Biography

Born in Melbourne in 1961, John grew up in the rural Victorian town of Maffra, going on to the Gippsland campus of Monash University B.A. course in 1982 and the V.C.A 1983-1986. He studied under Euan Heng, Geoff Dupree, Peter Booth, Ian Parry, Alan Mitelman and John Walker.

John’s works include drypoints, etchings, lithographs, monoprints, screenprints, wood engravings, linocuts, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and artist’s books, including poetry.

This year he was awarded the Grand Prize in the Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints and selected as a finalist in the Geelong acquisitive print awards.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1961                        Born Melbourne, Australia           

1982                        Studied BA Visual Art at Monash University, Gippsland Campus

1983-86              Studied BA Visual Art at Victorian College of the Arts

1983                        Mid-Year Award, Victorian College of the Arts

1984                        Lowenstein, Sharp, Feiglin and Ades Prize, Victorian College of the Arts

1997            Geelong Acquisitive Print Prize, Acquired (also 2003 & 2007) Geelong Art Gallery

2001                        Monash University, Gippsland Patron Print Commission

2004                        Judge for Nowa Nowa Nudes Nowa Nowa VIC

2005-06            State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1982                        Switchback Gallery, Gippsland VIC

1986                        Final Year Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne VIC                       

                        John Ryrie, Powell Street Graphics, Melbourne (also 1988, 1990, 1992) VIC

1990            Exhibition of Paintings Prahran College Melbourne VIC

                        Woodcuts, Tasmanian State Institute of Technology, Launceston TAS

1991                        North Hitch Book Launch, The Surgery, Melbourne VIC

1995                        Trees/Ladders, Detail Gallery, Melbourne VIC

                        John Ryrie, Australian Galleries, Melbourne VIC

1996                        John Ryrie 100 Works, Cowwarr Art Space Cowwarr, Gippsland VIC

1997                        Recent Works, Gallery B, Tasmania University, Launceston TAS

1998                        The Essoign Club 'Chrysalis Publishing, Melbourne VIC

                        Exhibition; Yering Station Winery and Gallery VIC

1999                        Stories Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale VIC

 2000                        Old and New Dreams Mildura Art Centre VIC

                        Prints, Paintings & Drawings Mitchelton Cellar Door Gallery VIC

 2001                        Gluttony Café, Prints Collingwood VIC

 2001-02            Myths & Fables The American Consulate, Melbourne VIC

 2002                        John Ryrie, Prints Chrysalis Publishing East Melbourne VIC

An Enchanted Loom, Reascent Paintings & Prints Gabriel Gallery Footscray VIC

 2003                        Awake Within a Dream Gippsland Art Gallery: Sale VIC

                        Prints & Paintings Main Street Editions Studio/Gallery Adelaide SA

                        John Ryrie, Prints Chrysalis Publishing East Melbourne VIC

2004                        John Ryrie Sculpture & Books St Vincent’s Hospital Fitzroy VIC

                        John Ryrie Sculpture & Books St George’s Hospital Kew VIC

                        Æsop Life and Fables Stonington Stables Museum of Art VIC

2006                        Art In Public Places Café Fidama Yarraville VIC

2007                        Prints Café Kaos Lorne VIC

                        The Tragic Comedy or Comic Tragedy of Punch and Judy, The State Library of VIC

                        Prints, paintings, drawings and sculpture Steelwise Seddon VIC

2008                        Æsoic Voices Melbourne University. VIC

2009                        Recent Work Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale VIC

                        Master of the Line, Chrysalis Gallery, East Melbourne, VIC

GROUP & INVITATION EXHIBITIONS

1977                        Sale Regional Art Gallery VIC (also 1978, 1979 and 1980)

1983                        Australian Student Printmakers, Print Council of Australia VIC

                        Australian Prints for Secondary Schools, Project No. 3 VIC

                        San Francisco Bay Area Exchange Exhibition USA

1987                        New Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne VIC

                        Gippsland Prints and Printmakers, Sale Regional Art Gallery VIC

                        Alice Springs Art Foundation SA

                        Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery (also 1989)

1988                        Four Painters Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne VIC

                        Woodcuts, with Rebeka Koska Print Council of Australia, Melbourne VIC

                        Member Print, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne (also 1989, 1996) VIC                                                            Homage to Munakata Shinko, Macquarie Gallery, Sydney NSW

                        Goldfields Print Award, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC

 1989                        Three Painters, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne VIC

                        Goldfields Print Award, The Fiveway Gallery, Sydney NSW

                        Heidelberg and Heritage 9 by 5, Linden Gallery VIC

                        International Master Print Fair, Sydney NSW

1990                        Henri Warland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool VIC

100 Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne VIC

 New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria

Acquisitions, Mornington Peninsula Art Centre, Victoria (also 1993, 1994) VIC

1991                        Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool VIC

                        16th Fremantle Print Exhibition, Perth WA

                        Not the Archibald Prize, Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne VIC

                        Bookbinding Exhibition, Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show (3rd prize) VIC

