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 John Wolseley The smokers have taken the gold In this film John Wolseley explores new ways of drawing and discovers a settler’s fence in the desert. John Wolseley arrived in Australia in 1976 and since then has painted all over Australia from the central deserts to the forests of Tasmania. Much of John’s recent work has focused on the evolution of the earth’s surface culminating in exhibitions such as Tasmania to Patagonia, Tracing the Southern Continents and Tracing the Wallace Line. John Wolseley visits the desert country in Australia with the creative cowboy team to demonstrate how he works in the landscape. This warm and wonderful film is full of John’s wisdom about art and the environment. ‘We met John in a pub, in a town called Rainbow, and travelled back to his camp in the middle of Wyperfeld National Park. I would like you to picture Wyperfeld, an island of great biodiversity in an ocean of wheat. The park is surrounded by a fence, inside the fence there are 520 different species of plants native to the park, more than 200 species of birds including the Mallee Fowl which incubates its eggs on large mounds of earth and leaf litter’. The smokers have taken the gold is filmed in the Wyperfeld National Park, in North Western Victoria, Australia. The DVD also includes additional features of John at work and a camp fire reading of the poetry of John Shaw Neilson. “In wildness lies the preservation of the world” Price $35 including GST |
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