Landmarks
In reference to his artwork published in the book "LANDMARKS".(This is the book we used as a reference in class.)In reference to his expedition into the Tasmanian Wilderness in 1994.It is Wolseley's method of work to arrive at a given site and to camp there for weeks or even months at a time.It is a strategy he uses to develop a closer relationship between the artist and nature.He keeps a journal and in it records his feelings and the observations he has made of the environment, plantforms and wildlife.Many of his works are done on numerous sheets of paper that are then stuck together.their joints remaining visible, yet the works can still be seen as a continual whole. His works are considered to be landscapes
His works invite the spectator to enter the works, to explore it and to discover new realities within it, a mixture of visual stimuli and textural observations. Wolseley in his depiction suggests to the viewer the possibility of seeing it in an almost primeval state. and can be interpreted from numerous points of view. Wolseley often incorporates one or a series of detailed analytical drawings of aspects of that environment, be it a single leaf, a tree, a branch rock formation or an insect study. All in all, Wolseleys artworks then can be described as a collaborative experience between the artist, the environment and nature. He has been known to use parts of photographs he has taken of the site in his works, but this has not been a common practice. His landscapes do not take on just a traditional form, nor are they just a collection of scientific observations, but are an integration of both. There is a mixture of aerial (as seen from above) observations, cartographic (map making) markings and often notes on the geographical formations. He uses line variation, thick and thinner lines, curved or straight lines and contoured lines, dots, numbers, individual letters, arrows, map markings, rectangles within rectangles and text. There is no one given interpretation. Combined with this, there are often small but very detailed studies of different parts of that environment, whether they are plantforms, rock formations or insect life. It is at the same time exotic and strangely familiar, suggesting perhaps that this wilderness may exist within us, as well as in physical nature. It is not a reading of nature but a collection of evocative observations which introduce the viewer to a certain slice of the environment and prompts them to see the world a little differently. Not only does Wolseley use paint and coloured ink washes, black ink pens, pencils and graphite in his artworks, but also uses coloured pencils, crayons and pastels to give definition to the final work.
Common topics in this essay:
Tasmanian Wilderness,
Australian Artist,
environment plantforms,
coloured ink,
map markings,
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