John Wolseley - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

John Wolseley

Artist profile

Natural Selection: MALLEE/MAQUIS (Celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin 1809 - 2009), 2008

John Wolseley, The Wood, The World, and The Parrot, 2006

Bird on a Wire, 2005

Six Months in the National Park, 2002

Tracing The Wallace Line, 2001

Drifting Continents - the araularia trees of Queensland and Chile, 2001

The colonizing of lichens in Tasmania and Valdivia, 1996

Prints

miscellaneous works

	JOHN WOLSELEY
1938	Born United Kingdom 1938 Educated Byam Shaw and St Martin's School of Art, London
1959	Lived in Paris, working with S.W. Hayter
1962	Lived in London, worked at Birgit Skiolds print workshop
1969	Moved back to west of England and began Nettlecombe Studios, an artists' and farmers' collective
1974-75	Spent six months in Spanish Pyrenees and went on expedition up the Skrang River, Borneo
1976	Settled in Australia. Artist-in-Residence, Newcastle CAE. Moved to Thorpedale, Gippsland. Lecturer, Gippsland CAE
1979-80	Artist-in-Residence, Deakin University, Geelong
1980	Travelled extensively in central Australia
1984	Travelled extensively in north-western Australia. Moved to Blue Mountains, NSW.
1987	Returned to St Kilda, Melbourne
1993	Five months in Tasmania
1994-95	Four months in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego charting Gondwana
1999	Extensive travel and painting in northern Australia and Indonesia
2002	Four months project in Royal National Park, NSW
2003-2005	Painting in Mallee and Sunset Country
2006	Project on Fences and Boundaries, Victoria/South Australia Border fence from the Murray River to the Sea, Great South West Walk Art Project
	Currently lives and works in Whipstick Forest and St Kilda, Victoria
	SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008	Natural Selection: MALLEE/MAQUIS, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006	The Wood, The World and The Parrot, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2005	Bird on a Wire, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW Firebird, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2004	After the Fire, Leaf Surge, Seed Flight, New Growth, New Prints, Australian Galleries, Collingwood, Victoria
2003	Memory of Fire, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2002	Six months in the Royal National Park: Drawings and Paintings by John Wolseley, Edmond Barton Room, Sydney Grammar School, 7 - 13 September
2001	Tracing the Wallace Line, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 6 September - 30 September Tracing the Wallace Line, Bendigo City Art Gallery, NSW, 7 July - 12 August
1998	Land Marks, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
1996	Patagonia to Tasmania: Origin Movement Species Tracing the Southern Continent, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston; Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
1993	Desert: A Catalogue of Hidden Things in Sand and Paper, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1993 Million Drawings: Being an Examination of Australia's Flora and Fauna Since the Proterozoic Era, Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery, Launceston Simpson Desert Survey, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne Paintings, lithographs and sedimentary prints from the Simpson Desert, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
1991	Life in Mud and Sand, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1989	The Pearl Fisher's Voyage from Ise Shima to Roebuck Bay and other recent paintings, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
1988	Nomadism: John Wolseley Twelve Years in Australia: Paintings and Drawings, University Gallery, University of Melbourne From Wittenoom to Broome: Paintings of North Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1987	From Wittenoom to Broome: Paintings of North Western Australia, Joye Art Foundation, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
1984	From Bendigo to Kyoto, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
1982	A Journey from Mt Solitary to the Charles River, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1980	The Larapinta Land Journey, Geelong Regional Art Gallery; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
1978	John Wolseley, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1974	Selected prints, South West Arts Council, touring exhibition in East Anglia
1971	John Wolseley, Mayor Gallery, London
1965	John Wolseley, Mayor Gallery, London
1962	A survey trip down the Dordogne in a collapsible dinghy, Architectural Association, London
	GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008	The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, curated by Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane
