Nigel Thomson (1945–1999) was an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize twice.
He studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and later taught artistic composition at that institution.
[1] Thomson's painting of Patrick White's long-term partner, Manoly Lascaris was rejected from the 1995 Archibald and hung in the Salon des Refusés.
He won the Sulman Prize in 1983 with Marat, The Unsophisticated will be Shocked by the Depiction of your Death: or, the Artist Answers His Critics.
He jointly won the Sulman Prize in 1986 along with Wendy Sharpe, for The State Institution.