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John Wolseley |
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Seawrack Tide After Tide - Baniyala, Edition 50, colour etching, 49 x 61.5cm (image) 68 x 78cm (sheet), Market value: $1700 |
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Artist's Statement |
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This etching was made at Baniyala (Blue Mud Bay) in East Arnhemland. I was there for several weeks with Fiona Hall, Judy Watson as the guests of the Community october 2009. All the objects were gathered beside the Bay, and represent the seawrack which is on the edge of the sea. Great Yolngu artists with whom we worked like Djambawa Marawili and Mulkan Wirrpanda ( who has adopted me as Wawa or brother) told me the uses and metaphorical significance of the seeds, plants, turtle shells (the mottled black and white images in the etching) and other specimens For instance the small mangrove leaf in the work in the middle looks rather like a sting ray, and Yolgnu children play with them and reenact the mythic stories about a giant stingray which in the' ' first morning' or Dreamtime surged up into the land and created significant formations in the land. There are also Magpie goose and brolga crane feathers, and the burnt 'hands of sand palms. |
www.johnwolesley.net.au
1938 Born United Kingdom
Lives Whipstick Forest, Bendigo and St Kilda. |
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Recent Solo Exhibitions |
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2008 Natural Selection - Mallee/Maquis, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2007 Traveling West to Sunset Tank, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Collingwood.
2007 Landmarks II Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Collingwood.
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
Works on Paper, Melbourne
2003 Memory of Fire, Australian Galleries Works on Paper Melbourne
2001 Tracing the Wallace Line, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo and
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1998 Land Marks, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
1996 Patagonia to Tasmania: Origin Movement Species Tracing the Southern Continents, Queen Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, Launceston, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne |
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Recent Group Exhibitions |
2010 Bushfire Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Melbourne.
2009 Refugia:Siobhan Murphy, Dominic Redfern, John Wolseley, Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura
2009 Reframing Darwin Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne.
2008 The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2007 Walk, NETS touring exhibition
2006 A Bird in the Hand: Paintings by Tony Clark and John Wolseley, curated by Robyn McKenzie Latrobe University Visual Arts Centre Bendigo and AGNSW, Sydney
2006 Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006 Sixth Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra
2005 Peter Lyssiotis and John Wolseley State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2005 Fire Works: Tracing the incendiary in Australian Art, Artspace Mackay (touring exhibition) 2004 2004: Australian Culture Now, NGV, Melbourne
2004 Place Made: Australian Print Workshop, NGA, Canberra
2003 Bushfire: Our community responds, NGV, Melbourne
2003 Meridian: Currents in Australian Art, MCA, Sydney,
2002 The Big River Show: Murrumbidgee Riverine, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2002 Palæographica, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001 Lie of the Land, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
2000 Art & Land: Contemporary Australian Visions, Noosa Regional Gallery (touring exhibition)
2000 The Rose Crossing: Contemporary Art in Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney (and touring South East Asia)
1999 Landscapes in Sets and Series, NGA (touring exhibition)
1998 Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, AGNSW (touring exhibition) 1997 Spirit & place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, MCA, Sydney
1996 Australian Watercolours, AGNSW (touring exhibition)
1996 Seven Histories of Australia, ACCA, Melbourne |
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Awards/Prizes |
2005 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science, Macquarie University, Sydney
2005 New Work Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts
2005 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,
1996 Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize
1992 Winner, Kedumba Art Award
1992 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 |
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Collections |
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John Wolseley's work is held at the NGA and all State and Territories Galleries and numerous Public and Private Collections. |
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