Biography
GEOFFREY BARTLETT |
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Geoffrey Bartlett was born in Melbourne in 1952. He studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1971-73 and undertook a post-graduate diploma in 1976. In 1983 Bartlett was awarded a Harkness fellowship and completed a two-year Master of Fine Arts (Hons) at Columbia University, New York. Bartlett has lectured in sculpture at Deakin University, RMIT, Chisholm Institute and the Victorian College of the Arts. From 1990 to 1994 he was Senior Lecturer in Sculpture at Monash University. In 2007 the National Gallery of Victoria presented a major exhibition of his sculpture from 1987 to 2007. Bartlett has held over thirty solo exhibitions including Geoffrey Bartlett, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 2004; Geoffrey Bartlett: Sculpture 1977-94, at Waverly City Art Gallery and touring Victorian regional galleries in 1994-95; and Geoffrey Bartlett: Silver Cloud, at Deakin University, Melbourne and University of Technology, Sydney in 2001. His work has been selected for survey exhibitions including the Mildura Sculpture Triennial, the Australian Sculpture Triennial, the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, the McClelland Sculpture Survey, and the National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia. Bartlett has undertaken public sculpture commissions for the National Gallery of Victoria, the City of Auckland, the City of Melbourne, the City of Newcastle, the Australian National University and Melbourne Docklands. He is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Parliament House Art Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art and in many regional, university, corporate and private collections. Bartlett was awarded the Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Award in 1982 and the Australia Council studio in Tuscany in 1984 Geoffrey Bartlett lives and works in Melbourne. |
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INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | Geoffrey Bartlett 2009, John Buckley Gallery, October 2009 |
| 2007 | Geoffrey Bartlett, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne New works John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2004 | Geoffrey Bartlett, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra Endangered Species, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney New works, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Geoffrey Bartlett: The Shell, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne |
| 2001 | Geoffrey Bartlett: Silver Cloud, Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne; touring to University of Technology Gallery, Sydney |
| 2000 | Recent Sculpture, Beaver Galleries, Canberra |
| 1998 | Recent Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Sydney |
| 1995 | Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Sydney |
| 1994 | Geoffrey Bartlett: Sculpture 1977-1994, Waverley City Gallery, and touring to McClelland Gallery, Hamilton Art Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Latrobe Regional Art Gallery and Australian Galleries, Sydney in 1994-95 |
| 1993 | Woman: Sculpture and etchings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| 1990 | Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Painted bronze, Pinacotheca, Melbourne |
| 1986 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Pinacotheca, Melbourne |
| 1985 | Geoffrey Bartlett, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| 1983 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| 1981 | Sculpture, Pinacotheca, Melbourne |
| 1976 | Geoffrey Bartlett, Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne |
JOINT EXHIBITIONS WITH AUGUSTINE DALL'AVA and ANTHONY PRYOR |
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| 1987 | Recent Sculpture, Anima Gallery, Adelaide |
| 1979 | The Second and Last 108 Gertrude Street Sculpture Show, Fitzroy, Melbourne |
| 1978 | Made in Fitzroy: Exhibition 3: Three Australian Sculptors, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, School of Art, Hobart and Burnie Art Gallery Recent Sculpture, Watters Gallery, Sydney Three Melbourne Sculptors, Solander Gallery, Canberra |
| 1977 | Sculpture Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1976 | 108 Gertrude Street Studio Show, Fitzroy, Melbourne Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2009 Deakin University |
| 2008 | Freedom of Angles Geelong Gallery |
| 2007 | McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin Something old, something new: The sculpture show, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2006 | The Palmer Sculpture Biennial 06, South Australia (invited artist) Snapshot John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne Backward Glance: Important works from the 1980s John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2005 | National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and touring to Macquarie Bank offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Dell Gallery at Queensland College of the Arts, Brisbane |
| 2004 | Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai |
| 2003 | National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased for the NGA collection The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin Sculpture at RMIT during the Jomantas years 1961-87, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Less is More, BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide |
| 2002 | Many happy returns: Celebrating Heide's 21st birthday, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria Woollarah Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney Sculpture Survey Invited Artists, Gomboc Gallery, Western Australia Sculpture Survey, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne Toorak Village Sculpture Show, Melbourne Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney Sculpture in the City, Martin Place, Sydney |
| 2001 | National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Who What Where: Recent sculpture commissions at the ANU, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney |
| 1999 | Sculpture and Form: International sculpture exhibition, Singapore Geoffrey Bartlett and Graham Fransella, Volvo Gallery, Sydney |
