BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

1961 Born Melbourne, Australia

1982 Studied BA at Monash University, Gippsland Campus

1983-86 Studied BA 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, Geelong Art Gallery

1999 Studying Masters of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1981 Switchback Gallery, Gippsland

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

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

1990 Woodcuts, Tasmanian State Institute of Technology, Launceston

1991 North Hitch Book Launch, The Surgery, Melbourne

1995 Trees/Ladders, Detail Gallery, Melbourne

John Ryrie, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

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

1997 Recent Works, Gallery B, Tasmania University, Launceston

1998 The Essoign Club 'Chrysalis Publishing, Melbourne

Exhibition; Yering Station Winery and Gallery

1999 Stories Gipsland Art Gallery: Sale
 

GROUP AND INVITATION EXHIBITIONS

1980 Sale Regional Art Gallery

1983 Australian Student Printmakers, Print Council of Australia

Australian Prints for Secondary Schools, Project No. 3

San Francisco Bay Area Exchange Exhibition U S A

1987 New Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Gippsland Prints and Printmakers, Sale Regional Art Gallery

Alice Springs Art Foundation

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

1988 Four Painters Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Woodcuts, with Rebeka Koska Print Council of Australia, Melbourne

Member Print, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne (also 1989, 1996)

Homage to Munakata Shinko, Macquarie Gallery, Sydney

Goldfields Print Award, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria

1989 Three Painters, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Goldfields Print Award, The Fiveway Gallery, Sydney

Heidelberg and Heritage 9 by 5, Linden Gallery

International Master Print Fair, Sydney

1990 Henri Warland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool

Exhibition of Paintings Prahran College Melbourne

100 Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne

New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria

Acquisitions, Mornington Peninsula Art Center, Victoria (also 1993, 1994)

1991 Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool

16th Fremantle Print Exhibition, Perth

Not the Archibald Prize, Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne

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

Book Exhibition, South Yarra Library, Melbourne

1992 Bound to Please, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne

Booked Up, Hub Art, Melbourne

1993 Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria

18th Annual Fremantle Print Award, Perth

1994 Less Ness, Gallery B, Launceston and Bernie

Fourth Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

Australian Artist's Book Fair, State Library of Queensland

1996 The Cafe Exhibition, Earth Art, Melbourne

Unwrapped at Roar, Roar 2, Melbourne

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

Shell Fremantle Print Award, Perth

1997 Artists Book Fair, London

Artists Books, Mainstreet Editions, Adelaide

Fourth Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Bhopal, India

Boxed - Institut Teknilogi, Mara, Malaysia

International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney

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

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

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

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

Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award 1997 Warrnambool Art Gallery

1998 Made in Cuba The Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Gipsland Regional Gallery

Made in Cuba Qdos Gallery Lorne

From The Book Zone Gallery Adelaide

A Flourishing Ecology Side Space Gallery Hobart

Kunst RAI Contemporary Art Fair, Amsterdam Holland

The Ladder-Maverick, Arts Victoria, Vista Hotel

1998 Book & Multiples Fair Brisbane

FUSE Melbourne Fringe Festival, AAGA

An Australian Icon, Melbourne Fringe Festival National Gallery of Victoria

The Fifth Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

Illawarra Acquisitive Print Award, West Woolongong NSW

Book binding Exhibition, Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show (2nd & 3ed prize's)

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

The "Big" Small print show Grahame Galleries+Editions Brisbane

1999 Modern Australian Poetry Monash University Library Melbourne

1999 Nillumbik Art Award Greensborough Vic

Geelong Print Prize Vic

1999 Derbin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize Vic

Illawarra Acquisitive Print Award NSW

Shell Fremantle Print Award
 

RESIDENCIES

1991 The University of Tasmania, Launseston Tasmania

1997 The University of Tasmania, Launseston & Hobart Tasmania

1998 The James Cook University, Townsvill Queensland
 

ARTISTS 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

1999 Magpie Song (with Alex Selenitsch)
 
 
 
 
 

PUBLICATION

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,

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

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

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

COLLECTIONS

Artbank  Australian National Gallery	National Gallery of Victoria  State Library of Queensland
Canson Australia Pty Ltd  Deakin University Melbourne Geelong Art Gallery  Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale Ipswich Regional Collection Gippsland Institute of Advanced  Education State Library of Victoria Melbourne University Library Australian National Library The Queen Victoria Museum  Launseston	The Hamilton Collection University of Technology, Queensland Victorian College of The Arts Warrnambool Regional Gallery Monash University Library Mornington Peninsula Art Center  La Trobe Regional Art Gallery National Australia Bank State library of NSW The Defense Force Academy ACT