1947 Born Melbourne, Australia
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Solo Exhibitions
2019 Collection leads: John Scurry ─ small paintings, Geelong Art Gallery
2017 Recent Work, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra
2012 John Scurry: Paintings, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2011 Recent Work, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Recent Work, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Joshua McClelland Print Rooms, Melbourne
2000 Joshua McClelland Print Rooms, Melbourne
1999 AXIA Modern Art, Melbourne
1995 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Powell Street Graphics, 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
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Group Exhibitions (selected)
2019 Paper Walls, Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne
2017 9 x 5, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne
2017 Blue Chip X1X: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2017 Romancing the Skull, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
2012 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
2011 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
2010 Constellations, A Large Number of Small Drawings, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2010 In the Kitchen Sink, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of NSW; 7th Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall, Canberra
2006 Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
2006 MARS Goes to Treasury Place, Treasury Place, Melbourne; One Square Foot, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne
2005 The Launch, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne; One Square Foot, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Dobell Drawing Prize, AGNSW, Sydney; Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle, Western Australia
2000 Desire, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; Melbourne International Art Fair, Melbourne
1997 The Real Thing, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1994 Unpeeled Art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria; The Archibald Prize, AGNSW, Sydney
1993 Arrangement: Australian Still Life 1973 – 1993, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne; Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1991 Something to do with the sea, Powell St Gallery, Melbourne
1990 It All Starts Here, Powell St Gallery, Melbourne
1988 New Work, Powell St Gallery, Melbourne
1987-90 Young Australians, National Touring Exhibition
1983 Faces and Figures Drawn from Life, Heide Museum of Modern Art
1981 McCaughey Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Aspects of Realism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1977 Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria
1977 East Coast Drawing, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1976 Women in Art, Western Australia Institute of Technology, Perth
1974 3 + 3 + 1 + 3, Powell St Gallery, Melbourne
1969 Three-Man Exhibition, Gallery 99, Melbourne
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Collections
ANZ Bank
Artbank
Art Gallery of NSW
Australia Club
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Canberra School of Arts
Castlemaine Art Gallery
Deakin University
Devonport Art Gallery and Museum
Federation University
Geelong Art Gallery
Lander & Rogers, Melbourne
Mitchell Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Art Gallery
Print Council of Australia
Shell Australia Collection
State Library of Victoria
University of Melbourne
University of Vilnius, Lithuania
University of Western Australia
Victorian College of the Arts
Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council
Western Mining Corporation
Private Collections
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Commissions
1991 Portrait of Prof. J Hurley, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne
1988 John Bourne and Associates
1986 Portrait of Mr. Maxwell Hooper, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education
1984 Portrait of Bishop of Canberra, Anglican Archdiocese, Canberra
1980 Portrait of Merrimee Family, French Embassy, Canberra
1979 Portrait of John Nathan, College of Optometry, University of Melbourne
1979 Print Council of Australia
1979 Portrait of Sir Douglas Menzies, Monash University
1978 Portrait of Emeritus Professor H. Atkinson, Dental School, University of Melbourne