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DATE OF BIRTH 1950
Czech Republic
QUALIFICATIONS
1997-00 Doctor of Philosophy (Visual Art), University of
Tasmania
1995-96 Master of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania
1992-94 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (Furniture
Design)
University of Tasmania
1989-90 Associate Diploma of Applied Art (Wood Design)
East Gippsland Community College of T.A.F.E.
Bairnsdale, Victoria
1969-72 Toolmaking Apprenticeship Royal Technical
College,
Copenhagen, Denmark
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Fracture, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in
partnership with CAST Hobart
2007 Free Range, Mawsons Pavilion, Hobart Tasmania
2006 Making Relations CAST Hobart
2005 Convergence (touring exhibition) Preview,
Carnegie Gallery, Hobart; San Diego, USA; San
Francisco; USA Chigago, USA.
Different Readings,
State Library, Hobart, Tasmania
Fellow Anthropoid,
CAST, Hobart, Tasmania
SOFA ( sculpture Object
and Functional Art), Chicago, USA
Transformations,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
2004 Design Island Sydney Opera House Exhibition Hall
Inside Design
Inveresk Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston
2003 Experimental: House of Tomorrow Melbourne
Concert Hall
Association of
Seating & Entertainment Devonport Regional Gallery
2002/03 Future Factor Craft Queensland, Touring Exhibition including
Brisbane, Sunshine Coast,
Sydney, Canberra,
Melbourne, Adelaide & Gold Coast
2001 SOFA Chicago 2001, Chicago, USA - represented by
Despard Gallery, Tasmania
Containment,
interpretations of the cabinet, Despard Gallery
2000 SDI (Strategic Defence Initiative), touring
exhibition, Sydney and Brisbane
1999 SOFA 1999, Chicago, represented by Despard
Gallery
SDI (Strategic Defence Initiative) Object Gallery, Custom House, and
Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Sydney, NSW
SOFA New York,
New York, represented by Despard Gallery
Toward 2000,
Furniture & Lighting, Despard Gallery
1998 Past Tense/Future Perfect - National Exhibition
of Emerging
Contemporary Craft,
Craftwest Gallery Perth, Western Australia
Centre for
Contemporary Craft, Custom House, Sydney, NSW.
1997 Tasmanian Wood Design Collection, Hobart Town
Hall, Hobart Tas.
1996 SOFA ‘96, Represented by Despard Gallery,
Chicago, U.S.A.
1995 Collusion Collision - Shark - Design 95, Arts
and Industry Gallery,
Melbourne,
Victoria
Hatched, National
Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia
Contemporary
Furniture, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts,
Hobart, Tasmania
1994 Tasmanian Wood Design Collection, Long Gallery,
Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania
Presto,
Graduate Exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart,
Tasmania
1993 Insignificance, Graduate Exhibition, Old Bond
Store, Tasmanian
Museum and Art
Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1991 Gippsland Woodcraft, East Gippsland Regional
Arts Centre
Sale, Victoria
Working with Wood
Show, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Victoria
1990 Gippsland Woodcraft, East Gippsland Regional
Arts Centre
Sale, Victoria
1989 Gippsland Craft Expo, Bairnsdale, Victoria
AWARDS
2001 Australia Council, VAB New Work Grant
1999 Winner Museum of Contemporary Art, Seppelt Contemporary Art
Award (object design section)
1989 Scholarship - Land and Conversation (Victoria)
1996-98 Australian Post Graduate Research Scholarship
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Peter Prasil”, Beyond Imagination, Tourism Tasmania publication,
Hobart, 1999
Past Tense/Future Perfect, Jenny Spinks, Craftwest Centre for
Contemporary Craft, Perth, W.A. 1998
“On Show, by Design” The West Australian Magazine, p 14 July 4, 1998
“The Chicago Fifteen: Contemporary Australian Furniture” by Michael
Bogle, p14, in SOFA 96, Expressions of Cultures Inc. Chicago, 1996
Collusion Collision-Spark, John Andrews (et al), Arts + Industry Itd.,
Melbourne, 1995
COLLECTIONS
Smithsonian Institute, USA
National Gallery of Australia
East Gippsland Regional Arts Centre
Various private collections in Australia and USA.
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