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  • Title: 101 Insect Life Stories – no 5 – Wood-boring Weevil
  • Artist: John Wolseley
  • Region: Victoria
  • Art Centre: Independent artist
  • Medium: Woodblock print
  • Collection: The Midawarr – Harvest Series
  • Dimensions: 21.5 x 30 cm
  • Edition Size: 10
  • Price ($AUD): $ 975 Framed

Artwork Story

Found wood relief print, chine-collé over coloured pencil.

 

The Midawarr – Harvest Series suite of woodblocks is the outcome of collaboration between Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley. Wirrpanda is a senior female artist for the Dhudi-Djapu clan from Dhuruputjpi. Wirrpanda is a leader of her clan and has a lifetime’s knowledge of her country, which is distilled into her art.

 

Wolseley has lived and worked all over the continent and is known for his large scale works on paper which relate the minutiae of plant, bird and insect to the greater movements of the earth’s geological and ecological systems.

 

Wolseley and Wirrpanda first met in 2009 in Baniyala, east Arnhem Land. Both artists were part of a group of Yolngu and visiting artists working on the cross-cultural project and touring exhibition Djalkiri: we are standing on the their names   Blue Mud Bay organised by Nomad Art Productions in Darwin.

 

Since 2009 they have spent a week or two together each year in the Miwatj region in Midawarr, the harvest season. The two have hunted rare plants, painted them; and eaten the unique tropical yams and tubers. Wirrpanda has now compiled comprehensive series of barks and larrakitj about the poorly recognised food plants of northeast Arnhem Land. Her mission is to renew the knowledge of these plants for future generations. Since 2009 John Wolseley has also been making woodcuts and large works on paper about the same plants and landscape.

 

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