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b. 1950 - d. 2021

Tom Samek (born 11 March 1950)[1] is a Czech artist living and working in Australia. [2] He is a painter, stage designer and printmaker.[1]

Tom Samek was born in Prague, Czech Republic.[1] He moved to Germany and Switzerland in 1969, then Austria the following year and Australia in 1971.[2] In 1972 he studied printmaking with Eric Smodic in Austria for a year, then returned to Australia the following year.[2] He settled in Tasmania.

In 1997, he painted a mural in the foyer of the School of Engineering at the University of Tasmania.[4]

Samek's largest, and perhaps finest,[5] work is Flawed History of Tasmanian Wine, a floor mural in a gallery above the tasting room of the Meadowbank Estate winery and restaurant in Tasmania.[5] The floor is painted, carved and etched in Samek's "unique style",[5] and integrated with his friend Graeme Phillips' comic and nonsense poetry.[5] The work was finished in December 2005, half of the $160,000 cost being met by the Federal Government.[5]

In 2009, he returned to the University of Tasmania School of Englineering to create a mosaic mural, featuring names of notable engineers, and staff and students. It was unveiled during the 50th anniversary celebration of the school.[6]

Samek makes prints, including etchings, which "revel in the indulgences of food and drink."[7] He adopts a whimsical view of Australian customs and language, at one time concentrating on faces and wine glasses, and in 2006 focusing on parrots as subject matter.[8]

He lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania.[9]