Australian Galleries

John Wolseley

United Kingdom

D.O.B: 21/06/1938

John Wolseley settled in Australia in 1976. Since then he has had numerous exhibitions; each one a survey and distillation of a particular landscape or ecosystem. In these large installations he relates the microcosm of plant, bird and animal to the abstract dimensions of geology and the earth’s dynamic systems.
In this NGURRA series he has focused on how particular mammals and reptiles dwell within the landscape, and how they create and construct their architectures of dwelling – mounds, burrows, warrens, lairs and nests. John Wolseley’s work can be found in all state galleries in Australia and numerous public and private collections. He has an honorary Doctorate of Science from Macquarie University, Sydney and is a recipient of the Emeritus Medal from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. He is represented in Melbourne by Australian Galleries and in Sydney by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

Australian Galleries

Australian Galleries

John Wolseley

United Kingdom

Artworks By John Wolseley

Tree-creepers of the Banyena River, 2024

Tree-creepers of the Banyena River, 2023-24

The Dune remains the same, only the margin changes, 1992-93

The Bilby returns – Great Sandy Desert, 2024

Termitaria Indwelling V, 2024

Palimpsest of tracks and spoors; Watikinpirri – Warrarna, Mirnirra, Nini, and Wirlana, 2024

Ngurra – Dwelling; Great Desert Skink – Watikinpirri, 2024

Military Dragons in the Tanami desert, 2023

Mayfly hatch with Pale Morning Duns, Blue-winged Olives, Green Drakes and Caddis Flies, 2018-22

Mayfly hatch with Pale Morning Duns, Blue-winged Olives, Green Drakes and Caddis Flies, 2018-22

Lustful bettongs returning to Watikinpirri – Newhaven II, 2024

Lustful bettongs returning to Watikinpirri – Newhaven I, 2024

Greater Bilby’s burrow under the desert oaks, 2024

Great Sandy Desert – the burrows of the Thorny Devils usually face south, 2023-24

Great Desert Skink emerges from its long winter sleep, 2024

Cryptic mimicry of the Tawny Frogmouth II, 2024

Cryptic mimicry of the Tawny Frogmouth, 2024

Cryptic mimicry of the Leaf-tailed Gecko, 2024

Cryptic Mimicry of the Doritz’s Lizard, 2024

Cassia and bastard melon – Papunya, 2024

Burrowing Bettongs return, Watikinpirri, 2024

Burrowing Bettongs return to Watikinpirri – Newhaven, 2024

Burrowing Bettongs return to their ancestral warrens, Watikinpirri – Newhaven II, 2024

Burrowing Bettongs return to their ancestral warrens, Watikinpirri – Newhaven I, 2024

Burrowing Bettongs by their Burrows – Newhaven, NT, 2024

Burrowing Bettong by its warren in the calcrete rocks, 2024

Basking mound, birthing pool and communal latrine of the Great Desert Skink – Watikinpirri, 2024

Australasian Grebes on the Witjibar River with lacustrine insects, 2018-22

Australasian Grebes on the Witjibar River with lacustrine insects, 2018-22

Ant nest in a termite mound, 2023

Ancestral warren of Burrowing Bettongs in the calcrete rocks, Watikinpirri – Newhaven II, 2023-24

Ancestral warren of Burrowing Bettongs in the calcrete rocks, Watikinpirri – Newhaven, 2023-24

All Time – Wind conceals and reveals, 1992-93

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