Nicholas Tossmann (he/him)

Nicholas Tossmann is a conceptual artist based on the Gold Coast, whose practice is grounded in curiosity, language, and the quiet contemplation of meaning. Working primarily with text, Tossmann is drawn to its flexibility — its ability to give shape to intangible thoughts and make the ineffable visible. His work often invites viewers to sit with ambiguity, encouraging reflection on how we construct personal and collective understanding.

Tossmann’s practice is deeply introspective and responsive. For him, making art is a process of giving form to existential thoughts and feelings — not necessarily to resolve them, but to engage with them in new and shared ways. His current investigations focus on the potential of text as a sculptural medium, with a particular interest in its spatial and emotional presence across both physical and digital environments.

Site-specificity plays a central role in his work. By engaging with architecture and spatial dynamics, Tossmann encourages audiences to encounter language not only as content, but as experience — a prompt to consider the self in relation to the absurd, the fleeting, and the unresolved.

In 2024, he is exploring new dimensions through Augmented Reality (AR), aiming to scale text beyond the page or plinth and into immersive, expanded environments. Through this program, he hopes to generate a new body of work that pushes the boundaries of his medium, while also developing practical skills in grant writing and project development.

He describes his current practice in three words: extrude text presence. And when not in the studio, you’ll find him either wandering through new exhibitions at HOTA, or at the beach — places where thought can drift freely.