EXHIBITIONS

New Works 2004

New Works 2007

SELECTED WORKS

Geoffrey Bartlett was born in Melbourne in 1952. He first studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and in 1985 following the award of a Harkness Fellowship completed a 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.

Since the 1970s Bartlett has had over twenty solo exhibitions including most recently Sculpture, 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 major survey exhibitions of contemporary sculpture including the Mildura Sculpture Triennial in 1978 and 1982 and the Australian Sculpture Triennial in 1981, 1987 and 1990. Bartlett was a finalist in the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award in 2002 and 2003, the McClelland Survey and Award for Contemporary Sculpture in 2003 and the National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia in 2001 and 2003. He was awarded the Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Award in 1982 and the Australia Council studio in Tuscany in 1984.

Bartlett has undertaken many major public sculpture commissions, including the City of Auckland in 1987, the City of Melbourne in 1997, the City of Newcastle in 1998 and the Australian National University in 2000. He is represented in major Australian public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Parliament House Art Collection and in many regional, university and corporate collections. Geoffrey Bartlett lives and works in Melbourne.

CURRICULUM VITAE

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1976 Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne
1981 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1986 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1987 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1983 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1985 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1986 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1992 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1993 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1990, 93 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1995, 98 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1994-95 Geoffrey Bartlett Sculpture: 1977-1994, Waverley City Art Gallery, and touring to McClelland Gallery, Hamilton Art Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Latrobe Regional Art Gallery and Australian Galleries, Sydney
2000 Recent Sculptre, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2001 Geoffrey Bartlett: Silver Cloud, Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne; touring to University of Technology Gallery, Sydney
2002 Geoffrey Bartlett The Shell, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2004 Endangered Species, Boutwell Draper, Sydney
2004 Recent Sculptures, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2004 Geoffrey Bartlett, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
2007 Geoffrey Bartlett Retrospective, Ian Potter Centre Federation Square, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2007 New Works, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

JOINT EXHIBITIONS WITH AUGUSTINE DALL'AVA and ANTHONY PRYOR

1976 108 Gertrude Street Studio Show, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1977 Sculpture Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1978 Recent Sculpture, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Three Melbourne Sculptors, Solander Gallery, Canberra
Made in Fitzroy: Exhibition 3: Three Australian Sculptors, Regional Development Program, Visual Arts Board, Tasmanian Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, School of Art, Hobart; Launceston and Burnie Art Gallery
1979 The Second and Last 108 Gertrude Street Sculpture Show, Fitzroy, Melbourne
1987 Recent Sculpture, Anima Gallery, Adelaide

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1978 Seventh Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre
1979 Caulfield Invitation Sculpture Exhibition, Caulfield Art Centre, Melbourne
Staff Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1980 Some Contemporary Australian Sculpture, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
1981 First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Latrobe University, Melbourne
Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Award, National Gallery of Victoria
1982 Eighth Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura
Mining Industry if WA Art Awards, Freemantle Art Gallery
1984 Masters Graduate Exhibition, Prentis Hall, Columbia University, New York
1986 Sculpture for Melbourne, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne
Eleventh Annual Freemantle Print Awards, Freemantle Arts Centre
MPAC Prints Acquisitive, Mornington Penninsula Arts Centre
Mixed Sculpture, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre
1986-87 Melbourne Printmakers, Ian Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and touring to nine Victorian Regional Art Galleries
1987 Southbank Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane & Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1987 Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1988 World Expo 88 Collection, 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
1990 Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
1991 Table Top Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Small Sculpture, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1993 Designex 1993, Melbourne
1993 Just Sculpture, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1995 Continuum and Contrast, McLelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
1996 Sculpture Walk, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
1997 Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Art and Music Group Exhibition, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
1999 Geoffrey Bartlett and Graham Fransella, Volvo Gallery, Sydney
2001 Who What Where, Australian National University, Canberra
Sculpture by the Sea 2001, Bondi, Sydney
2002 Sculpture Survey Invited Artists, Gomboc Gallery, Western Australia
Many happy returns: Celebrating Heide's 21st birthday, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Sculpture Survey, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
Toorak Village Sculpture Show, Melbourne
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
Sculpture in the City, Martin Place, Sydney
2003 Sculpture at RMIT during the Jomantas years 1961-87, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Less is More, BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide
2004 Shanghai Art Fair
2005 National Sculpture Prize and exhibtion, National Gallery of Victoria, Canberra
2006 The Palmer Sculpture Biennial 06, South Australia
2006 Snapshot, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Backward Glance: Important works from the 1980s (curated by John Buckley), John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Something Old, Something New ...: The Sculpture Show (curated by John Buckley), John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

AWARDS/ PRIZES

1975, 77 Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Project Grant
1982 Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Award
1983 Harkness Fellowship (2yrs) Columbia University , New York
1984 Australia Council Studio, Tuscany - Boyd studio
1985 Masters Student Award, Columbia University, New York
1994-95 Australian Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD Program)
2001 (finalist) National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2002 (finalist) The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
(finalist) Woolarah Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2003 (finalist) National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased for the NGA collection
(finalist) The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
(finalist) McClelland Survey and Award, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin

