ALEXANDER BARTLEET

White and Green Rough Blocks

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From canvas to the body

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Young designer Veronica Bartleet has transferred and transformed the artwork of Alexander Bartleet into a full range of garments. See her range here.

White Rough Cube

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White Rough Cube at The Auckland Art Fair 2011

White Rough Cube. 2011. acrylic and mixed media. 109 x 109 x 109 cm.

Image from cleobarnett

Featured in Auckland Art Fair opening videos

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Artist facebook page

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Preview Opening "10,000 Objects"

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Images of the opening night here.

Radio Interview on 95bfm Breakfast. Tuesday 15th March

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L isten to it here.

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Alexander Bartleet with artwork White Rough. 2011. mixed media on canvas. 270 x 280 cm

Light Brown Rough. 2011. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 910 x 910 mm

Green Rough 2. 2011. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 910 x 910 mm
Yellow Rough. 2011. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 600 x 600 mm

Spectrum. 2011. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 910 x 910 mm

Orange Rough. 2011. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 910 x 910 mm

Green Rough. 2011. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 910 x 910 mm

View all the works in the show here.

Preview Opening: Alexander Bartleet "10,000 Objects" Tuesday 15th March 5.30pm - 7.30pm

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BMW Art Awards 2010 Bonnet

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Out of Line. 2010
History of BMW art cars here.

Finalist at the Waikato Society of Arts New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2011

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Compilation. 2010. acrylic, oil and mixed media on canvas. 900 x1200 mm.

NZPPA 2011 Grand Opening : 18 February 2011 at the Hamilton Gardens Pavillion
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Summer Catalogue - Warwick Henderson Gallery 7 Dec 2010 - 19 Feb 2011

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Seabed. 2010. acrylic, sand and mixed media on canvas. 600 x 500 mm

Crop. 2010. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 600 x 500 mm

Bowl works

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Acrylic & mixed media on pine bowls

Bowl Me Over work by Alexander Bartleet

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Bowl Me Over, Seed Gallery, 30 artists, 300 artworks, $80 each - opening night, November 25th, 6-8pm

NZ Emerging Artists Exhibition

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You are invited to The Casey Trust Opening Night Exhibition of NZ Emerging Artists, Thursday 2 September 2010 from 6pm. To be held at 12 Akepiro St, Mt Eden, Auckland. Exhibition dates: Friday 3 September 10am-2pm, Weekend of 4th & 5th September 11am-3pm

Collecting 101 Group Exhibition - Seed Gallery

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25 August - 14 September 2010
Talk: Tuesday 24 August, 6-8pm (by invitation only)

In the words of Warwick Brown: “The art collector must respond intuitively and immediately to an image that strikes a personal chord….buy what you like, but network, read, look a lot and think hard first”

You don’t need to spend an arm and a leg to have an art collection – attend Warwick Browns instructive talk on collecting and learn how to make informed choices and find works for much less than you would expect. [more]

Artwork featured on SIDEROOM.COM

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Alexander Bartleet is best known for his works on canvas. Using thousands of real objects ranging from old door hinges to plastic toys and old jewelry. [more]

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Hunted and Gathered. 2010. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 710 x 560cm. SOLD

Available for sale at Warwick Henderson Gallery

Finalist at National Contemporary Art Award 2010 - Waikato Museum

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Remember. 2010. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 710 x 560 mm.

7 AUGUST - 9 JANUARY 2011

House of Cards 8 - 25 July 2010 Seed Gallery

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Preview: Wednesday 7 July, 6-8pm

Deal yourself in at Seed Gallery’s ‘House of Cards’ show. Seed has split a deck of playing cards between 27 painters, printmakers, sculptors and photographers and asked each of them to interpret their current work into two card designs. The resulting 54 unique art works will be adapted into 200 boxed, limited edition decks of cards. You can own the original Ace of Spades or take home the whole deck; both will be available for sale during the show from the 8th – 25th July. Packs of cards are $60 each.

8 of Hearts. 2010. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 300 x 200 mm.

King of Spades. 2010. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 300 x 200 mm.

Surface Tension 21 May - 1 August 2010

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The exhibition consists of work by seven New Zealand artists who are concerned with the texture of the painted surface. Each of the artists treat their surface in a different manner, either by manipulating the actual surface, adhering objects to it, or applying differing layers of paint to create a 3-dimensional quality. In the case of Geoff Dixon’s works, his cascading drips of fluid paint creates the appearance of lush, dense rainforest through which one catches flashes of bright plumage.

