You’re invited to join us at Gippsland Art Gallery to hear from artist John Wolseley on his survey exhibition ‘John Wolseley: The Quiet Conservationist’. On exhibition this Summer, 2 December to 18 February 2024.

This exhibition presents works by celebrated English-born Australian artist John Wolseley, focussing on those created in the four years that he was living and working in the region (1976–1979), following his emigration to Australia in 1976 to join the teaching staff of the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (GIAE) in Churchill.

An unconventional artist in many respects, Wolseley shuns traditional approaches to depicting landscape. He engages instead in an organic visual dialogue with a location, which takes into account its history, geology, topography, flora and fauna.

The viewer is treated to a sprawling narrative of diary notes, sketches, watercolour studies and tracings—often combined into a single artwork.

Bookings appreciated.