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= Tomass Pārups =

Biography
Tomass Aleksanrs Pārups (born March 8, 2000) is an Latvian art critic.

Mother Ieva Pārupa, private shop owner. Education Lietišķās Mākslas middle school (now: Rīgas Dizaina Mākslas middle school), fashion design department, Riga, Latvia.

Father Egīls Juris Pārups, graphic designer. Education Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia.

Early life
Parups is of Latvian and Australian descent, born in Riga he attended private school "Patnis" before dropping out and applying to online distance learning school. Since 2014 he's articles have been published in satori.lv, arterritory.com, fotokvartals.lv, "Kultūras Diena". He has written curatorial texts for artists like Ojārs Pētersons and Ēriks Apaļais. in 2017 he wrote an biographical book about contemporary artist and art gallery owner Maija Kurševa published by Neputns.

artterritory.lv
22.02.2018. review, Jāņa Avotiņa exhibition "Celebration" ("Svētki")

12.02.2018. commentary,

Regarding reality
Few years ago there was a controversy regarding Tomass age and existence, nobody believed he is real.