| 1998 | Art and Music Group Exhibition, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne |
| 1997 | Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1996 | Sculpture Walk, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne |
| 1995 | Continuum and Contrast, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin |
| 1993 | Just Sculpture, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Designex 1993, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Small Sculpture, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
| 1991 | Table Top Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1990 | Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria |
| 1988 | World Expo 88 Collection, Sculpture Southbank, Brisbane Collaborative Designs: Working Together with Architecture, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne Pinacotheca Group Show, Pinacotheca, Melbourne Episode 1, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne Gold Coast Art Prize Exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
| 1987 | Painters and Sculptors: Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane & Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne |
| 1986 | Melbourne Printmakers, Ian Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and touring to nine Victorian Regional Art Galleries in 1986-87 Sculpture for Melbourne, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne Eleventh Annual Freemantle Print Awards, Freemantle Arts Centre MPAC Prints Acquisitive, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre Mixed Sculpture, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell |
| 1984 | Masters Graduate Exhibition, Prentis Hall, Columbia University, New York |
| 1982 | Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales Eighth Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Mining Industry if WA Art Awards, Freemantle Art Gallery |
| 1981 | First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Latrobe University, Melbourne Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Award, National Gallery of Victoria |
| 1980 | Some Contemporary Australian Sculpture, Newcastle Region Art Gallery |
| 1979 | Caulfield Invitation Sculpture Exhibition, Caulfield Art Centre, Melbourne Staff Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1978 | Seventh Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre |
AWARDS/ PRIZES |
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| 2003 | Wyndham City Council Award |
| 1994 | Australian Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD Program) |
| 1985 | Masters Student Award, Columbia University, New York |
| 1984 | Australia Council Studio, Tuscany - Boyd studio |
| 1983 | Harkness Fellowship |
| 1982 | Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Award |
| 1977 | Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Project Grant |
| 1975 | Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Project Grant |
COMMISSIONS |
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| 2008 | Orion 2008 stainless steel 7000 x 5000 x 5000 cm Lucient Building 430 St Kilda Road, Melbourne |
| 2006 | Aurora, Victoria Point, Melbourne Docklands, corner of Harbour Esplanade and Bourke Street |
| 2000 | Fusion, Ian Ross Building, Australian National University, Canberra Six sculptures, Citibank, 2 Park Street, Sydney |
| 1998 | Beacon, City of Newcastle, Newcastle foreshore, NSW Dancer 2, Colonial First State, 60 Castlereagh Street, Sydney |
| 1997 | Constellation, City of Melbourne, Yarra Turning Basin, Melbourne, Collaboration with Bruce Armstrong Landscape at Moyston, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 215 Spring Street, Melbourne |
| 1996 | Obelisk, City of Melbourne, Focal Building, Spring Street, Melbourne |
| 1988 | Mariner, Chase Corporation, Auckland, New Zealand Six maquettes for riverside sculptures, World Expo 88, Brisbane |
| 1983 | Messenger, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
COLLECTIONS |
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| ArtsACT Art Gallery of New South Wales Attorney General's Department, Victoria Australian National University, Canberra Chase Corporation, New Zealand Citigroup Centre, Sydney City of Melbourne Colonial First State, Sydney Deakin University Art Collection - Melbourne & Waterfront campuses Geelong Gallery Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne ING, Melbourne Joseph Brown Collection McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin McDonalds Collection, Sydney Macquarie University, Sydney Melbourne University Mercantile Mutual, Melbourne Merrill Lynch, Melbourne National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria Newcastle City Council Newcastle Region Art Gallery Northern Territory Government Collection Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Melbourne Quay Grand, Sydney RMIT University, Melbourne Standard and Pores, Sydney Swiss Re Australia Ltd, Sydney Sydney Casino Tabcorp, Melbourne The Art Trust, Melbourne Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne Visual Arts Board, Australia Council Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery Wyndham City Council, Werribee |
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
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BOOKS |
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| Payes, Sonya Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, Macmillan, Melbourne 2007 McCulloch, Susan The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Melbourne University Press, 2006 ANU Art Collection: Acquisitions from the past ten years, Australian National University, Canberra, 2004 Scarlett, Ken Elgee Park, Sculpture in the landscape, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2004 Crafti, Stephen Request Response Reaction: the designers of Australia and New Zealand, Images publications, 2002 Hedger, Michael Public Sculpture in Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney 1995 McCulloch, Susan & Alan The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, rev. edn, Allen & Unwin, 1994 Scarlett, Ken Contemporary Sculpture in Australian Gardens, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1993 Sturgeon, Graeme Contemporary Australian Sculpture, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1991 Germain, Max Dictionary of Australian Artists and Galleries, rev. edn. Boolarong Publications, 1984 Scarlett, Ken Australian Sculptors, Nelson, 1980 Sturgeon, Graeme The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975, Thames & Hudson, London, 1978 |
