Gareth Morse

From 1982-1987 he was Foundation Head of Department, Art and Design, Western Australian College of Advanced Education (WACAE).

Key influences in his work include the mining landscapes of the Rhondda, drawing him immediately to the Western Australian Goldfields region of Western Australia, where he made many field trips to Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie townships, as well as remote and abandoned tenements in these areas.

Over time, his journeys expanded to include solo voyages to areas as diverse as Cervantes and the Pinnacles, Dampier, Karratha and Tom Price in the Pilbara, Darwin, Katherine Gorge, Kakadu and Kununurra, the Bungle Bungle Ranges, Ord River and Birdsville, Thursday Island, Tiwi Islands and Cape York.

[7] Morses's Drawings of the progress of building the Duyfken 1606 replica 1997 : maritime precinct, Fremantle, was purchased by the Friends of the University of Western Australia Library in 2006.

[8] During the 1980s, Morse conducted a series of interviews at Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education, with the artists Sydney Nolan, Russell Drysdale and Charles Blackman.

A series of interviews with Morse himself can be found at his personal website, covering a range of his paintings, philosophical concerns and biographical details.

Gareth Morse : a journey into Australian landscape : retrospective 1975-1997 : Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, the University of Western Australia, 6 June to 20 July 1997.