Art Award, Australian Design Centre.
2021 Small Project Grant (Quick Response), Create NSW.
2018/2019 Arts and Culture Grant, Inner West Council.
2017/2018 Arts and Culture Grant, Inner West Council.
Residencies
2023/2024 Kan/Can Laboratory (organised by Canberra Art Biennale and Cementa).
2023 Rex Cramphorn Studio Residency, the University of Sydney.
2022/2023 CASE Incubator, led by the CAD Factory.
2022 Cloudbough Art Residency, Kandos.
2018 The Kiosk 3×6 Projects, Katoomba Falls Kiosk, Katoomba.
2016 Intercessions Lab (led by Julie Vulcan and Alan Schacher), BigCi, Bilpin.
2016 Residential Performance Lab (led by Alan Schacher), BigCi, Bilpin.
Curatorial Projects
2018 ‘The Open Body’, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville.
2017 ‘Proximity’, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville.
2011 ‘EX VOTO: Joseph Beuys’, INDEX, St Peters.
2010 ‘Living Space’, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown.
Bibliography
2025 Thomas G. Isaacs, “The Body and Existence.” Visceras, Corpo e Existencia – Leo Stockinger (Rio Grande do Sul: Galeria Stockinger and Projeto Portas Abertas, 2025). Exhibition catalogue.
2024 Thomas G Isaacs, “Working Carefully: Trauma-informed Arts Practices”. NAVA Artist Guide, November 20, 2024.
2024 Lisa Pang, “For the love of painting: a world of romance in a flat square”. SNO Review, September 23, 2024.
2024 João Seguro, “Geometry, Kinship and Juxtaposition”. In the Flat Field. Exhibition catalogue.
2023 Cinzia Cremona, “Ad/dressing the Wound”. Ad/dressing the Wound. Exhibition catalogue.
2022 Anastasia Murney, “Cementa22”. Memo, May 22, 2022.
2022 Thomas G Isaacs, PhD Thesis, “Sacrificial Bodies: Body Art, Ritual and the Problem of Alienation”.
2019 Fiona Davies, PhD Thesis, “Cast a cold eye on life, on death: the Remake: Medicalised Death in ICU”, 40-42.
2011 Mark Shorter, PhD Thesis, “Variety theatre, performance art and the carnivalesque”, 7, 8, 96-104.
2010 David and Thomas G Isaacs, “Is Child Nudity in Art Ever Pornographic?: Child Nudity in Art.” Journal of paediatrics and child health 46, no. 7-8 (2010): 369–371.
Conference Papers
2024 ‘Controlling chaos: psychoanalysis, sublimation and the “guarantee of sanity”‘,
Louise Bourgeois: Tides and Currents, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.
2023 ‘Virtuous Reverberations’, Performance, Health and Creative Care working group, 2023 ADSA Conference: Archives, Artists & Absences, Adelaide.
2023 ‘Seminaire I: Acting Out’, Alana Bowden Memorial Seminar, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney
2019 ‘Suelo Común (Common Ground): The death drive in the body art of Regina José Galindo’, Bodies of Work 2019, Sydney.
2017 ‘The Overflowing Body: Transgression in Body Art’, Performance Studies International conference, Hamburg.
2016 ‘Indeterminate Identities: Body Art, Ritual and the Subject’, The Fifth Euroacademia International conference, Rome.
Workshops
2025 Common Threads: Past to Future, City of Ryde.
2024 Planning Creatively for your Death with Victoria Spence, Sydney Festival of Death and Dying.
2024 Site-specific Performance, National Art School.
2024 Multi-dimensional artmaking, ‘In the Flat Field’ (2024), Chrissie Cotter gallery.
2023 Performance Workshop, Rex Cramphorn Studio.
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