After the Party 1982

gouache and pencil on paper

2021.56

Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Irwin Hirsh in memory of Etta and Emmanuel Hirsh, 2021

About the artist and their work:

John Scurry was born in the late 1940s in Melbourne and is a master printmaker and artist. After studies at the Prahran College of Advanced Education, he gained a Tertiary Training Certificate from Hawthorn Institute of Education and taught printmaking at the Preston Institute of Technology and Prahran College of Advanced Education. This led to teaching at the Victorian College of the Arts where he was Head of Printmaking (1991-2003). Scurry has exhibited across Australia. Selected exhibitions include Snap Freeze, Still Life Now, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, (2007); Desire, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, (2001); The Real Thing, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Bulleen, Victoria (1999); Melbourne Printmakers, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (1986); and Aspects of Realism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1981).