JOHN WOLSELEY - The Magnificent Return of Bilbies, Bettongs and Hare Wallabies to Newhaven
Tree Creepers of the Banyena River Ed: 30 variable, 2024
Etching with Watercolour and Woodcut Chine-Colle
47 x 35.5 cm
John Wolseley
The Magnificent Return of Bilbies, Bettongs
and Hare Wallabies to Newhaven
6 March - 6 April 2025
Opening Event: 2pm Saturday 8 March 2025
‘My life has been a wonderful rampage through about six or seven of the great print workshops studios… I have always been obsessed with printmaking.’
- John Wolseley 2025
Arguably one of Australia’s leading visual artists, John Wolseley has a genuinely unshakeable respect for ecological interdependency of all sentient creatures, evidenced in his lifelong artistic outpouring. In the process of making art, especially works on paper, he has continuously championed wildlife conservation highlighting both the importance of habitat and his love of printmaking.
‘True marvel’, IMPRINT, Autumn 2025, Vol.60 No.1
Wolseley’s recent body of work incorporates etchings of the Bettongs, Bilbies and Tree Creepers, exquisitely drawn copper plates by Wolseley. Studio assistant and printmaker, Kaitlyn Gibson proofs the plates at the John Wolseley Whipstick Forest Studio and Print Workshop and then the plates are passed onto printmaker, Jeff Gardner at Cascade Print Workshop, who prints the editions using 300 gsm Hahnemühle etching paper.
In 2005, Wolseley received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from Macquarie University and the Australian Council Visual Arts Emeritus Award.
Kareen Anchen – Gallery Director
Cascade Art, 2025