2006	A Bird in the Hand: Paintings by Tony Clark and John Wolseley, curated by Robyn McKenzie, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Sixth Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra
2005	Peter Lyssiotis and John Wolseley: the adventures of two artists in the State Library of Victoria, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Fire Works: Tracing the incendiary in Australian Art, Artspace Mackay (touring exhibition)
2004	2004: Australian Culture Now, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne Place Made: Australian Print Workshop, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2003	Bushfire: Our community responds, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Flies and Spiders, Newcontemporaries, Sydney 2002 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, 25 June - 28 July
2002-2003	Meridian: Currents in Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 28 November 2002 - 2 February 2003
2002	The Big River Show: Murrumbidgee Riverine, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Palæographica, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia Common Ground, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, University of Woollongong
2001	Lie of the Land, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
2000	Art & Land: Contemporary Australian Visions, Noosa Regional Gallery (and Asialink touring exhibition) The Rose Crossing: Contemporary Art in Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney (and touring South East Asia) Restricting the Palette, Colour and Land, Canberra School of Art Gallery
1999	Landscapes in Sets and Series, National Gallery of Victoria touring exhibition
1998	Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition touring Northern Europe
1997	A Constructed World (with Geoff Lowe), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney New Australian Images through British eyes, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra Spirit & place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1996	Australian Watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition
1995	AMCOR Paper Awards, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne and touring Seven Histories of Australia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne The Derwent Collection: Australian Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
1993	To the surface: Contemporary Landscape, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart Poster Art in Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1991	Indo-Eco, regional Victoria touring exhibition Off the Wall, In the Air, A Seventies Selection, Monash University Gallery and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Two Hundred Years of Australian Painting, Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto, Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Diverse Visions, Queensland Art Gallery Green Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1989	Michael Johnson, Bernard Sachs, John Wolseley, Joye Art Foundation at Galerie Baudouin Lebon, Paris
1988	The Face of Australia: The Land, the People, the Present, the Past, Australian Bicentennial Authority touring exhibition A Changing Relationship: Aboriginal Themes in Australian Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1984	The centre: Works on paper by contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1981	Landscape Art: Two Way Reaction, National Gallery of Australia at the Australian National University, Canberra
1980	Lost and Found, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne
1973	International Print Biennale, Buenos Aires, Argentina Artist as Selector, Oxford City Art Gallery
1972	Florence Print Biennale, Florence, Italy New Lane Gallery (with Print Workshop), Bradford, UK
1970	Krakow Print Biennale, Krakow, Poland
1969	Morley College (with Printmakers Council), UK
1966	Wardour Music Festival (with Noah Morris), Wardour, UK
1965	Prints 1965, AIA
1964	Prints 1964, Hambledon Gallery, Blandford (with Julian Trevelyan) Centenary Exhibition, AIA, Californian Society of Etchers
1960	Royal Academy (also in 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971)
1959	London Group (also in 1960)
	AWARDS / PRIZES
2005	Honorary degree, Doctor of Science, Macquarie University, Sydney New Work Grant, Victorian Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council for the Arts Visual Arts Board Emeritus Award, Australia Council
2004	Trustees of Art Gallery of New South Wales, Watercolour Prize
2003	Creative Fellowship, State Library of Victoria