COMMISSIONS

1987-88 Trans Tasman Shipping, Auckland, NZ
1988 World Expo 88, Brisbane
1996 City of Melbourne, Yarra Turning Basin, Melbourne, Collaboration with Bruce Armstrong
1996-97 City of Melbourne, Focal Building, Melbourne
1997 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Melbourne
1998 City of Newcastle, Newcastle foreshore, NSW
Colonial First State, 60 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
2000 Ian Ross Building, Faculty of Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra
Citibank, 2 Park Street, Sydney
2006 Aurora, Melbourne Docklands, Melbourne

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sturgeon, Graeme The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975, Thames & Hudson, 1978
Lynne, Elwyn "Letter from Australia" Art International, vol. XXII/5-6, 1978, pp.25-28
Made in Fitzroy: Exhibition 3: Three Australian Sculptors, (exh. cat.) Visual Arts Board, ustralia Council, Sydney, 1978
Seventh Sculpture Triennial, (exh. cat.) Mildura Arts Centre, 1978
Scarlett, Ken Australian Sculptors Nelson, 1980
Sturgeon, Graeme "In Pursuit of the Idea: Recent Australian Sculpture" in Meanjin, 39, 1980 pp.212-221
McCullogh, Tom The First Australian Sculpture Triennial, (exh. cat.) Australian Sculpture Committe, 1981
Eagle, Mary "Things Fall Apart" Australian Art Review, vol 1, 1982, pp.52-55
1982 Sculpture Triennial, (exh. cat.) Mildura Arts Centre, 1982
Lindsay, Robert "An Assembled View of Sculpture" Australian Art Review No2, 1983, pp.67-74
Hawker, Phillipa "Fellowship recognises a new unagery in metal" The Age, 11 January 1983
Moor, Keith "Get the Message?" Melbourne Herald, 23 August 1983, p.1
Germain, Max Dictionary of Australian Artists and Galleries rev. edn. Boolarong Publications, 1984
McDonald, John "Bartlett: been there, done that, but with an individual touch" Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1985, p.14
Mendelssohn, Joanna Art Network, Summer Autumn, 1986 p.57
Scarlett, Ken, Ikebana Ryusei, 1986
Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, (exh. cat.) National Gallery of Victoria, 1987
Catalano, Gary "Science is not yet alien to art" The Age, 27 November 1987
Missingham, D. & Selenitsch, A. Collaborative Designs: Working Together in Architecture, (exh. cat.) Meat Market Craft Centre, 1988
The World Expo '88 Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 1988
Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, (exh. cat.) National Gallery of Victoria, 1990
Sturgeon, Graeme Contemporary Australian Sculpture, Craftsman House, 1991
Delaruelle, J. "Indifferent to Indifference" The Sydney Review, March, 1992
Bartlett, Geoffrey Geoffrey Bartlett: Sculpture 1977-1994, (exh. cat.) Australian Galleries & Waverly City Gallery, Melbourne 1994, with essays by Ken Scarlett and Katrina Rumley
McCulloch, S. & A. The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, rev. edn, Allen & Unwin, 1994
Turner, B "Sculptor Scales New Heights in Art of Seduction" The Sydney Morning Herald September 22, 1995
Scarlett, Ken Sculpture Walk, (exh. cat.) Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 1996
Benavides, J. Volume & Form 30, Art Consultancy, Singapore, 1999
Barron, S. "Aesthetically Satisfying" Canberra Times, October 24, 2000, p.10
Crafti, S. "Geoffrey Bartlett: Iconic Sculpture" Artichoke, #06, 2000
National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2001, (exh. cat.) National Gallery of Australia, 2001
Scarlett, Ken "The Unnerving Journey" World Sculpture News, Vol.7 No. 3, Summer 2001, pp.28-33
Bartlett, Geoffrey Geoffrey Bartlett: Silver Cloud, (exh. cat.) Stonnington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne, 2001, with essays by Ken Wach and Caroline Field
Crafti, S. RequestResponceReaction: the designers of Australia and New Zealand, Images publications, 2002
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award 2002, (exh. cat.) Melbourne, 2002
Bidinost, M. "Carving out a place in the Art World" My Career, p.20 The Age November 2, 2002
National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2001, (exh. cat.) National Gallery of Australia, 2003
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award 2003, (exh. cat.) Melbourne, 2003
Beck, C. "Shaping a Space", The Age Review, p.7, The Age, October 4, 2003
McClelland Survey & Award 2003, (exh. cat.) McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarren, 2003
Scarlett, Ken "Australias Sculpture Prizes" Sculpture, Vol 23, No 1, January/February 2004
Sever, Nancy "Catalogue Preface" Geoffrey Bartlett: Volume and Sensuality 2004
Buckly, John "Interview with John Buckley" Geoffrey Bartlett: Volume and Sensuality 2004
Taylor, Elena "Intimate Engagement: Geoffrey Bartlett's Recent Works" Geoffrey Bartlett: Volume and Sensuality 2004

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Attorney General's Department, Victoria
Australian National University, Canberra
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, Langwarren
McDonalds Collection, Sydney
Macquarie University, Sydney
Mercantile Mutual, Melbourne
Merrill Lynch, Melbourne
National Gallery of Austraila
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
Trans Tasman Shipping, Auckland, New Zealand
Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery
Wyndham City Council, Werribee