John Scurry
John Scurry
Untitled (Still Life with Orange and Cup on Table), 1986
John Scurry (born 1947)
lithograph, ed. P/P
image 50 x 70 cm, sheet 56.8 x 76.1 cm
editioned, signed and dated in pencil below image
Note: Another impression of this print is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, NGA 2002.431.1158
sold
John Scurry’s art is primarily that of the studio interior and still-life. It is in the banal and overlooked things – the insignificant objects of modern life – that he finds his true metier. In the exquisite precision of his work and ironic juxtapositions there is at once tenderness and detachment, a poetry of the every-day… His is a world acutely observed, familiar though often unsettling. Elizabeth Cross,
John Scurry was born in Melbourne and studied art at Prahran College. He has been exhibiting since 1969. Concurrent with his studio practice he taught for over three decades in schools of art in Melbourne. His last sixteen years as a senior lecturer at VCA University of Melbourne, where he was a former head of printmaking.
His work is represented in several major collections such as the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and the Geelong Art Gallery as well as many private collections.