1938
Born United Kingdom 1938
Educated Byam Shaw and St Martin's School of Art, London

1959
Lived in Paris, working with S.W. Hayter

1962
Lived in London, worked at Birgit Skiolds print workshop

1969
Moved back to west of England and began Nettlecombe Studios, an artists' and farmers' collective

1974-75
Spent six months in Spanish Pyrenees and went on expedition up the Skrang River, Borneo

1976
Settled in Australia. Artist-in-Residence, Newcastle CAE. Moved to Thorpedale, Gippsland. Lecturer, Gippsland CAE

1979-80
Artist-in-Residence, Deakin University, Geelong

1980
Travelled extensively in central Australia

1984
Travelled extensively in north-western Australia. Moved to Blue Mountains, NSW.

1987
Returned to St Kilda, Melbourne

1993
Five months in Tasmania

1994-95
Four months in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego charting Gondwana

1999
Extensive travel and painting in northern Australia and Indonesia

2002
Four months project in Royal National Park, NSW

2003-2005
Painting in Mallee and Sunset Country

2006
Project on Fences and Boundaries, Victoria/South Australia Border fence from the Murray River to the Sea
Great South West Walk Art Project
Currently lives and works in Whipstick Forest and St Kilda, Victoria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Travelling West to Sunset Tank, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne

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, Collingwood, Victoria

2003
Memory of Fire, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2002
Six months in the Royal National Park: Drawings and Paintings by John Wolseley, Edmond Barton Room, Sydney Grammar School,
7 - 13 September

2001
Tracing the Wallace Line, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
6 September - 30 September
Tracing the Wallace Line, Bendigo City Art Gallery, NSW
7 July - 12 August

1998
Land Marks, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne

1996
Patagonia to Tasmania: Origin Movement Species Tracing the Southern Continent, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston; Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

1993
Desert: A Catalogue of Hidden Things in Sand and Paper, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1993 Million Drawings: Being an Examination of Australia's Flora and Fauna Since the Proterozoic Era, Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery, Launceston
Simpson Desert Survey, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Paintings, lithographs and sedimentary prints from the Simpson Desert, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

1991
Life in Mud and Sand, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1989
The Pearl Fisher's Voyage from Ise Shima to Roebuck Bay and other recent paintings, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

1988
Nomadism: John Wolseley Twelve Years in Australia: Paintings and Drawings, University Gallery, University of Melbourne
From Wittenoom to Broome: Paintings of North Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

1987
From Wittenoom to Broome: Paintings of North Western Australia, Joye Art Foundation, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

1984
From Bendigo to Kyoto, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

1982
A Journey from Mt Solitary to the Charles River, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1980
The Larapinta Land Journey, Geelong Regional Art Gallery; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

1978
John Wolseley, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1974
Selected prints, South West Arts Council, touring exhibition in East Anglia

1971
John Wolseley, Mayor Gallery, London

1965
John Wolseley, Mayor Gallery, London

1962
A survey trip down the Dordogne in a collapsible dinghy, Architectural Association, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
A Bird in the Hand: Paintings by Tony Clark and John Wolseley, curated by Robyn McKenzie, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Sixth Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra

2005
Peter Lyssiotis and John Wolseley: the adventures of two artists in the State Library of Victoria, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Fire Works: Tracing the incendiary in Australian Art, Artspace Mackay (touring exhibition)

2004
2004: Australian Culture Now, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne
Place Made: Australian Print Workshop, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

2003
Bushfire: Our community responds, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Flies and Spiders, Newcontemporaries, Sydney
2002 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, 25 June - 28 July

2002-2003
Meridian: Currents in Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 28 November 2002 - 2 February 2003

2002
The Big River Show: Murrumbidgee Riverine, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Palæographica, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Common Ground, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, University of Woollongong

2001
Lie of the Land, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne

2000
Art & Land: Contemporary Australian Visions, Noosa Regional Gallery (and Asialink touring exhibition)
The Rose Crossing: Contemporary Art in Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney (and touring South East Asia)
Restricting the Palette, Colour and Land, Canberra School of Art Gallery

1999
Landscapes in Sets and Series, National Gallery of Victoria touring exhibition

1998
Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition touring Northern Europe

1997
A Constructed World (with Geoff Lowe), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
New Australian Images through British eyes, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Spirit & Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1996
Australian Watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition

1995
AMCOR Paper Awards, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne and touring
Seven Histories of Australia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
The Derwent Collection: Australian Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

1993
To the surface: Contemporary Landscape, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Poster Art in Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

1991
Indo-Eco, regional Victoria touring exhibition
Off the Wall, In the Air, A Seventies Selection, Monash University Gallery and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Two Hundred Years of Australian Painting, Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto, Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Diverse Visions, Queensland Art Gallery
Green Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1989
Michael Johnson, Bernard Sachs, John Wolseley, Joye Art Foundation at Galerie Baudouin Lebon, Paris

