Geoffrey Bartlett

Aurora (2005/06), Melbourne Docklands

Aurora at night

Geoffrey Bartlett (* 1952 in Melbourne , Australia ) is an Australian sculptor .

life and work

Bartlett trained as a sculptor from 1971 to 1973 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, where he studied until 1976. In 1983 studied in conjunction with the Harkness Fellowship at Columbia University in New York . He then completed his studies as a Master of Fine Arts . Immediately after arriving in New York, he moved to the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville , where he worked with David Smith , who did not recognize him. The disappointment that followed had a lasting impact on his own work, which is expressed in his restless room layout and in his three-dimensional works.

Bartlett has taught sculpture at various institutions and universities: Deakin University , Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Chisholm Institute and Victoria College of Art . From 1990 to 1994 he was a professor at Monash University .

In 2007 Bartlett's work was exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne as a survey exhibition by Geoffrey Bartlett from 1987 to 2007 .

Bartlett lives and works in Melbourne.

Works (selection)

1982: Circus by the sea , Heide Museum of Modern Art
1983: Messenger , National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (since 2003 in the sculpture park The Grollo Equiset Garden .)
1984: The rise of the flowering plants (Lower Cretacious) , McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park
1984: Lessons in Gravity , Parliament House in Canberra (with Kym Smith)
1988: Mariner , Trans Tasman Shipping in Auckland ( New Zealand )
1996: Obelisk , Focal Building in Melbourne
1997: The Constellation - 5 parts (with Bruce Armstrong ), Yarra Turning Basin, Southbank in Melbourne
1999: Beacon , Newcastle City Council in Newcastle ( New South Wales )
1999: Dancer 2 , Colonial First State, Sydney (New South Wales)
2000: Six Sculptures , Citibank in Sydney
2000: Fusion , Ian Ross Building in front of the Australian National University in Canberra
2005/06: Aurora , Harbor Esplanade, Docklands, Melbourne