Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Bibliography

'A Bird in the Hand: Paintings by Tony Clark and John Wolseley', exhibition catalogue, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
'A Bird in the Hand: Paintings by Tony Clark and John Wolseley', exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Arnold, Ray; (curator), To the Surface: Contemporary Landscape, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, 1993
Broinowski, Alison; The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992
Burke, Janine; Lost and Found, exhibition catalogue, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, 1980
Carmichael, Rodick (ed.); Orienteering: Painting in the landscape: Carmichael, Makin, Wolseley, Deakin University Press, Geelong, 1982, pp. 118-61
Carter, Paul; The Lie of the Land, exhibition catalogue, 2001
Carter, Paul; (catalogue essay), “The anxiety of clearings”, John Wolseley: Patagonia to Tasmania, Origin Movement Species tracing the Southern Continents, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston / Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, 1996
Catalano, Gary; Building a Picture: Interviews with Australian artists, McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 1997, pp. 110-24
Catalano, Gary; “The sources of things: An interview with John Wolseley”, Art Monthly, December 1994, no. 76, pp. 18-21
Catalano, Gary; Intimate Australia: The landscape and recent Australian art, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1985, pp. 102-7
Clabburn, Anna; “Capturing Spirits”, The Age, October 14, 1998
Deeth, Jane; “A shared appreciation”, Object 42, Sydney, 2003
Flynn, Paul; “John Wolseley: Natural convictions”, Artist Profile, Summer 2007, pp. 28 - 37
Gage, Jenny; Restricting the Palette, Colour and Land, exhibition catalogue, Canberra School of Art, 2000
Green, Charles; “Seduction in the Landscape”, Art and Australia, (1988) vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 290-95
Grishin, Sasha; John Wolseley: Land Marks, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1998
Grishin, Sasha; “Art into landscapes: New Australian images through British eyes”, Humanities Research, Winter, 1997, pp. 46-58
Grishin, Sasha; (catalogue essay), John Wolseley: Journeys in the Antipodes, British Council / Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 1997
Grishin, Sasha; Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: Artist printmakers 1990 – 1995, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997, pp. 324-25
Grishin, Sasha; (catalogue essay), Australian Paper: AMCOR Paper Awards, Melbourne, 1995 
Hansen, David; The Face of Australia: Two hundred years of Australian art, Child and Associates, Sydney, 1988, pp. 90 – 91
Hawley, Janet; “John Wolseley: Brush with nature”, The Age, Good Weekend Magazine, 18 May 1991, pp. 10-17
Hill, Barry; “Holding Landscapes: John Wolseley’s Mapping into Australia”, Heat 14, Sydney, 2007, pp. 205-236
Hill, P.; “John Wolseley”, in Meridian: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2002
 “John Wolseley: Painting the Outback”, Frontier Country, Australia’s Outback Heritage, vol. 1, Weldon Russell, Sydney, 1989, pp. 160 - 61
John Wolseley; the smokers have taken the gold, DVD, Creative Cowboys Films, 2005
Hughes, J.; “What Remains”, Southerly, vol 64, no. 2, 2004, pp. 43-55
Long, Jennifer and Petkovic, Josko; (catalogue essays), Nomadism: John Wolseley: Twelve Years in Australia - paintings and drawings, University Gallery, University of Melbourne, 1988
Lovitt, Cath; and Allen, Kate; “John Wolseley: A peripatetic interview”, The Interior, vol. 1, no. 9-10, 1996/1997, pp. 63-66
MacAuley, Bettina; (catalogue entry), Diverse Visions, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1991
Maloon, Terence; (catalogue essay), John Wolseley: From Wittenoom to Broome – Paintings of North West Australia 1984 – 1987, Australian Art Foundation / Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 1987
McGrath, Sandra and Olsen, John; The Artist and the Desert, Bay Books, Sydney, 1981, pp. 166-71
McKenzie, Robyn; ‘Birds, Real and Dreamt, Look, Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, Dec 2006/Jan 2007, pp. 31-33
Minchin, Jan; (catalogue entry), Michael Johnson, Bernhard Sachs, John Wolseley, Joye Art Foundation at Baudoin Ledon, Paris, 1989
Minchin, Jan; (catalogue entry), ANZ Bicentennial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1987
Murray Cree, Laura and Drury, Neville (eds); Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2000
Painting Australia; Bendigo, ABC television, 27 March 2007
Petkovic, Josko; “John Wolseley: From Wittenoom to Broome – The Coming of the Nomad”, Praxis M, (1998) vol. 21, pp. 23-29
Smith, Bernard; Smith, Terry; and Heathcote, Christopher; Australian Painting 1788 – 2000, Oxford University Press, 2001
Smith, Amanda; The Deep End, (radio interview) Radio National, November 24, 2006
The Rose Crossing:  Contemporary Art in Australia, exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 1999
Waldren, Murray; “Wolseley’s Wonderland”, The Australian Magazine, October 10-11, 1998, pp. 27-30
Walker, Robert; Painters in the Australian Landscape, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1988, pp. 150-59
Wallace-Crabbe, Robin; “John Wolseley”, ART and Australia, (1978) vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 137-44
Wolseley, John; “Bushfire Diaries”, Heat 7, Sydney, 2002
Wolseley, John; “The artist and the leaf”, Getting the Measure, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2002
Wolseley, John; and Carter, Paul; Tracing the Wallace Line, (catalogue) Bendigo Art Gallery Victoria, 2001
Wolseley, John; Rock Wallaby Dreaming, Art and Australia vol. 37, 2000
Wolseley, John; (artist’s statement), “Paintings, lithographs and sedimentary prints from the Simpson Desert”, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 1993
Wolseley, John; “Notes about the installation ‘Deep Time Shallow Journey: Journey from Ewaninga to Gosses Bluff’”, Melbourne, 1990
Wolseley, John; (artist’s statement), “The pearl fisher’s voyage from Ise Shima to Roebuck Bay, and other recent paintings”, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 1989
Wolseley, John; (artist’s statement), “From Bendigo to Kyoto”, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1984
Wolseley, John; The Great Divide: The wood chip industry, La Trobe Valley Arts Centre, 1979
Wolseley, John; “Landscape – Inscape”, in Our Common Ground: A celebration of Art, Place and Environment, de Gryse, Jerry and Sant, Andrew (eds.), The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (Tasmania) and The Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania (CES Occasional Paper 25), Hobart, 1994, pp. 80-99
Wolseley, John; “Questing scholars, drifting fences and restless parrots”, ‘Lost and Found, Peter Lyssiotis and John Wolseley, the adventures of two artists in the State Library of Victoria’ exhibition catalogue, 2005
Wood Conroy, Diana; Common Ground, catalogue essay, University of Wollongong at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 2002

Awards

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Arts Council of Great Britain
Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra
BHP Collection, Melbourne
Cheltenham College
Contemporary Arts Society London
Coopers and Lybrand Collection
Derwent Collection, Hobart
Girton College, Cambridge
Harrogate Art Gallery
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
Huddersfield Art Gallery
Joye Art Foundation, Sydney
Kedumba Art Award, Blackheath
Latrobe University Art Collection, Melbourne
Ministry of Works, London
Museum and National Gallery of Northern Territory
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newnham College, Cambridge
Nuffield Foundation, London
Oxford City Art Gallery
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Sheffield Education Committee
State Bank Collection, Sydney
State Library of Victoria
Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran
The Christensen Fund
University of Tasmania Art Collection, Hobart
Usher Gallery, Lincoln


Photograph courtesy of Greg Weight