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.
In 2015 McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery presented a major retrospective, titled 280205, spanning his forty years of work. A published book accompanied the exhibition.
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, (was one of only two sculptors to be selected in all three prizes), 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, Australia.
Studies |
1973 |
Diploma of Fine Art (Sculpture) RMIT, Melbourne |
1976 |
Post-graduate Diploma (Sculpture) RMIT, Melbourne |
1985 |
Master of Fine Arts (Hons) Columbia University, New York |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
2015 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: 280205, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne |
2012 |
New Works, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne |
2009 |
New works, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne |
2007 |
Geoffrey Bartlett, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New works, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne |
2004 |
Volume and Sensuality, 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 and University of Technology, Sydney |
1998,95 |
Australian Galleries, Sydney |
1994 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: Sculpture 1977-1994, Waverley City Art Gallery, Melbourne and touring to Regional Galleries in 1994-95 |
1993,92 |
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
1993,90 |
Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
1987,86,81 |
Pinacotheca, Melbourne |
1986,85,83 |
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
1976 |
Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne |
Joint Exhibitions with Augustine Dall'Ava and Anthony Pryor |
1979 |
The Second and Last 108 Gertrude Street Sculpture Show, Melbourne 1987
Recent Sculpture, Anima Gallery, Adelaide |
1978 |
Recent Sculpture, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Three Melbourne Sculptors, Solander Gallery, Canberra
Made in Fitzroy: Exhibition 3: Three Australian Sculptors, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston and touring Tasmanian regional galleries |
1977 |
Sculpture Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne |
1976 |
108 Gertrude Street Studio Show, Melbourne
Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
2014 |
Geoffrey Bartlett, Rhonda Baum: Confluence, fourtyfivedownstairs, Melbourne |
2012 |
Bartlett, Byrt, Dall’Ava, Godwin Bradbeer, Langford 120, Melbourne |
2010 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: Lumen, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne |
2009 |
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University |
2008 |
Freedom of Angels, Geelong Gallery |
2007 |
McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park |
2006 |
Palmer Sculpture Biennial 06, South Australia (invited artist)
Snapshot, 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, Queensland College of the Arts, Brisbane |
2004 |
Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai |
2003 |
Sculpture at RMIT during the Jomantas years 1961-87, RMIT Gallery
National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee
McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park |
2002 |
Many happy returns: Celebrating Heide's 21st birthday, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Yarra arraY Sculpture Festival, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee
Sculpture Survey Invited Artists, Gomboc Gallery, Perth
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
Woollarah Small Sculpture Award, Sydney |
2001 |
National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia
Who What Where: recent sculpture commissions at the ANU, Canberra School of Art Gallery
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney |
1999 |
Volume and Form, Singapore
Geoffrey Bartlett and Graham Fransella, Volvo Gallery, Sydney |
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 |
1990 |
Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria |
1988 |
Episode 1, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne
Collaborative Designs: Working Together with Architecture, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne
World Expo '88 Collection, Southbank, Brisbane |
1987 |
Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Heide Museum of Modern Art
Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane & Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan |
1986 |
Melbourne Printmakers, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW, Sydney and touring to Victorian Regional Galleries
Sculpture for Melbourne, Gryphon Gallery, University of Melbourne
Mixed Sculpture, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre |
1984 |
Masters Graduate Exhibition, Columbia University, New York |
1982 |
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Eighth Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura |
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 |
Awards/Grants |
2003 |
Wyndham City Council Award |
1994 |
Australian Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD Program) |
1985 |
Masters Student Award, Columbia University, New York |
1983 |
Australia Council Studio, Italy
Harkness Fellowship |
1982 |
Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Award |
1975 |
Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Project Grant |
Major Commissions |
2015 |
Dame Joan and Luciano, The Arts Centre, Melbourne |
2010 |
Private commission, George Street, East Melbourne |
2008 |
Orion, Lucient Building, 430 St Kilda Road |
2005 |
Aurora, Victoria Point, Melbourne Docklands |
2000 |
Fusion, Australian National University, Canberra
Six sculptures, Citibank, Sydney |
1998 |
Beacon, City of Newcastle
Dancer 2, Colonial First State, Sydney |
1997 |
Obelisk, City of Melbourne, Focal Building
Landscape at Moyston, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Melbourne |
1996 |
Constellation, City of Melbourne (with Bruce Armstrong) |
1988 |
Mariner, Chase Corporation, Auckland, New Zealand
Six maquettes for riverside sculptures, World Expo 88, Brisbane |
1983 |
Messenger, National Gallery of Victoria |
Selected Public Collections |
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National Gallery of Australia
The Arts Centre, Melbou
rne
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
New Parliament House
Melbourne University
Geelong Art Gallery
RMIT University, Melbourne
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Deakin University, Melbourne
McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park
Macquarie University, Sydney
Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
Australian National University, Canberra
+ corporate and private collections nationally and internationally |
