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Tom O'Hern is a Hobart based artist whose practice spans murals, painting, animation and drawing. His work explores primitivism, masculinity and suburbia (scrawling penises on toilet walls). Tom completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours at the University of Tasmania in 2006 and was included in the 2011 Primavera at the MCA. He has shown widely in Australia and undertaken residencies in Hobart, France and China. Tom is represented by Bett Gallery, Hobart.
Tom O’Hern was the recipient of the 2012 Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency, Arts Tasmania Travelling Scholarship for a graduate of a Visual Arts program from the University of Tasmania. The residency took him to Paris where he executed a body of work exploring themes of the savage, domestication, urban sprawl and environmental degradation. O’Hern’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Flux Factory, New York and the Adelaide Fringe Festival.