Printmaker, painter and teacher, son of the artist Garnet Wolseley. After attending Byam Shaw and St Martin’s Schools of Art Wolseley in 1959–62 worked in Paris with the printmaker S W Hayter, showing at Atelier 17. After a survey trip down the Dordogne river in France in a collapsible dinghy, from 1962–9 Wolseley worked in Birgit Skiöld’s print workshop, in 1966 creating 3D works with Noah Morris for Wardour Music Festival. In 1970 Wolseley returned to west of England and started the Nettlecombe Studios artists’ and farmers’ co-operative, also lecturing at West of England Art College in Bristol. He had had a first solo show at Architectural Association in 1962 with one at Mayor Gallery in 1965. Work in Malta and Gozo in 1968–71 resulted in another exhibition at Mayor.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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