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INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION CATALOGUES |
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| Geoffrey Bartlett, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007 with essays by David Hurlston and Ken Wach Geoffrey Bartlett: Volume and Sensuality, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra, 2004, with essays by John Buckley and Elena Taylor Geoffrey Bartlett: Silver Cloud, Stonnington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne, 2001, with essays by Ken Wach and Caroline Field Geoffrey Bartlett: Sculpture 1977-1994, Australian Galleries and Waverly City Gallery, Melbourne 1994, with essays by Ken Scarlett and Katrina Rumley |
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GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES |
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| McClelland Sculpture Survey 2007, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, 2007 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005 McClelland Sculpture Survey 2003, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, 2003 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award 2003, Melbourne, 2003 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2003, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2003 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award 2002, Melbourne, 2002 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2001 Sculpture and Form: International sculpture exhibition, 3-D Art Consultancy, Singapore, 1999 Scarlett, Ken Sculpture Walk, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 1996 Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, 1990 The World Expo '88 Collection: Sculpture, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 1988 Missingham, D. and Selenitsch, A. Collaborative Designs: Working Together in Architecture, Meat Market Craft Centre, 1988 Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987 Painters and Sculptors: Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1987 1982 Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura,1982 McCullogh, Tom The First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Australian Sculpture Committee, Melbourne, 1981 Made in Fitzroy: Exhibition 3: Three Australian Sculptors, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, Sydney, 1978 Seventh Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre, 1978 |
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ARTICLES & REVIEWS |
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| Makin, Jeff "Street-wise art gets touchy-feely" Herald Sun, 27 August 2007 Grishin, Sasha "Art of instinct and identity" Canberra Times, 23 August 2007, p. 12 Sim, Joanne "Geoffrey Bartlett" Melbourne Weekly, 22 August 2007, p. 12 Novakovic, Jasna "Geoffrey Bartlett", Politika, Belgrade, 20 August 2007 Gill, Harbant "Lost in (inner) space" Herald Sun, 23 July 2007 p. 105 Stephens, Andrew "The shape of things to come", The Age, 21 July 2007, p. 18 "The power of perseverance" City Weekly, Melbourne, 12 July 2007, p. 27 Cater, Melissa "Artist profile: Geoffrey Bartlett" Scoop Traveler, (Victoria), July-December 2007, pp 64-67 Barron, Sonia "Bold, brave sculpture world" Canberra Times, 28 August 2005 Fisher, Kathleen "An epic in sculpture" Artlook, no. 13, July 2005 Grishin, Sasha "Fantastic universe" Canberra Times, 31 August 2004 Marginson, Greg "Geoffrey Bartlett: volume and sensuality" Canberra Review, 26 August 2004 Makin, Jeff "Naturally intimate" Herald Sun, 30 June 2004 Bellamy, Louise "Geoffrey Bartlett" The Age, 26 June 2004 Low, Lenny "Endangered species" Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May 2004, p.13 Scarlett, Ken "Australia’s sculpture prizes" Sculpture, vol. 23, no. 1, January/February 2004 Beck, Chris "Shaping a space", The Age Review, p.7, The Age, 4 October 2003 Bidinost, M. "Carving out a place in the art world" The Age, 2 November 2002, p.20 Scarlett, Ken "The unnerving journey" World Sculpture News, vol.7, no. 3, Summer 2001, pp.28-33 Crafti, S. "Geoffrey Bartlett: iconic sculpture" Artichoke, no.6, 2000 Barron, Sonia "Aesthetically satisfying" Canberra Times, 24 October 2000, p.10 Makin, Jeff "Message in a letter" Herald Sun, 4 June 2001 McCulloch-Uehlin, Susan "Sculpture carves out a new role" The Australian, 31 December 1999, p. 26 Turner, B "Sculptor scales new heights in art of seduction" The Sydney Morning Herald 22 September 1995 Scarlett, Ken "At long last contemporary sculpture for Melbourne!" Art Monthly, October 1989, no. 25 pp 3-7 Delaruelle, J. "Indifferent to indifference" The Sydney Review, March, 1992 Scarlett, Ken, Ikebana Ryusei 1986 Catalano, Gary "Science is not yet alien to art" The Age, 27 November 1987, p.14 Mendelssohn, Joanna "Geoffrey Bartlett, Macquarie Galleries" Art Network, Summer Autumn, 1986 p.57 McDonald, John "Bartlett: been there, done that, but with an individual touch" Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1985, p.14 Moor, Keith "Get the message?" Melbourne Herald, 23 August 1983, p.1 Hawker, Phillipa "Fellowship recognises a new imagery in metal" The Age, 11 January 1983 Lindsay, Robert "An assembled view of sculpture" Australian Art Review no.2, 1983, pp.67-74 Eagle, Mary "Things fall apart" Australian Art Review, vol. 1, 1982, pp.52-55 Sturgeon, Graeme "In pursuit of the idea: recent Australian sculpture" Meanjin, no. 39, 1980 pp.212-221 Lynne, Elwyn "Letter from Australia" Art International, vol. XXII/5-6, 1978, pp.25-28 |
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RADIO & TV |
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| "McClelland Prize entrant hard at work", ABC TV, Stateline Victoria, 16 November 2007 "Public Art", ABC TV, Sunday Arts, 8 May 2007 "Geoffrey Bartlett", ABC Radio, Melbourne, Sunday Arts, 29 July 2007 |
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