John Bartlett.

BIOGRAPHY
 DATED: OCTOBER 2007

• John Bartlett’s early formative  years were spent at Melbourne Victoria and Riverina New South Wales
• Travelled through Mediterranean, Aegean, Middle East, Europe.
• Has been a practising artist for 33 years; has held 17 Solo exhibitions and was included in 37 Group shows.
• Has exhibited with Pinacotheca Gallery Melbourne, Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney, Dianne Tanzer Gallery Melbourne, Scott Livesey Galleries Melbourne, Kazari Collector Gallery Melbourne, McCulloch Gallery Melbourne.
• Awarded studio at 200 Gertrude Street Artist Spaces 1989-1991.
• Painted mainly figurative till 1981 then commenced series of Construction/Collage paintings utilizing Rank Zerox greatly enlarged photo copies mounted on Masonite within which was fitted the copied computer circuit boards; paints were Oils and Acrylics.
• Then followed   a series of Geometrical Figurative Abstraction with figures re-enacting real-life games based on Video Games, Hip Hop, the Peoples Ballet of Break Dancing.
• During 1991-2002 he created impressions of sky and clouds reflected on water expressing his notion that heaven and earth meet on water.
• Following was Impressions of the earth of Central Australia that incorporated the Lasseter Expedition of 1931, collaged photocopied newspaper reportage and found-on-earth leaves pods seeds and earth and sand collected from the Alice Springs district.
• Bartlett began using the computer early 2004 to generate random images based on the Spiral and three dimensional building blocks that were subsequently further developed with charcoal and paints.
• Currently he is painting Encaustic using raw pigments with virgin beeswax on 1.2mm Aluminium.
• Bartlett is largely self-taught save for a few terms studying Tonalism with Leslie Sinclair at Montsalvat where he had a studio for a short period, then 6 terms with Erica McGilchrist; that time with Erica was crucial to his development.