Background
David Edgar Strachan was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England in 1919 to a doctor in the Australian Army.
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David Strachan
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He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Victoria. In 1937 he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris and worked as a printmaker.
Career
In 1920 David and his family moved to Adelaide, later moving to Creswick, Victoria. He moved to London in 1936 to study at the Slade School of Fine Art under Randolph Schwabe for two years. He returned to Australia in April 1938 and worked with George Bell in Melbourne for a few years.
Strachan moved to Sydney in 1941, and exhibited with many other prominent artists of the Contemporary Art Group.
He again left for Europe in 1948 where he began experimenting in etching in Paris. In May 1960 Strachan returned to Sydney, continuing to exhibit, and also teaching etching at East Sydney Technical College (1960–1965).
He was the last president of the Society of Artists, serving in 1965. Strachan held solo and group shows in London and Paris and appeared in the Paris United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Exposition.
He exhibited his prints in numerous Australian galleries between 1961 and 1978.
Strachan died on 23 November 1970 from a motorcar accident near Yass, New South Wales.
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