Thom Buchanan is a multidisciplinary artist from Adelaide, Australia. Thom’s practice sweeps across drawing, painting, performance, video, installation and monumental public works to interrogate where architecture, time and the body collide. His trademark city-scapes layer charcoal, acrylic and oil mark-making into rectilinear grids, fractal vanishing points and shifting horizons that hover between utopian possibility and dystopian unease. By exposing the physiological and psychological weight of built environments, Buchanan invites viewers to step inside elastic worlds where streets stretch, memories echo and futures feel both imminent and unstable.
A UniSA Visual Arts (Hons) graduate, Buchanan has live-painted a 28-metre backdrop beside Australian Dance Theatre’s Worldhood, created the touring set for Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to Be True, and illuminated stages for Adelaide Festival, Vivid Sydney and the Edinburgh Fringe. He has exhibited in China, Hong Kong, New York, and New Zealand, been a Glover Art Prize finalist and won the Hadley Art Prize People’s Choice, and in 2025 became the inaugural Brown Falconer Architects Artist-in-Resident. His work now resides in private and corporate collections worldwide.
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Performance works by acclaimed and award-winning visual artist Thom Buchanan including:
Thom is admired extensively locally, nationally and internationally and his work has received standing ovations and worldwide recognition. He can create a bespoke artwork to any scale, and deliver imagination and intrigue to any occasion, campaign, crowd stopper, or event.