About
Tom Isaacs (b. 1985, Oxford, UK) is a Sydney-based performance artist, sculptor and curator. In 2008, he completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. He returned to SCA in 2015, enrolling in a PhD researching the connection between ritual and body art.
Isaacs’ practice draws from psychoanalytic theory, existential philosophy, religious and ritual practices, and art history (particularly the history of performance art) to explore themes of mental illness, mortality, and the human condition. His PhD research involves an investigation of the relationship between ritual, psychoanalysis, and body art, and how these different streams of thought address the problem of alienation.
Tom Isaacs (b. 1985, Oxford, UK) is a Sydney-based performance artist, sculptor and curator. In 2008, he completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. He returned to SCA in 2015, enrolling in a PhD researching the connection between ritual and body art.
Isaacs’ practice draws from psychoanalytic theory, existential philosophy, religious and ritual practices, and art history (particularly the history of performance art) to explore themes of mental illness, mortality, and the human condition. His PhD research involves an investigation of the relationship between ritual, psychoanalysis, and body art, and how these different streams of thought address the problem of alienation.
15 September 2008