Birth Name: | Tom Bowers |
Birth Place: | London, United Kingdom |
Death Date: | March |
Death Place: | Seychelles |
Nationality: | British |
Years Active: | 19502021 |
Notable Works: | Liberty Monument |
Children: | Katy |
Tom Bowers (– March 2021) was a British-born Seychellois sculptor and photographer.
Bowers was born in London, the United Kingdom where he studied graphic art and sculpture. He later worked as a freelance advertiser after he opened a photographic studio in London. In 1981, along with his family, he visited Seychelles on holiday before he decided to move into the country permanently in 1986.[1]
In 2014, he was commissioned by the government of Seychelles to design the Liberty Monument which replaced the old Zom Libb monument.[2] Bowers has a sculpture studio in Anse a la Mouche, Seychelles.[3]
He died in March 2021, 84 years old.[4]