John Wolseley

The Wood, The World, and The Parrot

I stumbled across a plank of Huon Pine from Lake Pedder last year. It had a wonderful grain like Time's finger print. Out of it, gauging and scooping, I cut the images of several Red-Tailed Black-Cockatoos. And sometimes as my engraving tool moved across the sixteen thousand years of growth rings I felt within Time in some strange immanent sense.

—John Wolseley

Exhibition Dates: 7 September – 30 September 2006
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Song of sea, sand and salt - Monibeong, 2006
watercolour, graphite carbonised wood on paper
151.5 x 175.5 cm

Deep Time - Huon Pine, with Cockatoo Time Line, 2006
woodcut over watercolour, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
101 x 284.5 cm; (frame size)

The Wood the World and the Parrot - Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, 2006
woodcut over watercolour, graphite in and gouache on paper
101 x 284.5 cm; (frame size)
Edition of 5

Monsoon Hoopoe - Taman Negara, 2000-06
watercolour, graphite on paper
92 x 83.5 cm; (frame size)

Wind from the West - New Holland Honeyeater, 2006
watercolour on paper
64 x 81.5 cm; (frame size)

Musk Lorikeet 2 - Whipstick Forest, 2006
watercolour on paper
69.5 x 79 cm; (frame size)

Swift Parrot Diary - Whipstick Forest, 2006
watercolour on paper
61.5 x 102 cm; (frame size)

Musk Lorikeet 1 - Whipstick Forest, 2006
watercolour on paper
61.5 x 102 cm

Night Parrot/Rattlepod Grevillea, 2005
watercolour, graphite, carbonised wood on paper
66 x 85.5 cm; (frame size)

Dusky Grasswen/Desert Oak, 2005
watercolour, graphite, carbonised wood on paper
66 x 85.5 cm; (frame size)

Spotted Nightjar/Desert oak/Beefwood, 2005
watercolour, graphite, carbonised wood on paper
66 x 85.5 cm; (frame size)

Senna/Slaty-Backed Thornbill, 2005
watercolour, graphite, cabronised wood on paper
66 x 85.5 cm

Minni Ritchi/Singing Honeyeater, 2005
watercolour, graphite, carbonised wood on paper
66 x 85.5 cm; (frame size)

Spinifex/Minni Ritchi/Budgerigar, 2005
watercolour, graphite, carbonised wood on paper
66 x 85.5 cm

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John Wolseley One Hundred and One Insect Life Stories
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2019

Group Show, Marrma dilakmala lurruma gurra nathawu — Two Old Artists Looking for Food
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2015

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 Six Months in the National Park
Edmond Barton Room, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney, 2002

Group Show, The First 20 Years
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