JOHN WOLSELEY
Born 1938

PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF MRS RUA OSBORNE, NSW

JOHN WOLSELEY

Born 1938
A Natural History of Sand Dunes, Arrerente Desert 1992-1993

watercolour, colour pencil, gouache, graphite and ink on paper
signed, dated and inscribed '12 September 91. Changes at the Northern end of this longitudinal / dune. Here there are small semi - crescent dunes and blowing / on these ' Barchans.' The wind has been westerly. Recently / the prevailing wind direction has tended to be from the East / And already the slip faces of the more Northerly dunes has been reversed / John Wolseley 92 - 93' lower left
86 x 141 cm (irregular)

Provenance

Mrs Rua Osborne, New South Wales
Private Collection, New South Wales

Exhibited

John Wolseley - Paintings, Lithographs and Sedimentary Prints from the Simpson Desert, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, September - October, 1993, illustrated
Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Artists, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 13 March - 19 April 1998, Konstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark, 1 July - 30 August 1998, Museum Tamminiementie, Helsinki, Finland, 1 - 30 September 1998, Konsthallen, Gothenberg, Sweden, 2 November - 6 December 1998, no. 45

Literature

Paintings, lithographs and sedimentary prints from the Simpson Desert, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, September - October 1993
Simpson Desert Survey, Australian Print Workshop,
Elizabeth Cross (ed.), Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Artists, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, p. 58