Patricia Wilson-Adams is a visual artist working in the areas of printmaking and sculpture. Based in the Hunter region of NSW, Wilson-Adams has a rich exhibiting history; her major survey exhibition ‘Stain me with the intensity of black’ was presented at Newcastle Art Gallery in 2018. Wilson-Adams’ practice responds to environment, land usage and cultural landscapes, often via materiality and visual metaphor.

Wilson-Adams made a significant contribution to education at the Newcastle University where she taught printmaking, drawing and sculpture and was supervisor to Master and PHD candidates. Drawing on this 30 year teaching contribution 'Veritas: lost words and truths' reflects on the dismantling and defunding of visual arts tertiary education facilities that reached a pinnacle following the loss of international student funds during the 2020 COVID19 pandemic.

Of the work Wilson-Adams writes, “The arts, in this pragmatic climate, have been greatly devalued with one casualty being the Art School to which I devoted over 30 years of my life. With its demise has gone our wonderful library. We have also lost the spirit of research whereby we inaugurated exhibitions that investigated social issues and pushed us beyond normal practices. The losses of course include not only technical instruction but the ability to creditably critique and the ability to think laterally. Here I mourn these losses by using past exhibition catalogues from our exhibition Tracing Site, binding and cutting them into unreadable formats representing our lost voices. In this small installation I have taken advantage of the three dimensional aspects of the book as object; hovering between book, print and sculpture. Much of my work centres around notions of loss – loss of environments and personal losses of those gone before.”
Artspace Mackay 2022