1988
The Face of Australia: The Land, the People, the Present, the Past, Australian Bicentennial Authority touring exhibition
A Changing Relationship: Aboriginal Themes in Australian Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1984
The centre: Works on paper by contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

1981
Landscape Art: Two Way Reaction, National Gallery of Australia at the Australian National University, Canberra

1980
Lost and Found, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne

1973
International Print Biennale, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Artist as Selector, Oxford City Art Gallery

1972
Florence Print Biennale, Florence, Italy
New Lane Gallery (with Print Workshop), Bradford, UK

1970
Krakow Print Biennale, Krakow, Poland

1969
Morley College (with Printmakers Council), UK

1966
Wardour Music Festival (with Noah Morris), Wardour, UK

1965
Prints 1965, AIA

1964
Prints 1964, Hambledon Gallery, Blandford (with Julian Trevelyan)
Centenary Exhibition,AIA, Californian Society of Etchers

1960
Royal Academy (also in 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971)

1959
London Group (also in 1960)

AWARDS / PRIZES
2005
Honorary degree, Doctor of Science, Macquarie University, Sydney
New Work Grant, Victorian Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council for the Arts
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, a project exploring the line of demarcation as described by 19th century botanist Alfred Wallace, which runs through the islands of Indonesia and marks the point where the flora and fauna of Australia gives way to that of Asia

1996
Winner, Trustees of Art Gallery of NSW Watercolour Prize

1992
Winner, Kedumba Art Award
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

COLLECTIONS
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
Cheltenham College, UK
City of Banyule, Melbourne
Coopers and Lybrand, Melbourne
Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK
Derwent Collection, Hobart
Joye Art Foundation, Sydney
Geelong Regional Gallery
Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale
Kedumba Art Award Collection, Blackheath
LaTrobe University, Melbourne
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
Mildura Arts Centre
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Melbourne Club
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran, Melbourne
State Bank Collection, Sydney
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
The Christensen Fund
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Girton College, Cambridge, UK
Harrogate Art Gallery, UK
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
Ministry of Works, London, UK
Newman College, Cambridge, UK
Nuffield Foundation, London, UK
Oxford City Art Gallery, UK
Sheffield Education Committee, UK
Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK

RESIDENCIES
2002
Art Fellow, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney

2001
Artist-in-residence, Wollongong University and Royal National Park, Sydney

1993
Artist-in-residence, Gorge Cottage and Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston

1988
Artist-in-residence, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

1983
Artist-in-residence, Bendigo City Art Gallery, Kyoto and Tokyo

1979-1980
Artist-in-residence, Deakin University, Geelong

1976
Artist-in-residence, Newcastle City Art Gallery and Gippsland City Art Gallery

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Sonia Payes, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne

2006
Sasha Grishin, John Wolseley: Land Marks II, Craftsman House, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne
Robyn McKenzie, A Bird in the Hand: Paintings by Tony Clark and John Wolseley, exhibition catalogue, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Alison Inglis, 'John Wolseley', Sixth Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra

2005
Website www.johnwolseley.net
Sasha Grishin, `Sacred Ecology', Australian Art Review, Issue 09, November 2005 - February 2006, pp. 55 - 57
John Hughes, `What Remains', Southerly, Vol 64, Number 2, 2004
Clare Williamson, John Hughes, Lost and Found, Peter Lyssiotis and John Wolseley: two artists¹ adventures in the State Library, State Library of Victoria
Peter Hylands and Jean-Pierre Chabrol, John Wolseley:The Smokers have taken the gold, DVD, Creative Cowboy Films, Melbourne
Robert Falso, John Wolseley: The Wallace Line, DVD, Double Life Films, Melbourne
Barry Hill, `Their throats, the artist's promise', in Island, 100, Autumn, p.159
Gavin Wilson, Fire Works: Tracing the incendiary in Australian Art, Artspace Mackay (touring exhibition)

2004
Ashley Crawford, `The harmonic patterns of Mallee birdsong', Sunday Age, 27 July 2004

2004: Australian Culture Now, exhibition catalogue, ed. Dr Charles Green, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne, p. 205
Paul Carter, “Bearing Witness to the Eyewitness”, Material Thinking, Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne
Greg Weight, Australian Artists: Portraits by Greg Weight, Chapter & Verse, Sydney

2003
Ashley Crawford, `John Wolseley', See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, editors Chris MacAuliffe and Sue Harvey, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Victoria, p. 146, p. 147
Jane Deeth, `A shared appreciation', (John Wolseley and Linda Fredheim), Object Magazine No. 42, June - July, p. 26 - 28

