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Name
COURIER, Jack

Other Names
COURIER, Auguste John

Culture
Australian | Male


Birth Date
15 August 1915

Birth Place
Spray Street, Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Death Date
2007

Death Place
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Movements
Europe, England during 1950-51, 1954-60


Summary
Artist (painter) | Drawer | Printmaker | Worked: Australia (VIC), England.. Etchings, Lithographs, Screenprints, Monotypes
Context
Australia


Remarks

John Courier

Born in Melbourne 15 August 1915, John Courier studied drawing and painting with George Bell. From 1950 to 1951 he travelled in Europe. He returned to England under a British Council Bursary 1954-1956 and studied painting, drawing, lithography (with Lynton Lamb and Ceri Richards) and etching at the Slade School, London. On his return to Melbourne, he set up the first printmaking department at Prahran Technical School. He was later printmaking instructor at Caulfield Institute of Technology. He mainly works in lithography.

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Married to Mary McLeish


 

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