1998	Awarded Australia Council grant for Tracing the Wallace Line, a project exploring the line of demarcation as described by 19th century botanist Alfred Wallace, which runs through the islands of Indonesia and marks the point where the flora and fauna of Australia gives way to that of Asia
1996	Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize
1992	Winner, Kedumba Art Award Inaugural recipient, Mobil Print Award, Australian Print Workshop
1991	Awarded VACB fellowship to explore Simpson Desert
1988	Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize
1985	Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize
1982	Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize
1981-82	Awarded Visual Arts Board grant to explore George Gill and Peterman Ranges, N.T.
1980	Winner, Alice Prize
1979	Winner, Latrobe Valley SEC Prize Winner, Capital Permanent Prize, Geelong
1972	Winner, Kantos Prize, Florence Print Biennale
1970	First prize, Biennale International de la Gravure, Krakow
	COLLECTIONS
	Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Arts Council of Great Britain Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs Australian National University, Canberra BHP Collection, Melbourne Cheltenham College, UK City of Banyule, Melbourne Coopers and Lybrand, Melbourne Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK Derwent Collection, Hobart Joye Art Foundation, Sydney Geelong Regional Gallery Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale Kedumba Art Award Collection, Blackheath LaTrobe University, Melbourne Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria Mildura Arts Centre Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Newcastle Region Art Gallery Parliament House, Canberra Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran, Melbourne State Bank Collection, Sydney Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart The Christensen Fund University of Tasmania, Hobart Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Girton College, Cambridge, UK Harrogate Art Gallery, UK Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, UK Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia Ministry of Works, London, UK Newman College, Cambridge, UK Nuffield Foundation, London, UK Oxford City Art Gallery, UK Sheffield Education Committee, UK Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
	RESIDENCIES
2002	Art Fellow, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney
2001	Artist-in-residence, Wollongong University and Royal National Park, Sydney
1993	Artist-in-residence, Gorge Cottage and Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
1988	Artist-in-residence, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1983	Artist-in-residence, Bendigo City Art Gallery, Kyoto and Tokyo
1979-1980	Artist-in-residence, Deakin University, Geelong
1976	Artist-in-residence, Newcastle City Art Gallery and Gippsland City Art Gallery
	SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007	John McDonald and Ian Lloyd, Studio: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity, Singapore: Ian Lloyd Productions, 2007
2006	A Bird in the Hand: Paintings by Tony Clark and John Wolseley, exhibition catalogue, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo A Bird in the Hand: Paintings by Tony Clark and John Wolseley, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Alison Inglis, 'John Wolseley', Sixth Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra
2005	Website www.johnwolseley.net.au Sasha Grishin, `Sacred Ecology', Australian Art Review, Issue 09, November 2005 - February 2006, pp. 55 - 57 John Hughes, `What Remains', Southerly, Vol 64, Number 2, 2004 Clare Williamson, John Hughes, Lost and Found, Peter Lyssiotis and John Wolseley: two artists¹ adventures in the State Library, State Library of Victoria Peter Hylands and Jean-Pierre Chabrol, John Wolseley:The Smokers have taken the gold, DVD, Creative Cowboy Films, Melbourne, 2005 Robert Falso, John Wolseley: The Wallace Line, DVD, Double Life Films, Melbourne Barry Hill, `Their throats, the artist's promise', in Island, 100, Autumn, p.159
2004	Ashley Crawford, `The harmonic patterns of Mallee birdsong', Sunday Age, 27 July 2004 2004: Australian Culture Now, exhibition catalogue, ed. Dr Charles Green, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne, p. 205 Paul Carter, “Bearing Witness to the Eyewitness”, Material Culture, Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne Greg Weight, Australian Artists: Portraits by Greg Weight, Chapter & Verse, Sydney
2003	Ashley Crawford, `John Wolseley', See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, editors Chris MacAuliffe and Sue Harvey, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Victoria, p. 146, p. 147 Jane Deeth, `A shared appreciation', (John Wolseley and Linda Fredheim), Object Magazine No. 42, June - July, p. 26 - 28