2002
John Wolseley, `Bushfire Journals', in HEAT 4. Burnt Ground, ed. Ivor Indyk, November 2002, pp. 113-143
Diana Wood Conroy, Common Ground, exhibition catalogue, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, University of Woollongong, pp. 4 - 7
Peter Hill, `John Wolseley', Meridian: Currents in Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2002

2001
John Wolseley and Paul Carter, `Tracing The Wallace Line,' (exhibition catalogue), Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Marina Mueke, `Art & Land: Contemporary Australian Visions,' eyeline special issue, Spring, p. 50

2000
John Wolseley, `Rock Wallaby Dreaming,' Art & Australia, vol. 37, no. 3
Jenny Gage, Restricting the Palette, Colour and Land, exhibition catalogue, Canberra School of Art Gallery
Laura Murray Cree & Neville Drury (eds), Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, Sydney

1999
The Rose Crossing: Contemporary Art in Australia, exhibition catalogue, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1998
Sasha Grishin, John Wolseley: Land Marks, Craftsman House, Sydney
Sasha Grishin, `The Journeys of John Wolseley', Art and Australia, Vol 36 No 1 pp 69-75
Murray Waldren, `Wolseley's Wonderland', The Australian Magazine, October 10-11, pp27-30

1997
Sasha Grishin, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: Artist printmakers 1990-1995, Craftsman House, Sydney
Gary Catalano, Building a Picture: Interviews with Australian Artists, McGraw-Hill, Sydney
Sasha Grishin, `John Wolseley: Journeys in the Antipodes', British Council/Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
Sasha Grishin, `Art into Landscapes: New Australian images through British Eyes', Humanities Research, Winter
Elizabeth Cross, `John Wolseley', Southern Reflections, Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition to Sweden

1996/7
Cath Lovitt & Kate Allen, `John Wolseley: A peripatetic interview,' The Interior, vol. 1, nos 9-10 RMIT, Melbourne

1996
Paul Carter, `The anxiety of clearings,' Patagonia to Tasmania: Origin, Movement, Species, Tracing the Southern Continents, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne and Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston

1995
Sasha Grishin, Australian Paper: AMCOR Paper Awards, (catalogue essay), Melbourne
Ramona Kovall, `Forces of Nature', The Age, 26 June, p 13

1994
Gary Catalano, `The sources of things: an interview with John Wolseley,' Art Monthly Australia, December, no. 76
John Wolseley, `Landscape - Inscape,' Our Common Ground: A celebration of art, place and environment, AILA, Hobart

1993
John Wolseley, Paintings, lithographs and sedimentary prints from the Simpson Desert, (artist statement), Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Ray Arnold, To the surface: Contemporary Landscape, (catalogue) Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart

1992
Alison Broinowski, The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne

1991
Janet Hawley, `John Wolseley: Brush with nature,' Good Weekend, 18 May
Bettina McAuley, Diverse Visions, catalogue entry, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

1990
John Wolseley, Notes about the installation `Deep Time Shallow Time: Journey from Ewaninga to Gosses Bluff,' Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1989
Michael Johnson, Bernhard Sachs, John Wolseley, exhibition catalogue, Joye Art Foundation at Baudouin Lebon, Paris

The pearl fisher's voyage from Ise Shima to Roebuck Bay, (artist statement) Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
`John Wolseley: Painting the outback,' Frontier Country, Australia's Outback Heritage, Vol. 1, Weldon Russell, Sydney

1988
Nomadism: John Wolseley, Twelve Years in Australia, exhibition catalogue, University Gallery, University of Melbourne
Charles Green, `Seduction in the Landscape,' Art & Australia, vol. 26 no. 2
Josko Petkovic, `John Wolseley: From Wittenoom to Broome, the coming of the Nomad,' Praxis M, no. 21
Robert Walker, Painters in the Australian Landscape, Hale & Ironmonger, Sydney
David Hansen, The Face of Australia: Two hundred years of Australian Art, Child and Associates, Sydney

1987
Terence Maloon, John Wolseley, From Wittenoom to Broome, (catalogue introduction), Joye Art Foundation
Jan Minchin, ANZ Bicentennial Exhibition (catalogue entry), Melbourne

1985
Gary Catalano, Intimate Australia: The landscape and recent Australian art, Hale & Ironmonger, Sydney

1984
John Wolseley, From Bendigo to Kyoto Exhibition Catalogue, Bendigo Art Gallery

1982
Sandra McGrath and John Olsen, The Artist and the Desert, Bay Books, Sydney

1981
John Wolseley`Wolseley on Wolseley,' Orienteering Deakin University Press, Geelong
Janine Burke, Lost and Found, catalogue, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne

1979
John Wolseley, The Great Divide: The wood chip industry, La Trobe Valley Arts Centre

1978
Robin Wallace-Crabbe, `John Wolseley,' Art & Australia, vol. 16 no. 2