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 2015 McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery presented a major retrospective, titled 280205, spanning his forty years of work. A published book accompanied the exhibition.
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;, Geoffrey Bartlett: Silver Cloud, at Deakin University, Melbourne and University of Technology, Sydney in 2001, Geoffrey Bartlett 280205 McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2015 and Geoffrey Bartlet Gippsland Art Gallery Sale, 2004. 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, Australia
Studies |
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1985 |
Master of Fine Arts (Hons) Columbia University, New York |
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1976 |
Post-graduate Diploma (Sculpture) RMIT, Melbourne |
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1973 |
Diploma of Fine Art (Sculpture) RMIT, Melbourne |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2024 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: Coalescence |
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2023 |
Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
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2022 |
& Gallery Sorento 20th Jan-14th Feb |
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2020 |
Australian Galleries, Sydney |
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2017 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: 1988 – 2017 Revised, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
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2015 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: 280205, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne, Opened by Associate Prof Ken Wach |
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2012 |
New Works, Albert St Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne |
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2009 |
New Works, Albert St Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne |
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2007 |
Geoffrey Bartlett, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Opened by Daryl Jackson AO |
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2004 |
Volume and Sensuality, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra |
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2002 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: The Shell, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne |
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2001 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: Silver Cloud, Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne, Opened by Gerard Vaughan AM, Director National Gallery of Victoria Geoffrey Bartlett: Silver Cloud, University of Technology, Sydney, Opened by Philip Cox AO FAHA |
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1998,95 |
Australian Galleries, Sydney |
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1994 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: Sculpture 1977-1994, Waverley City Art Gallery, Melbourne and touring to Regional Galleries in 1994-95 |
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1993,92 |
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
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1993,90 |
Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
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1987,86,81 |
Pinacotheca, Melbourne |
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1986,85,83 |
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
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1976 |
Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne |
Recent Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2024 |
Geoffrey Bartlett and Phillip Doggett Williams, Montalto Winery, 23 Nov – 27 Jan, Opened by Fred Schepisi |
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2019 |
Melbourne Modern – European Art and Design at RMIT since 1945, RMIT Gallery |
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2018,19 |
Art In The Vines, Hanging Rock Winery. |
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2018 |
Sculpture By The Sea, Bondi NSW |
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2016 |
Sculpture By The Sea, Bondi NSW |
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2016 |
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University |
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2014 |
Geoffrey Bartlett, Rhonda Baum: Confluence, fourtyfivedownstairs, Melbourne |
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2012 |
Bartlett, Byrt, Dall’Ava, Godwin Bradbeer, Langford 120, Melbourne |
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2010 |
Geoffrey Bartlett: Lumen, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne |
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2009 |
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University |
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2008 |
Freedom of Angels, Geelong Gallery |
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2007 |
McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park |
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2006 |
Palmer Sculpture Biennial 06, South Australia (invited artist) |
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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 |
Awards/Grants |
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2016 |
Winner of the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award |
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2003 |
Wyndham City Council Award |
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1994 |
Australian Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD Program) |
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1985 |
Masters Student Award, Columbia University, New York |
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1983 |
Australia Council Studio, Italy |
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1982 |
Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Award |
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1975 |
Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Project Grant |
Major Commissions |
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2022,23 |
Maribyrnong, Boat House Commission, Hopkins St and Joseph Road, Footscray |
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2018 |
Three Sides of the Self, Private Collection, Melbourne |
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2017 |
Arabesque, Elgee Park, Mornington Peninsula |
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2015 |
Dame Joan and Luciano, The Arts Centre, Melbourne |
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2010 |
Nautilus Study with 2 Legs, Private Collection, East Melbourne |
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2009 |
Nautilus, Study with Three Legs, Collection of Pt. Leo Estate, Mornington Peninsula |
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2008 |
Orion, Lucient Building, 430 St Kilda Road |
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2005 |
Aurora, Victoria Point, Melbourne Docklands |
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2000 |
Fusion, Australian National University, Canberra |
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1998 |
Beacon, City of Newcastle |
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1997 |
Obelisk, City of Melbourne, Focal Building |
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1996 |
Constellation, City of Melbourne (with Bruce Armstrong) |
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1988 |
Mariner, Chase Corporation, Auckland, New Zealand |
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1983 |
Messenger, National Gallery of Victoria |
Selected Public Collections |
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UTS Sydney NSW, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale Victoria + corporate and private collections nationally and internationally |
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