                        Book Exhibition, South Yarra Library, Melbourne VIC

1992                        Bound to Please, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne VIC

                        Booked Up, Hub Art, Melbourne VIC

1993                        Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria

                        18th Annual Fremantle Print Award, Perth WA

1994                        Less Ness, Gallery B, Launceston and Bernie TAS

                        Fourth Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne VIC

                        Australian Artist's Book Fair, State Library of Queensland

1996                        The Cafe Exhibition, Earth Art, Melbourne VIC

                        Unwrapped at Roar, Roar 2, Melbourne VIC

Translations From the Greek and Latin Classics, Monash University Library VIC

Shell Fremantle Print Award, Perth WA

1997                        Artist’s Book Fair, London UK

                        Artist’s Books, Mainstreet Editions, Adelaide SA

                        Fourth Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Bhopal, India

                        Boxed - Institut Teknilogi, Mara, Malaysia

                        International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney NSW

In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts & linocuts, National Gallery of Victoria

Geelong Acquisitive Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery (also 1999, 2009) VIC

Paging the book, (Artists Books) Lopdell House Gallery New Zealand

Book binding exhibit Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show (2nd prize) VIC

Made in Cuba Leviathan Visual Arts Melbourne, (Melbourne Fringe Festival)

Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award 1997 Warrnambool Art Gallery VIC

1998            Made in Cuba The Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Gippsland Regional Gallery VIC

Made in Cuba Qdos Gallery Lorne VIC

From The Book Zone Gallery Adelaide SA

A Flourishing Ecology Side Space Gallery Hobart TAS

Kunst RAI Contemporary Art Fair, Amsterdam Holland

The Ladder-Maverick, Arts Victoria, Vista Hotel VIC

1998 Book & Multiples Fair Brisbane QLD

FUSE Melbourne Fringe Festival, AAGA VIC

An Australian Icon, Melbourne Fringe Festival National Gallery of Victoria

The Fifth Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne VIC

Illawarra Acquisitive Print Award, West Woolongong NSW

Book binding Exhibition, Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show (2^nd & 3^rd Prizes)

ExLIBRIS & ARTISTS’ BOOKS, Akki Van Ogtrop Fine Art Gallery NSW

The “Big” Small print show Grahame Galleries & Editions Brisbane QLD

1999                        Modern Australian Poetry Monash University Library Melbourne VIC

1999 Nillumbik Art Award Greensborough VIC

Geelong Print Prize VIC

1999 Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize VIC

Illawarra Acquisitive Print Award NSW

Shell Fremantle Print Award WA

The 1999 Hutchins Art Prize TAS

2000                        Swan Hill Prints and Drawing Award Swan Hill Regional Gallery VIC

                        BAREN Exchange Print Exhibition Skokie Public Library, Skokie Illinois USA

                        Artz Blitz Kingston Arts Centre Moorabbin VIC

                        BAREN Exchange Print Exhibition the National Gallery of Uganda Africa

                        Group Exhibition Eckersley’s Open Space Gallery VIC

                        Unveiling…the QUT Art Collection QUT Art Museum QLD

                        The 2000 Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints Glen Eira Art Centre VIC

                        Woodcut.com”, Beit-Gavriel Cultural Centre, Jordan Valley, Israel

                        Melbourne Artfair 2000 VIC

Working of the Mind Melbourne Prints of the 60’s to the 90’ s QUT Art Museum QLD

2001                        Woodcut.com” Yad le Banim Gallery, Tiberias, Israel

                        Geelong Print Prize Geelong Art Gallery VIC

The Toronto International Art Fair 2001 Canada

Manningham Gallery VIC

BAREN Exchange Print Exhibition  #2 Skokie Public Library, Skokie Illinois USA

Artist’s Books Stephen McLoughlin Gallery VIC

MLC Acquisitive Art Show VIC

The Sydney Works on Paper Fair NSW

                        The Camberwell Art Fair VIC

2002                        Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Prize Williamstown VIC

                        The 2002 Silk Cut Award VIC

2003                        Hermanns Art Award Christine Abrahams Gallery VIC then touring VIC & NSW

                        The Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Prize Williamstown VIC

                        Toorak Village Sculpture Festival Toorak VIC

                        Geelong Print Prize Geelong Art Gallery VIC

                        National Works on Paper Award Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery VIC

                        Sydney Art on Paper Fair Sydney NSW

                        Works on Paper Art Award Banyule City Council VIC

                        Shell Fremantle Print Award Fremantle WA

2004                        Vietnamese Cultural Arts Project Exhibition Altona VIC

                        Life Drawing at Gas Works Gas Works VIC

                        The 2004 Silk Cut Award VIC

                        National Works on Paper Award Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery VIC

