When I am frottaging the engravings of beetles or the woodblocks cut out of ancient trees, I am not trying to consciously control the process. I’m allowing the maps of the life cycle of unknown beetles to float onto the paper.
—John Wolseley
Exhibition Dates: 21 March – 13 April 2019
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watercolour, carbonized wood, graphite and relief prints chine-colle on paper
114 x 225 cm
watercolour, carbonized wood, graphite and relief prints chine-colle on paper
153 x 346 cm
woodcut from King Billy Pine with watercolour
115 x 260 cm
Edition of 10
watercolour, graphite, woodcut on paper
124 x 445 cm
watercolour, etching and relief prints from found wood
74.5 x 44 cm
watercolour, etching and relief prints from found wood
76.5 x 48.5 cm
watercolour, etching and relief prints from found wood
54 x 67 cm
etching chine-colle over watercolour
35.5 x 47.5 cm
Edition of 10
etching with watercolour
30 x 40.5 cm
Edition of 15
etching and relief print from found wood chine-colle
30 x 40.5 cm
Edition of 15 + 2 A/Ps
watercolour and unique relief print from found wood chine-colle on paper
113 x 52 cm
three relief prints from found wood, chine-colle over watercolour
32 x 60 cm
Edition of 10
watercolour, etching and relief prints from found wood
70 x 45.5 cm
watercolour relief prints from found wood
114.5 x 174 cm
etching and relief print from found wood
82 x 14 cm
Edition of 20
etching and relief print from found wood
82 x 14 cm
Edition of 20
unique relief print with beetle engraved log
log: 50 x 30 x 30cm; print: 89 x 65cm
relief print, acrylic, antique bell jar
20 x 20 x 13 cm
beetle engraved branch and 31 graphite rubbings and relief prints from that branch
log 110 x 25 x 25cm, works on paper 103 x 191cm
French oak champagne riddler with 30 beetle engraved branches (blackwood, redgum, grey box, yellow gum)
two hinged panels at 149.5 x 72 x 5cm each; installation dimensions variable
French oak champagne riddler with 30 beetle engraved branches (blackwood, redgum, grey box, yellow gum)
two hinged panels at 149.5 x 72 x 5cm each; installation dimensions variable
tree trunk with graphite rubbing taken from that trunk
graphite rubbing 324 x 75cm; trunk 236 x 24 x 12cm
relief print found wood on Japanese tissue
30.5 x 40.5 cm each
unique relief print with Huon pine block
wood block: 35 x 30cm; print: 70 x 56cm
unique relief print with Huon pine block
wood block: 35 x 30cm; print: 70 x 56cm
cabinet with insectarium for housing beetles and their larvae, framed prints and four drawers containing prints and the logs from which they have been made. blackwood, eucalypt, plywood and horizontal scrub and relief prints. cabinet designed and made by Linda Fredheim Furniture Design, Hobart
150.5 x 35 x 44 cm
cabinet with insectarium for housing beetles and their larvae, framed prints and four drawers containing prints and the logs from which they have been made. blackwood, eucalypt, plywood and horizontal scrub and relief prints. cabinet designed and made by Linda Fredheim Furniture Design, Hobart
150.5 x 35 x 44 cm
watercolour and relief prints chine-colle on paper
95 x 76.5 cm
graphite rubbing from found wood with coloured pencil
35 x 88 cm
Edition of 10
John Wolseley is one of Australia’s most important artists. His work in watercolour, drawing, printmaking and installation over the last 40 years has been a meditation on how the earth is a dynamic system of which we are all a part of. Detailed studies of insects, botany, birdwatching and geology have been a preoccupation for most of his artistic practice. He portrays the Australian landscape and its ecosystems by combining collage elements and markings made ‘in collaboration’ with the natural environment. Wolseley’s works celebrate the beauty of the Australian wilderness and encourage an understanding of the significance of environmental fragility.
Exhibition view, John Wolseley, One Hundred and One Insect Life Stories, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (21 March – 13 April 2019)
Exhibition view, John Wolseley, One Hundred and One Insect Life Stories, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (21 March – 13 April 2019)
John Wolseley Doppelgänger, Lake Pedder, 2018; unique relief print with Huon pine block; wood block: 35 x 30cm, print: 70 x 56cm
John Wolseley The life of inland waters – Durabudboi river, 2015-2018; watercolour, graphite, woodcut on paper; 124 x 445 cm
John Wolseley A Natural History of Swamps I, Great Reed Warbler - Camargue, 2009/2010; watercolour on paper; 114 × 300cm
Exhibition view, John Wolseley, CARBONIFEROUS, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (9 September – 9 October 2010)
John Wolseley Ventifacts from Mallee Scrub after Fire, 2007-12; carbonised wood, natural ochres, watercolour on rag paper, dimensions variable; Installation view, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales (27 June – 16 September 2012); Photo: Ben Symons
John Wolseley One Hundred and One Insect Life Stories
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2019
John Wolseley Heartlands and Headwaters
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2015
John Wolseley all our relations
18th Biennale of Sydney, 2012
John Wolseley Carboniferous
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010
John Wolseley Natural Selection: MALLEE/MAQUIS
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2008
Group Show, STOLEN RITUAL
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006-07
John Wolseley The Wood, The World, and The Parrot
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006
John Wolseley Bird on a Wire
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Group Show, Dirty Dozen
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002
John Wolseley Tracing The Wallace Line
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2001
Group Show, A constructed world (in collaboration with John Wolsely)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1997
JOHN WOLSELEY
Born United Kingdom 1938
Educated Byam Shaw and St Martin's School of Art, London
Lived in Paris, working with S.W. Hayter
Lived in London, worked at Birgit Skiolds print workshop
Moved back to west of England and began Nettlecombe Studios, an artists' and farmers' collective
Spent six months in Spanish Pyrenees and went on expedition up the Skrang River, Borneo
Settled in Australia. Artist-in-Residence, Newcastle CAE. Moved to Thorpedale, Gippsland. Lecturer, Gippsland CAE
Artist-in-Residence, Deakin University, Geelong
Travelled extensively in central Australia
Travelled extensively in north-western Australia. Moved to Blue Mountains, NSW.
