Geoffrey Bartlett

Geoffrey Bartlett Revival

20 Jan - 14 Feb 2022

& gallery

20 Jan - 14 Feb 2022 Opening Event 22 Jan 2-5pm Guest Speaker: Geoffrey Edwards, Curator of Point Leo Estate Sculpture Park.

Australia

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About Geoff Geoffrey Bartlett has had a long and successful career since beginning study at RMIT in 1971. He has held over thirty solo exhibitions, been involved in numerous group exhibitions, and has created some of Australia’s most important public art projects. In 1983 Bartlett was awarded a Harkness fellowship and completed a two-year Master of Fine Arts (Hons) at Columbia University, New York. In 2007 the National Gallery of Victoria presented a major retrospective of sculpture between1987 to 2007. Bartlett has lectured in sculpture at Deakin University, RMIT, Chisholm Institute and the Victorian College of the Arts.

From 1990-94 he was Senior Lecturer in Sculpture at Monash University.

A major sculpture By Geoff’s is also held within the Point Leo Estate Sculpture Park.

This exhibition will be officially opened by Geoffrey Edwards Please join us on 22nd January 2-5pm in a covid safe environment.

Geoffrey Edwards, Pt. Leo Estate Sculpture Park Curator Geoffrey Edwards’ contribution to the Australian gallery and museum sector is such that in 2015 he received a Museums Australia (Victoria) Lifetime Achievement Award. Edwards has led an esteemed career, including time at the National Gallery of Victoria before being appointed the top position as the Director of the Geelong Gallery, a position he held for 15 years before retiring in 2016. Career highlights include establishing an acclaimed acquisitions program, the record-breaking purchase of Eugene von Guerard’s colonial masterpiece View of Geelong (1856) from the legendary composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the landmark exhibition Land of the Golden Fleece–Arthur Streeton in the Western District. Since leaving the Geelong Gallery, Edwards has been in demand as a freelance curator, lecturer, and consultant to private, corporate and government bodies. Most recently, he worked on an outdoor exhibition of sculpture for the celebrated Barangaroo Reserve on Sydney Harbour and Sculpture by the Sea. His international and Australian affiliations include membership of the Curatorial Advisory Panel of Sculpture by the Sea.

THE MARRIAGE OF OLD METHODOLOGY WITH NEW INNOVATIONS Many years ago I visited the studio of Robert Klippel and became enthralled by the intensity of his small works. He worked with found objects such as typewriter and model aeroplane parts to enabled his small scale to evolve. Influenced by Klippel’s small sculptures, it became my ambition to one day revisit my early large sculptures but now on a smaller and more intimate scale. My work had developed from built objects produced in my studio. This resulted in works of a large and often monumental scale. The small works in this exhibition are studies based on these large sculptures I made around 1995. After relooking at these earlier works, I have further developed and changed them through two-dimensional drawings. Once I was happy with their new form I used a CAD program to model my original drawings and convert them into a digital format which can be viewed in 3-dimensions. This process allows me to reduce their scale and create a 3-D printed model of my original design, which is then cast in bronze. I have been attempting to develop small sculptures during my entire career and now, through new digital technology, it is becomes possible.

Geoffrey Bartlett

1. Maquette for Phillip Island Ed 1/6 2020 Bronze and timber 50 x 30 x 20 cm Price $8,500

2. Acrobat

3. Study No 4

Ed 1/3

2020

1999

Ed 1/6

Cast aluminium and timber

Bronze and timber

138 x 70 x 32 CM

23 x 40 x 23 cm

Price $40,000.00

Price $6750.00

4. Mask on pillar

5. Mask (Shell Series)

2007

2002

Bronze and timber

Bronze and timber

166 x 30 x 30 cm

33 x 61 x 30cm

Price $22000.00

Price $10,000

6. White mountain 2011 Stainless steel, various timber and mixed media

7. Kiwi 2002 Lead, copper and timber.

118 x 80 x 46 cm

62 x 63 x 20 cm

Price $35000.00

Price $12,000.00

8. Study No 5

9. Study No 2

Ed 1/6

Ed 1/6

2022

2021

Bronze and timber

Bronze and timber

45 x 22 x 12 cm

54 x 21 x 15 cm

Price $6,750.00

Price $6,750.00

10. Solitary grace Ed 1/3

11. Study for George Street

2017

2015/16

Bronze and timber

Steel, copper, timber and paint

76 x 61 x 26 cm

88 x 62 x 18 cm

Price $35,000.00

Price $9000.00

12. Dreaming at Glass House Mountain

13. Maquette for Maribyrnong

Ed 2/6

Ed 1/6

2019

2020

Bronze and timber

Bronze and timber

67 x 48 x 20 cm

58 x 20 x 10 cm

Price $22,500.00

Price $6750.00

14. Study No 1 (In the window) Ed 1/6 2021 Bronze and timber 63 x 21 x 13 cm Price $7,500.00

15. Study No 6 (In the window) Ed 1/6 2021 Bronze and timber 40 x 22 x 17 cm Price $8500.00