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Title

You Yangs landscape

2004

Artist

John Scurry

Australia

1947 –

  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Melbourne → Victoria → Australia
    Date
    2004
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    etching, printed in black ink with plate tone on ivory wove paper
    Edition
    not editioned
    Dimensions
    18.8 x 29.8 cm platemark; 49.7 x 57.1 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Scurry ‘04".

    Credit
    Purchased with funds provided by the Arthur Boyd Acquisition Fund 2005
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    333.2005
    Copyright
    © John Scurry

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  • About

    John Scurry was born in Melbourne in 1947 and studied at the Prahran College of Advanced Education (1969) and the Hawthorn Institute of Education (1971). He has taught Drawing and Printmaking in Melbourne since 1973, most recently as Head of Printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1991-2003, and has been Senior Lecturer at the VCA since 2003. He has exhibited regularly since 1969, and his work is in a number of private, university, corporate and public collections, including several regional Victorian galleries and the NGV.

    His work has been shown in the Archibald, Wynne, Sulman and Dobell Prizes at the Gallery five times since 1980, most recently this year with a still life drawing in the Dobell Prize, 'Camberwell' 2005.

    © Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005

  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Melbourne