Auckland artist Alexander Bartleet crams his canvas with discarded objects and remnants of life, such as hinges, mobile phones, pieces of jigsaw puzzles and fishing twine, to create a seething energised mass. He then adds his own variation by over-painting and rubbing back. To label his work as mixed media on canvas does not do it justice. His modernist still-life works erupt from the surface of the canvas as though each item is vying for the attention it had in its former life. [more]

Deserted. 2010. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 1200 x 900 mm.

Study. 2010. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 600 x 500 mm.

Riverbed. 2010. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 600 x 500 mm.

SEEN THIS CENTURY Exhibition at The Judith Anderson Gallery

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'...The use of found objects in art is not new but Alexander Bartleet adds his own variation. He fills the picture space with a bewildering range of common items from hinges to cheap jewellery to give what Warwick Brown calls “the sense of a seething, energised mass.” Bartleet then alters their “realness” to “painterliness” by over-brushing paint and then rubbing back. The objects now look super-real but their original nature changes as they become harmonised parts of an abstract painting … like the paint dribbles in a Jackson Pollock.'

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36 52’S 174°42’E, 2009. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 1200 mm x 900 mm

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Rough Section. 2009. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 600 x 500 mm.

BMW Art Awards - Emerging Artist Award

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Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Thursday October 16 2008 - 03:28pm

On Wednesday night Bob McMillan of Team McMillan BMW presented cheques for $10,000 each to one of New Zealand’s leading artists and to one of the country’s newly emerging artists.

Alexander Bartleet’s work .00027735 of an Acre was the sole prize winner in the Team McMillan Emerging Artists Awards judged by arts writer Warwick Brown. more

.00027735 of an Acre, 2008. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 1200 mm x 900 mm

Works 2008

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Rough, 2008. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 600 x 500 mm.

Skinned, 2008. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 600 x 500 mm.

Space junk, 2008. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 710 x 560 mm.

Street chase, 2008. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas.

Untitled 01, 2008, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 1200 mm x 900 mm.

Untitled 02, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 1200 mm x 900 mm.

Carnage, 2008. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 790 mm x 200 mm.

Finalist for the 16th Annual Wallace Art Awards

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The work 'It Remains II' is showing at The Salon de Refusé and is composed of the Finalists not chosen in the Traveling Exhibition. It is open for public viewing from 4 September until 1 October at The Wallace Arts Trust Gallery, 305 Queen Street, Auckland City.

It Remains II, 1220mm x 920mm, items and acrylic on canvas

Alexander Bartleet Wins Country's Biggest Student Art Prize

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1st place in The Mazda Emerging Artist Award and a cash prize of $10,000.
'It Remains, Alexander Bartleet'

Judged by John Daly-Peoples, art critic and columnist of the National Business Review.

The Auckland resident was chosen as the Mazda Emerging Artist of the year over 83 other Fine Art students from throughout New Zealand. The talented 21 year old is also a finalist in the prestigious Wallace Art Awards.

His winning piece, entitled ‘It Remains’ was described by judge John Daly-Peoples as “something between a painting, sculpture and installation.” Alexander created it by collecting various objects (look closely and you’ll see screws, buckles and bottle tops) and exploring surfaces by creating layers and layers of objects and paint.

“This work - something between a painting, sculpture and installation - has its historical roots in the work of the early cubists and experimental artists who took objects from their immediate enjoinment and included both as painted and actual objects in their works.
It has more recent connections to the work of the British sculptor Rachel Whiteread and the Boyle Family who make casts of the real world whether it be a roadway or a building.
The assemblage of objects is a representation of the cluttered table in the workroom or it could be the site of a forensic examination or even a view of a post apocalyptic landscape. Whatever the scene is, it is one which conjures up memories of the past, covered with the patina of history.”

This painting was auctioned at the Mazda Foundation Black Tie Dinner on Thursday 30 August and sold for $2500.

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It Remains I, 600mm x 500mm, items and acrylic on canvas

It Remains I, macro image

(1st place winner of The Mazda Emerging Artist Awards held at the Hilton from the 27th - 1st of September)

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'I Spy...' 600mm x 500mm, items and acrylic on canvas

'I Spy...' Macro Image

Nz Art Monthly Review December 06 / January 07

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Oh, the Relief! A review of the work of Alexander Bartleet by Warwick Brown. Like many critics and dealers, I try to get to the Auckland arts graduate shows. They are an opportunity to take the pulse of the young art scene, to see what trends are taking hold, and what the general standard is. Much of the time I feel that the artists are playing around and not addressing the real challenge - to make work that will stand the test of time.[more]

Graduation Exhibition November 2006

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Cream and Black 06 1030 mm x 760 mm, items & acrylic on canvas

Cream and Black 06, macro image

Cream and Black 06, macro image

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Brown and Black 06, 1030 mm x 760 mm, collected materials & acrylic on canvas

Brown and Black 06, macro image

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Black and White 06, 1200 mm x 900 mm, items & acrylic on canvas

Black and White 06, Macro Image

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Red and Black 06, 900 mm x 600 mm, items & acrylic on canvas

Red and Black 06, Macro image

Please email or call if interested. Prices as labeled.

