John Wolseley

Education resource pack

The essential resource for the senior school art curriculum

JOHN WOLSELEY arrived in Australia in 1976 and since then has painted all over Australia from the central deserts to the forests of Tasmania.

Much of JOHN’s work has focused on the evolution of the earth’s surface culminating in exhibitions such as Tasmania to Patagonia, Tracing the Southern Continents, Tracing the Wallace Line and Carboniferous.

In July 2010 a major article on JOHN’s recent work was featured in Australian Art Collector (Issue 33). In 2005, JOHN was made an Honorary Doctor of Science by Macquarie University and was also awarded the Visual Art Emeritus Award by the Australia Council.

In this education resource pack we ask you to consider the conceptual processes that are the very beginnings of the creative process, we ask you to think about the making and techniques that turn the work into a physical object and the philosophy and the science that give the work meaning. We also take you through the journey of curating and staging a major exhibition called Ware & Tear.

BETTY CHURCHER opens the exhibition and we talk to some of the other contributing artists. JOHN WOLSELEY demonstrates the way he works in the landscape.

Packed with JOHN’s goodies, this multi DVD/CD film pack contains great films starring JOHN WOLSELEY, The smokers have taken the gold, The Wallace Line and The artists’ lunch. In addition to the films the resource pack features material on curating a major exhibition, a JOHN WOLSELEY master class, poetry readings in the desert, profiles of other artists, a virtual exhibition tour, organizing an exhibition opening, building an exhibition website and sales and marketing strategy.

The resource book contains extracts from JOHN WOLSELEY’s field diary and commentary from curator and artist ANDREA HYLANDS. JOHN WOLSELEY is a powerful communicator and the films and notes in this teacher resource pack are full of JOHN’s wisdom about the planet on which we live.

Contemporary art, science, geography and philosophy, it’s all here! There is a lot to explore here and the John Wolseley education resource pack will provide a great depth of information and plenty of material for serious study and lively discussion.

Contents

Disc one: DVD format

The smokers have taken the gold; a short film of John painting in the desert and a poetry reading of JOHN SHAW NEILSON’s poems by the campfire.

Disc two: DVD format

The Wallace Line; The artists’ lunch; BETTY CHURCHER opening the Ware & Tear exhibition; short films of John’s co-exhibitors in Ware & Tear Appearances by JOHN WOLSELEY, BETTY CHURCHER, ROBERT JACKS, ALEX SELENITSCH, BEN KEITH, ANDREA HYLANDS, JULIE GOUGH, CLIVE WILLMAN and PETER HYLANDS.

Disc three: CD format

Education resource book in PDF format; complete Ware & Tear website; virtual tour of Ware & Tear exhibition; Ware & Tear slide show; the portfolio – a high resolution image of a JOHN WOLSELEY painting. NOTE QuickTime is required to run this CD.