About

Joel Wolter is a visual artist working at the intersection of the Gadubanud, Gulidjan and Wadawurrung lands at the foothills of the Otway Ranges in Victoria, Australia. Born in Geelong in 1978, Joel holds a BA of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts and has many years of experience as a professional printmaker and as an art educator. Joel is widely exhibited across Australia and his artworks have been selected and represented in many significant exhibitions and art awards, including the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, National Works on Paper Award, Rick Amor Drawing Award, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, Fremantle Print Awards and Print Traditions – Sources of Australian Printmaking to mention a few. 

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Joel’s work is represented in numerous public collections including the Ballarat Art Gallery, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Geelong Gallery, the State Library of Victoria, the Parliament of Australia, and the Victorian College of the Arts.

 

* “The sense of the precise moment may be the key to what makes these images compelling. They contain echoes of the awareness of transience, and remind us that it is not just the moment, or the particular, that is passing — ‘But at my back, I always hear Time’s winged chariot, hurrying near’. Ultimately, it is us, as much as the moment suggested by the images; in other words, the images reveal something essential to ourselves.”

 

* An excerpt from a catalogue essay by Dr Colin Holden on Joel Wolter’s printmaking, 2010.