Biography

BIOGRAPHY
John Scurry was born in 1947 in Melbourne, Victoria.
He studied at the Prahran College of Advanced Education, graduating with a Diploma of Art and Design in 1969. In 1971 he gained a Trained Tertiary Certificate from Hawthorn Institute of Education.
From 1973 to 1976 Scurry worked as a Full time Senior Tutor in the Printmaking Department of the Preston Institute of Technology, going on to become the Acting Head of the Department in 1976. Working as a Lecturer in the Drawing Department of Prahran College of Advanced Education he then became a Lecturer in Printmaking from 1977 to 1978.
In 1979 he began teaching as Full time Lecturer in Printmaking at the Victoria College of the Arts, where in the following years he was Senior Lecturer in Charge of Printmaking in the Faculty of Art and Design (1982-1991, Head of Printmaking School of Art (1991-2003) and Senior Lecturer (2003-2007) before retiring to focus his time on his own work.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009    MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2007    MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2003    Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
2001    Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
2000    Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
1995    Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1992    Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1990    Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1986    Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1984    Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1983    Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1981    Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1975    Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009    Seventh Drawing Biennale: The Drill Hall Gallery A.N.U.
2008    Dobell Prize for Drawing:  AGNSW
2008    ‘Its Love’: Melbourne Art Rooms: Victoria
2007    ‘Snap Freeze, Still Life Now’: Tarra Warra Museum of Art, Victoria
2006    One Square Foot: Melbourne Art Rooms Group Show, Victoria
2003    Dobell Prize for Drawing
2003    Savage Art Prize:  Melbourne
2001    Fremantle Print Prize:  Fremantle, W.A.
2001    ‘Desire’: RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
2001    Savage Art Prize: Melbourne
2001    Melbourne International Art Fair: Melbourne
2001    School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Invitational Group Exhibition: Victoria
2000    ‘Spring Festival of Drawing’: Mornington Peninsula Art Centre, Victoria
1999    ‘The Real Thing’: Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
1997    ‘Spring Festival of Drawing’:   Mornington Peninsula Art Centre
1997     Invitational Group Exhibition: School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Victoria
1994    'Unpeeled Art': Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1994    “The Face of Hope”, Exhibition and Auction for Amnesty International, Art Gallery of NSW
1994     Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes: Regional Tour of selected works, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery,                                       Broken Hill Art Gallery, Tamworth City Gallery, Australia             
1994     The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1993     The Art of Jazz: Montsalvat Jazz Festival, Montsalvat, Victoria
1993     ‘Arrangement, Australian Still Life 1973 – 1993’: Museum of Modern Art, Heide. Victoria   
1993     The Dobell Drawing Award, Art Gallery of N.S.W.
1992     ‘Marvellous Melbourne’: Powell St. Gallery, Melbourne
1992     ACTA Maritime Award (Finalist), Westpac Gallery (Travelling)
1991     ‘The Horizon Expanded’, Powell St. Gallery, Melbourne
1991     "Something To Do With The Sea": Powell St. Gallery, Melbourne
1990     ‘It All Starts From Here’: Powell St. Gallery, Melbourne
1989     ‘The Gouache Show’ - Three person show: Powell St. Graphics, Melbourne
1988     Hamilton Ansett Awards: Victoria
1988     "Interior Motives" Mitchelton Print Exhibition: Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1988     “New Work": Powell St. Gallery, Melbourne
1986     'Melbourne Printmakers': Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and Regional Tour
1986     'Aberdare Prize’: Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
1985     'New York': Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1984     'Still Life and the Interior': Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1983     'Faces and Figures Drawn from Life': Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
1982     Inaugural Print Show: Powell Street Graphics, Melbourne
1982     'Some Melbourne Printmakers': Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1981     'Preston to Phillip - Ten Years of Art Education’: Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
1981     McCaughey Prize Exhibition: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1981     Winter Exhibition: Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane
1981     Capital Permanent Invitation Art Board, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1981     'Aspects of Realism': National Gallery of Victoria
1980     Group Exhibition Prints: McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
1980     Group Exhibition Axiom Gallery Premiere, Melbourne
1980     Wynne and Sulman Prize Exhibitions: Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1980     Group Show: Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1979     Trustees Purchase Prize Exhibition: Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
1979     Three-Man Exhibition: Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne,
             Group Exhibition: Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1979     Spring Festival of Drawing: Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
1979     Drawing Group Exhibition: Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1979/80    'Still Life Still Lives', The Glenfiddich Exhibition: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Regionals
1977     Staff Show, Prahran College of Advanced Education Gallery
1976     'East Coast Drawing': Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1976     'The Contemporary Nude': Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne
1976     'Women in Art': Western Australia Institute of Technology
1973     '3 + 3 + 3 + 1' Group Show: Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1969     Three-Man Exhibition: Gallery 99, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS
A.N.Z. Bank
Art Bank
Australia Club
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Canberra School of Arts
Castlemaine Art Gallery
Deakin University
Devonport Art Gallery and Museum
Geelong Art Gallery
Melbourne University
Mitchell Endowment, National Gallery, Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Art Gallery
Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
Shell Australia Collection
University of Vilnius, Lithuania
University of Western Australia
Victoria College, Burwood
Victorian College of the Arts
Western Mining Corporation
Art Gallery of New South Wales

COMMISSIONS
Portrait of Prof. J Hurley, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, 1991
Commission for John Bourne and Associates 1988
Portrait of Mr Maxwell Hooper, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education  1986
Portrait of Bishop of Canberra, Anglican Archdiocese, Canberra 1984
Portrait of Merrimee Family, French Embassy, Canberra 1983
Portrait of John Nathan, College of Optometry, Melbourne University 1980
Print Council of Australia 1979
Portrait of Sir Douglas Menzies, Monash University 1979
Portrait of Emeritus Professor, H. Atkinson, Dental School, Melbourne University 1978

Thank you for subscribing