                        Melbourne Art Fair 2004 VIC

                        Between a Rock and a Hard Place Lancaster Press Brooklyn VIC

                        Music in their lives Winshaut Gallery Port Fairy VIC

                        Each day a picture – The art of Chrysalis Montsalvat Eltham VIC

                        A year in the studio Chrysalis East Melbourne VIC

2005                        Expansion Lancaster Press Brooklyn VIC

                        The Hanover Collection Chrysalis Publishing VIC

                        33 Print folio Port Jackson Press VIC

                        double TAKE Arts Project Australia VIC

                        Recent Acquisitions National Gallery of Victoria VIC                                   

                        Works on Paper Art Award Banyule City Council VIC

                        A year in the studio Chrysalis East Melbourne VIC

2006                        The Libris Awards Artspace Mackay QLD

                        The Tattersall’s Contemporary Art Prize 06 Williamstown VIC

                        Art Bound a selection of artist’s books University of Melbourne VIC

                        The 2006 Silk Cut Award VIC

2006 Artist Book Award Southern Cross University Lismore NSW

Impressions 2006 Australian Print Workshop Fitzroy VIC

The Hanover Print Collection 2006 Chrysalis Publishing East Melbourne VIC

2007                        Geelong Print Prize Geelong Art Gallery VIC

                        Page or Not The East Gippsland Art Gallery Bairnsdale VIC

                        Fremantle Print Prize Fremantle Art Centre Fremantle WA

                        Works on Paper Art Award Banyule City Council VIC

                        Book & Multiples Fair Brisbane QLD

2008                        What’s in a name? Burnie Regional Gallery TAS

                        The 2008 Silk Cut Award VIC

                        Double Wagga Wagga Art Gallery NSW

2009                        Darebin LaTrobe Art Prize Bundoora VIC

Artist’s Books From the Deakin University Collection Geelong Art Gallery VIC

Recent Acquisitions Monash University Library Clayton VIC

Books beyond words Award The East Gippsland Art Gallery Bairnsdale VIC

More Beasties Charles Sturt University NSW

Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery VIC

Grand Prize, Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, VIC

RESIDENCIES

1991                        The University of Tasmania, Launceston Tasmania

1997                        The University of Tasmania, Launceston & Hobart Tasmania

1998                        The James Cook University, Townsville Queensland

2001-03            Hydra Studio Footscray Community Art Centre

2003-04            St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne

ARTIST’S BOOKS

1982                        10 Woodcuts

                        15 Woodcuts

1985                        Untitled Book

1990                        North Hitch (with Campbell Thompson), Cockatoo Press

                        Nelly, Cockatoo Press

1991                        The Fables of Æsop, Canning Street Press

1992                        There was a Mad Man, Canning Street Press

1993                        A Miracle by the Holy Saint Magnus of Orkney (with Rodney Miller)

1995                        Trees/Ladder (with Alex Selenitsch and Hamish Hill), Hybrid Production

1996                        More Fables of Æsop

1997                        Cycle

                        Pelican Poems (with Adrian Rawlins)

1998                        Night

                        Magpie Song (with Alex Selenitsch)

2004                        The night has a thousand eyes

2007                        The Selfish Giant (with Oscar Wild)

2008                        A Man Who Went To See The Sea

PRINT PORTFOLIOS

1999                        BAREN woodcut Print Exchange #3

                        BAREN woodcut Print Exchange #4

2000                        BAREN woodcut Print Exchange #5

2001                        FORMS Print Australia

2004                        33 Print Folio

2007                        50 a folio of prints by Victorian artists

2008                        double Print Folio           

2009                        52 a folio of prints by Victorian artists

PUBLICATIONS

Directory of Australian Printmakers, D.W. Thorpe, 1988

Australian Books in Print - D.W. Thorpe, 1997

National Association for the Visual Arts Data Base, 1992

Limited Book Production with an Emphasis on the Relief, 1992

Printed Artist's Book - Jo Wild, 1992

Occasional Publications No. 2 - Victorian Bookbinders Guild, 1993

Beware Artist's Books, State Library of Queensland, 1994

Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists - D.W. Thorpe, 1995

Grishin, Sasha, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: Artist Printmakers, Craftsman House,     1995

Fourth Bharat Bavan International Biennial of Prints, Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, 1997

Grant, Kirsty, In Relief: Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts, 1997

Directory of Prints '97 CD-ROM International Print Society. Krakow Poland 1997

Premier Collection, Collected Works, Stonington Stables Museum of Art Dekin University 1998

The Ladder, Catalogue 1998

Who’s Who in the World, W.D. Thorpe 1998

Modern Australian Poetry Monash University Library Rare Books Collection 1999

Special collections selected works, Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University 1999

The 2000 Silk Cut Award For Lino Prints, Catalog Dianne Waite

The 2002 Silk Cut Award For Lino Prints, Catalog Dianne Waite

The 2004 Silk Cut Award For Lino Prints, Catalog Dianne Waite

The 2006 Silk Cut Award For Lino Prints, Catalog Dianne Waite

The 2006 Silk Cut Award For Lino Prints, Catalog Kirsten Rann

West of the West Common Ground Publications P/L  2003

Æsop Life and Fables Catalogue Stonington Stables Museum of Art 2004

The Sleepers Almanac 2007 Sleepers Publishing Australia

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