2002	John Wolseley, `Bushfire Journals', in HEAT 4. Burnt Ground, ed. Ivor Indyk, November 2002, pp. 113-143 Diana Wood Conroy, Common Ground, exhibition catalogue, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, University of Woollongong, pp. 4 - 7 Peter Hill, `John Wolseley', Meridian: Currents in Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2002
2001	John Wolseley and Paul Carter, `Tracing The Wallace Line,' (exhibition catalogue), Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Marina Mueke, `Art & Land: Contemporary Australian Visions,' eyeline special issue, Spring, p. 50
2000	John Wolseley, `Rock Wallaby Dreaming,' Art & Australia, vol. 37, no. 3 Jenny Gage, Restricting the Palette, Colour and Land, exhibition catalogue, Canberra School of Art Gallery Laura Murray Cree & Neville Drury (eds), Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, Sydney
1999	The Rose Crossing: Contemporary Art in Australia, exhibition catalogue, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1998	Sasha Grishin, John Wolseley: Land Marks, Craftsman House, Sydney Sasha Grishin, `The Journeys of John Wolseley', Art and Australia, Vol 36 No 1 pp 69-75 Murray Waldren, `Wolseley's Wonderland', The Australian Magazine, October 10-11, pp27-30
1997	Sasha Grishin, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: Artist printmakers 1990-1995, Craftsman House, Sydney Gary Catalano, Building a Picture: Interviews with Australian Artists, McGraw-Hill, Sydney Sasha Grishin, `John Wolseley: Journeys in the Antipodes', British Council/Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra Sasha Grishin, `Art into Landscapes: New Australian images through British Eyes', Humanities Research, Winter E. Cross, `John Wolseley', Southern Reflections, Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1996/7	Cath Lovitt & Kate Allen, `John Wolseley: A peripatetic interview,' The Interior, vol. 1, nos 9-10
1996	Paul Carter, `The anxiety of clearings,' Patagonia to Tasmania: Origin, Movement, Species, Tracing the Southern Continents, Melbourne
1995	Sasha Grishin, Australian Paper: AMCOR Paper Awards, (catalogue essay), Melbourne Ramona Kovall, `Forces of Nature', The Age, 26 June, p 13
1994	Gary Catalano, `The sources of things: an interview with John Wolseley,' Art Monthly Australia, December, no. 76 John Wolseley, `Landscape - Inscape,' Our Common Ground: A celebration of art, place and environment, AILA, Hobart
1993	John Wolseley, Paintings, lithographs and sedimentary prints from the Simpson Desert, (artist statement), Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Ray Arnold, To the surface: Contemporary Landscape, (catalogue) Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
1992	Alison Broinowski, The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
1991	Janet Hawley, `John Wolseley: Brush with nature,' Good Weekend, 18 May Bettina McAuley, Diverse Visions, catalogue entry, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1990	John Wolseley, Notes about the installation `Deep Time Shallow Time: Journey from Ewaninga to Gosses Bluff,' Melbourne
1989	Michael Johnson, Bernhard Sachs, John Wolseley, exhibition catalogue, Joye Art Foundation at Baudouin Lebon, Paris The pearl fisher's voyage from Ise Shima to Roebuck Bay, (artist statement) Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney `John Wolseley: Painting the outback,' Frontier Country, Australia's Outback Heritage, Vol. 1, Weldon Russell, Sydney
1988	Nomadism: John Wolseley, Twelve Years in Australia, exhibition catalogue, University Gallery, University of Melbourne Charles Green, `Seduction in the Landscape,' Art & Australia, vol. 26 no. 2 Josko Petkovic, `John Wolseley: From Wittenoom to Broome, the coming of the Nomad,' Praxis M, no. 21 Robert Walker, Painters in the Australian Landscape, Hale & Ironmonger, Sydney David Hansen, The Face of Australia: Two hundred years of Australian art, Child and Associates, Sydney
1987	Terence Maloon, John Wolseley, From Wittenoom to Broome, (catalogue introduction), Joye Art Foundation Jan Minchin, ANZ Bicentennial Exhibition (catalogue entry), Melbourne
1985	Gary Catalano, Intimate Australia: The landscape and recent Australian art, Hale & Ironmonger, Sydney
1984	John Wolseley, From Bendigo to Kyoto (artist statement), Bendigo Art Gallery
1982	Sandra McGrath and John Olsen, The Artist and the Desert, Bay Books, Sydney
1981	`Wolseley on Wolseley,' Deakin University Press, Melbourne Janine Burke, Lost and Found, catalogue, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne
1979	John Wolseley, The Great Divide: The wood chip industry, La Trobe Valley Arts Centre
1978	Robin Wallace-Crabbe, `John Wolseley,' Art & Australia, vol. 16 no. 2