Title

Courier, Jack

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

1990

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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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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