Tom Samek b. 1950 Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czechoslovakia

  • Artist (Printmaker), (Painter)
Mural painter and printmaker. Mostly exhibited in Tasmania.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Tom Samek
Birth date
1950
Birth place
Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • Tasmania
Active Period
  • c.1973- c.2006
Languages
  • English
Training
  • 1973 Bregenz, Austria
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

painter and printmaker, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia; he studied at Bregenz with Eric Smodics in 1973. Does mural and figure work, largely exhibited in Tasmania.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Eric Smodics
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
None
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Tasmania
Citations:
  • Germaine, Max, (1979), Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Lansdowne Editions)
  • McCulloch, Alan, (1984), Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (Place: Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition))
  • Backhouse, Sue, (1988), Tasmanian artists of the twentieth century : painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers 1900-1985, (Place: Hobart, Tas : Pandani Press)