John Wolseley: The Quiet Conservationist & Ann Greenwood: Following Threads
When John Wolseley arrived in Australia in 1976, he was already a well-trained and well-established thirty-eight-year-old English painter and printmaker with numerous exhibitions to his credit. He had trained at art schools in London, Byam Shaw and the St Martin’s, then worked with S.W. Hayter in Paris, and later at the Birgit Skiöld’s print workshop […]
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John Wolseley: Intelligence with the Earth
“I suppose it all started when my mother committed suicide, when I was five.” John speaks deeply, slowly, every word heavy with the weight of a lifetime. Boulders roll off his tongue with heart-knocking profundity, and yet he is impossibly eloquent, sentences feather-light and frank. John tells me about the origins of his love for the […]
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Birds & Language
Wollongong derives its name for the local Dharawal word “Woolungah,” and the city’s Gallery is an apt venue for the exhibition Birds & Language given its location at the head of the long, narrow coastal strip of Illawarra, which supports some 350 bird species. Unfortunately, timber-felling in the region was an early industry of such […]
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Issue 2
Featuring John Wolseley Also Inside Marea Gazzard Kathryn Smith Vernon Ah Kee Selina Ou Richard Lewer Timothy Ralph Sean Scully Plus Essay, Reviews and News Sebastian Smee on Art’s Grey Scale