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Artist Statement November 2006

Our enthusiasm for locating and studying the unfamiliar is something we all possess. As I have developed a more nuanced awareness, I have found it increasingly difficult to locate new, exciting and unknown territories to explore.

Initially, I believed that beauty and order only existed within organic materials, and disorder only in industrial and urban matter, but have subsequently found this to be untrue. Even dilapidated industrial and urban environments exhibit exciting and unique realms. This led towards the discovery of significant habitats and aesthetics found in our cities and urban environments.

I am attracted to things that uncover evidence of their past. In particular surfaces that become blemished and worn over time, exposing sediments, histories and provenances. This fascination has it’s origin in the cliff edge at the bottom of my garden. These surfaces instilled a curiosity in layered strata that expose past events and processes.

I began to explore different methods that capture and record an event or period of change rather then merely discovering them. Artist Daniel Spoerri, who was part of the movement ‘New Realism’[1], made pieces such as ‘Hungarian Meal Trap Picture 1963’[2] where he preserved an after meal tabletop and presented it as an artwork. My current process involves an interaction that also represents and indicates a recorded event in time.

I prefer to use found objects as opposed to their transferred or representational images. Preserved within the surfaces, disregarded and forgotten objects are presented in a new light. Artist Phillip Guston paints his subjects as if “one had never seen them before”[3]. I also aim to achieve this unfamiliarity with my subjects, to reactivate them within the context of art and offer fresh prospects and potential to adopt new relationships and characteristics.

Alexander Bartleet, November 2006

[1] Morat, F. (2005). "New Realism."; A Poetic Recycling of Reality A Movement, A Period: 16. http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-newrea-EN/ENS-newrea-EN.htm [2] www.danielspoerri.org/danielweb [3] Guston, P. (1978). "Phillip Guston Talking." Year 3 theory journal AUT Visual Arts: 141-145.

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Arworks : September - October 2006

Orange White and Black 06, 250 mm x 250 mm, items and acrylic on canvas

Industrial Scraps 2 06, 360 mm x 280 mm, card, shell and acrylic on canvas SOLD

Object in the Rough 06 , 900 mm x 600 mm, model making debrief & acrylic SOLD

'Allocated Standing' mid year Exhibition

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St Paul St Gallery 1. 3rd-11th August.

Other Artists included.
Zander Van OldenBorgh
Molly Wolf Mache
Victoria Leuchars
Stephanie Hall
Ruth Dobbie

Cinder 06, 1200 mm x 900 mm, river sand, grass & acrylic on canvas SOLD

Labrador 06, 1200 mm x 900 mm, river sand, grass & acrylic on canvas SOLD

Green Machine 06, 900 mm x 600 mm, sand, grass & acrylic on canvas SOLD

Red Rocket 06, 1030 mm x 760 mm, grass, river sand & acrylic on canvas SOLD

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Stamped Series June 2006

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alexbartleet@gmail.com

Oyster Shell Objects 4 06, 320 mm x 270 mm, Oyster shells & acrylic in frame

The Red Telephone in Space 06, 600mm x 900mm, clay & acrylic on canvas

Terrain 1 06, 250 mm x 250 mm, Sandy Bay - East Coast NZ stamped surface & acrylic on canvas

Terrain 2 06, 250 mm x 250 mm, Sandy Bay - East Coast NZ stamped surface & acrylic on canvas

Artworks December 2005

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Contact me : alexbartleet@gmail.com

Curcuit Board 05, 300 mm x 250 mm, leaf and board in frame

Curcuit Board 2, 200 mm x 150 mm, leaf and board in frame

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Kimono 1 of 5 05, 720 mm x 660 mm, acrylic on pine off cuts

Kimono 2 of 5 05, 720 mm x 660 mm aprox, acrylic on pine off cuts

Kimono 3 of 5 05, 720 mm x 660 mm, acrylic on pine off cuts

Kimono 4 of 5 05, 350 mm x 400 mm, acrylic on pine off cuts

alexbartleet@gmail.com
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