Returned to St Kilda, Melbourne
Five months in Tasmania
Four months in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego charting Gondwana
Extensive travel and painting in northern Australia and Indonesia
Four months project in Royal National Park, NSW
Painting in Mallee and Sunset Country
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
One hundred and One Insect Life Stories, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
John Wolseley and Mulkun Wirrpanda: Maypal - Molluscs and the Warming of the Seas, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Midawarr Harvest: The Art of Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne
Midawarr Harvest: The Art of Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
John Wolseley, Malle-Maquis-Desert-Rainforest 1990-2016, Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria
Marrma dilakmala larruma gurra ŋathawu – Two Old Artists Looking for Food, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Heartlands and Headwaters, NGV Australia, Melbourne
Carboniferous, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Natural Selection: MALLEE/MAQUIS, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Wood, The World and The Parrot, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Bird on a Wire, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Firebird, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
After the Fire, Leaf Surge, Seed Flight, New Growth, New Prints, Australian Galleries, Collingwood, Victoria
Memory of Fire, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Six months in the Royal National Park: Drawings and Paintings by John Wolseley, Edmond Barton Room, Sydney Grammar School, 7 - 13 September
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
Land Marks, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
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
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
Life in Mud and Sand, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
The Pearl Fisher's Voyage from Ise Shima to Roebuck Bay and other recent paintings, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
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
From Wittenoom to Broome: Paintings of North Western Australia, Joye Art Foundation, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
From Bendigo to Kyoto, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
A Journey from Mt Solitary to the Charles River, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
The Larapinta Land Journey, Geelong Regional Art Gallery; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
John Wolseley, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Selected prints, South West Arts Council, touring exhibition in East Anglia
John Wolseley, Mayor Gallery, London
John Wolseley, Mayor Gallery, London
A survey trip down the Dordogne in a collapsible dinghy, Architectural Association, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007 - 2017, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
Midawarr - Harvest Series: Woodcuts by Mulkun Wirrapanda and John Wolseley, Tactile Arts Gallery and Studio, Darwin
RAAKLIJNEN, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, Ghent, Belgium
Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
International Print Exhibition, Australia and Japan, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
one of each, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
The Skullbone Experiment, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations, curated by Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster, Sydney
Djalkiri- We are Standing on Their Names - Blue Mud Bay (touring); Nyinkka Nyunyu Art & Culture Centre , Tennant Creek, Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Geelong Art Gallery , Geelong, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie, UTS Gallery, Sydney.
Picturing the Great Divide: Visions from Australia's Blue Mountains, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba
Reframing Darwin: evolution and art in Australia, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Refugia: Siobhan Murphy, Dominic Redfern and John Wolseley, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, curated by Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane
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
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: 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
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
Meridian: Currents in Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 28 November 2002 - 2 February 2003
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
Lie of the Land, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
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
Landscapes in Sets and Series, National Gallery of Victoria touring exhibition
Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition touring Northern Europe
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
Australian Watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition
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
To the surface: Contemporary Landscape, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Poster Art in Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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
Michael Johnson, Bernard Sachs, John Wolseley, Joye Art Foundation at Galerie Baudouin Lebon, Paris
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
The centre: Works on paper by contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Landscape Art: Two Way Reaction, National Gallery of Australia at the Australian National University, Canberra
Lost and Found, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne
International Print Biennale, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Artist as Selector, Oxford City Art Gallery
Florence Print Biennale, Florence, Italy
New Lane Gallery (with Print Workshop), Bradford, UK
Krakow Print Biennale, Krakow, Poland
Morley College (with Printmakers Council), UK
Wardour Music Festival (with Noah Morris), Wardour, UK
Prints 1965, AIA
Prints 1964, Hambledon Gallery, Blandford (with Julian Trevelyan)
Centenary Exhibition, AIA, Californian Society of Etchers
Royal Academy (also in 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971)
London Group (also in 1960)
AWARDS / PRIZES
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
Trustees of Art Gallery of New South Wales, Watercolour Prize
Creative Fellowship, State Library of Victoria
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
Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize
Winner, Kedumba Art Award
Inaugural recipient, Mobil Print Award, Australian Print Workshop
Awarded VACB fellowship to explore Simpson Desert
Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize
Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize
Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize
Awarded Visual Arts Board grant to explore George Gill and Peterman Ranges, N.T.
Winner, Alice Prize
Winner, Latrobe Valley SEC Prize
Winner, Capital Permanent Prize, Geelong
Winner, Kantos Prize, Florence Print Biennale
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
Art Fellow, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney
Artist-in-residence, Wollongong University and Royal National Park, Sydney
Artist-in-residence, Gorge Cottage and Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Artist-in-residence, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artist-in-residence, Bendigo City Art Gallery, Kyoto and Tokyo
Artist-in-residence, Deakin University, Geelong
Artist-in-residence, Newcastle City Art Gallery and Gippsland City Art Gallery
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