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 talks to Creative Cowboy's Peter Hylands: this warm and wonderful film is full of John's wisdom. The Smokers Have Taken the Gold is filmed in the Wyperfeld National Park, in North Western Victoria.

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 more 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.

'In the Wilderness lies the preservation of the world.'

Running time: 35 mins