Tom works with archival material and the visual languages of politics, often using public actions and focusing on the relationship between actions and their traces. Nicholson engages with aspects of Australia’s early colonial history through combinations of drawings, monumental forms, and posters to articulate these histories in relation to the present. He has held solo and participated in group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Jakarta Biennial (2015); Fractures: Jerusalem Show VII, part of the Qalandiya International (2014); Allegory of the Cave Painting at Extra City, Antwerp (2014); Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks: Meeting Points 7, Vienna, the Beirut Art Centre, and M HKA in Antwerp (2013–14); Cartoons for Joseph Selleny, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Sydney (2014). Nicholson lives and works in Melbourne, where he is a lecturer in drawing in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University.