Artist John Wolseley on adventure, painting and our need to connect with the earth. Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% John Wolseley at work See an excerpt from an upcoming NGV documentary showing artist John Wolseley at work in his studio near Bendigo.
John Wolseley: Carboniferous. The works in this exhibition trace the stages of a three year transition in my painting life from the dry Mallee Country of Northern Victoria to the wetlands of New South Wales and the swamps of the Camargue in Southern France.
During this time, I spent many months camping and drawing in areas of remnant scrub in both wetlands and drylands. In this article JOHN WOLSELEY writes about his exhibition Carboniferous (Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery: September / October 2010) and, in a short clip, JOHN and PETER HYLANDS discuss the relationship between art and science. When working on Murray Sunset Refugia with Ventifacts 2008/2009, I found a secret island of unburnt scrub remaining after the bushfires. Nocookies. You have cookies turned off To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser.
To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below. Facebook App: Open links in External Browser There is a specific issue with the Facebook in-app browser intermittently making requests to websites without cookies that had previously been set. John Wolseley - artist, explorer, environmental activist. "HELLO, HELLO, HELLO" the voice booms from the intercom in disembodied Python parody.
"John Wolseley here. " He buzzes the security door, then leans over an internal balcony rail to guide me in sepulchral tones as I enter the courtyard. The building, a block of half a dozen flats, is imposing in its faded grandeur, a renovator's delight for its old world standards and touches. It's an apt metaphor, in microcosm, for the enveloping Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, itself in uneasy transition between boutiquification and bohemian basicness.
And as I discover over the next few hours, it's particularly suited as an environment for the artist I've come to meet. Biennale Of Sydney. The 18th edition of the Biennale of Sydney (BoS), titled “all our relations,” crept into town in late June with very little fanfare as the laid back artistic directors, indigenous Canadian Gerald McMaster and Catherine de Zegher from Belgium, delivered their utopian vision of contemporary art practice that has the power to connect communities, foster collaboration, create dialogue and, it seems, cure the world’s ills.
This is the first time in the Biennale’s 39-year history that a curatorial duo has held the reins and one wonders if collaboration here might be a euphemism for compromise. What might have been a juggernaut in the hands of one artistic director—one thinks of the previous BoS in the hands of David Elliott or the stimulating challenges of the 2008 edition presented by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, both which achieved record breaking crowds—here proves to be a show that limps along as it explores an at times dense intellectual premise. Seederssprouters. John. Buku5. Artist John Wolseley on adventure, painting and our need to connect with the earth. At Design and Art Australia Online. John Wolseley was born in Great Britain in 1938.
He studied at the Byam Shaw and St. Martin’s School of Art in London, which is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading arts and design institutions. In 1959 he lived in Paris and worked at Atelier 17 with S.W. Hayter, who was a highly influential printmaker of the twentieth century. After working at the Birgit Skiolds print workshop in London in 1962, he later moved to the west of England and founded Nettlecombe Studios, a collective for artists and farmers based at his ancestral home. Through various later projects, Wolseley continued to assume the role of an explorer in seeking new locations and embarking upon the study of landscapes and threatened ecosystems. Since his work was first exhibited at the London Group in 1959, followed by the Royal Academy in 1960, Wolseley’s work has appeared in a long list of solo and group exhibitions.
Writers: ecwubben Date written: John Wolseley: Art and nature. Nocookies. Artist John Wolseley on adventure, painting and our need to connect with the earth. DOCUMENTARY - John Wolseley. John Wolseley - Artist Profile. 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.
John Wolseley. Over the past four years John Wolseley has explored the wetlands of Australia in a major series of new works commissioned by Sir Roderick Carnegie.
John Wolseley.