John Ryrie Biography

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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
         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 Gipsland Art Gallery: Sale VIC

2000 Old and New Dreams Mildura Art Center VIC
         Prints, Paintings & Drawings Mitchelton Celler Door Gallery VIC

2001 Gluttony Café, Prints Colingwood VIC

2001-02 Myths & Fables The American Consulate, Melbounr 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 Adelade 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 Tragical Comedy or Comic Tragedy of Punch and Judy, The Sate Library of VIC
         Prints, paintings, drawings and sculpture Steelwize Sedon VIC
         Prints, Paintings Sculpture and Drawings Steelwise Seddon VIC

2008 Æsoic Voices Melbourne University. VIC
         Recent Work Gippsland Art Gallery: Sale VIC

GROUP AND 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 Center, 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 Artists Book Fair, London UK
         Artists 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  Natiaonal Gallery of Victoria.
         Geelong Acquisitive Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery (also 1999) 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, Gipsland 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 (2nd & 3ed prize’s)
         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 Center 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 Center VIC
         Woodcut.com”, Beit-Gavriel Cultural Center, Jordan Valley, Israel
         Melbourne Artfair 2000 VIC
         Working of the Mind  Melbourne Prints of the 60’s to the90’ 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 Far 2001 Canada
         Manningham Gallery VIC
         BAREN Exchange Print Exhibition  #2 Skokie Public Library, Skokie Illinois USA
         Artists Books Stepen McLoughlan 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 Contempory Art Prize Williamstown VIC
         Toorak Village Sculpture Festiva 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 Lanaster 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 Expantion Lanaster Press Brooklin 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 Contepory Art Prize 06 Williamstown VIC
         Art Bound aselection of artists’ 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 Center 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

RESIDENCIES
1991 The University of Tasmania, Launseston Tasmania
1997 The University of Tasmania, Launseston & Hobart Tasmania
1998 The James Cook University, Townsvill Queensland
2001-03 Hydra Studio Footscry Community Art Center
2003-04 St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne

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 selectted 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
Extempore Vol’ One

COLLECTIONS    
Artbank
Artspace Mackay
Australian National Gallery.
Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania.
Canson Australia Pty Ltd.
Charle Sturt University
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 America ConciliateMelbourne.
National  Gallery of Victoria.
Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem NSW    State  Library  of Queenslan
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.
New York Public Library, USA.
Portland Museum, USA.
The Silk Cut Collection
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
The Banyule City Council VIC
Charlse Darwin University Alice Springs.
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery NSW