John Ryrie Biography

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 (also 2003)
2001 Monash University, Gippsland Patron Print Commission
2004 Judge for Nowa Nowa Nudes Nowa Nowa VIC
2005-06 Stat 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, 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 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

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 Derbin-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
Banyule Works on Paper Award Ivanhoe 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
Melbourn Art Fair 2004 VIC
Between a Rock and a Hard Place Lanaster Press Brooklin 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
2006 Artist Book Award Southern Cross University Lismore 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

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)
2005 The night has a tousand eyes

PRINT PORTFOLIOS
1999 BAREN woodcut Print Exchange #3
BAREN woodcut Print Exchange #4
2000 BAREN woodcut Print Exchange #5
2001 FORMS Print Australia
2005 33 Print Folio

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, 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
West of the West Common Ground Publications P/L 2003
Æsop Life and Fables Catalogue Stonington Stables Museum of Art 2004

COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Artspace Mackay
Australian National Gallery.
Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania.
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 America ConciliateMelbourne.
National Gallery of Victoria. 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.