Painter, printmaker and installation artist John Wolseley was born in Somerset, England. He studied at St Martins School of Art between 1957 and 1958, the Byam Shaw School of Art, London, in printmaking from 1958 to 1963 and later in Paris between 1961 and 1963. He lived and worked throughout Europe before relocating to Australia in 1976, where he travelled extensively through the outback. He has been artist in residence at studios at Deakin University, Bendigo, the Joye Art Foundation, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and George Cottage Launceston, and has taught painting in Northern Territory Communities since 1978. Wolseley has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra and survey exhibitions of his work have been held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Wolseley is the previous recipient of the Geelong Gallery Capital Permanent Acquisition Award in1979, the Art Gallery of New South Wales Trustees watercolour prize in 1982, 1985, 1988, 1995 and 2004; and the Alice Prize in 1982, 1985, 1988, 1996, 2004. He received a bicentennial commission from the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1988, and Australia Council Grant in 1998 and an Honorary PhD in Science from Macquarie University in 2005. His work is represented by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; most state galleries, Parliament House, Canberra; several regional and tertiary collections and internationally in collections in England and Yugoslavia. A monograph of his work was published in 1998, and a collection of artworks accompanied by poetry ‘Lines for birds’ was published in 2011.
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Image above: Sue Anderson Tree-top Rosellas 2018 lithograph edition 15 60 x 46 cm Members of the Victorian Forest Alliance, …
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John Wolseley is included in the current exhibition, The National 2021, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. The …
Above image: Indian Sketchbook 1 water colour and gouache 70 cm x 30 cm Dr. Maryanne Coutts will share her …
Above Image: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Michael Snape Become The Part 2022 200 cm x 100 cm x 300 cm Congratulations …
Above image: Terry Matassoni Lockdown 2021-22 pencil on paper 76 x 102 cm Congratulations to Maryanne Coutts and …
Above Image: Camie Lyons ‘Path of a Meandering Soul’ bronze 2021 700 cm x 300 cm The Langham, Gold …
Jenny Rodgerson Self portrait 2022 oil on linen Congratulations to Jenny Rodgerson and Christine Wrest-Smith who have been selected …
Peter Wegner Bill Gregory 2022 Benalla 2022 pencil and beeswax on paper 64 x 48 cm In July, Benalla Art …
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Above image: Janet Luxton On Mount Olympus 2022 oil on Belgian linen 150 x 130 cm Congratulations to Janet Luxton …
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