A young man with curly hair, wearing a button-up shirt, looking down at a piece of paper while working at a desk in a room with tools on the wall.
An antique printing press with a large wheel, metal rollers, and gears, situated in a workshop or storage area.

Adrian Bartlett’s Etching Press.

A Hughes and Kimber built c. 1813 for printing Admiralty Charts

Adrian Bartlett

1951-56           Bedales School

1957-61           Camberwell School of Art

1961-62           University of Durham.

Nominations and Awards

2002    Fellow Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

1999    Finalist Hunting/Observer prize

1997    Associate Member Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (ARE)

1996    Awarded Mohan Kishore Agrawal Silver Medal

1993    President of the London Group

1993    Honorary Member of the Printmakers’ Council

1992    Finalist Hunting/Observer prize

1979    Member of the London Group

1976    Chairman of the Printmakers’ Council

Solo Exhibitions

2007    Piers Feetham Gallery, London

2003    North House Gallery, Essex

2003    Chelsea Arts Club, London

2003    The Walk Gallery, London

1999    The Walk Gallery, London

1996    Morley Gallery, London

1989    Tsakalioti Museum, Greece

1988    Blenheim Gallery, London

1988    St Paul’s Girls’ School, London

1987    Oxford Gallery Oxford

1985    British Council, Athens

Public & Corporate Collections

Arts Council, Ashmolean Museum, Bank of America, Berlin Graphotek, British Council, British Museum, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Churchill Clinic, Department of Education and Science, Herbert Art Gallery Coventry, Jiangsu Museum China, McNay Art Museum Texas, Merchants’ National Bank Indianapolis, Morley College, Municipal Art Gallery Lodz, National Gallery of Australia, Oldham City Art Gallery, Royal Marsden Hospital, St Paul’s Girls’ School, St Thomas’s Hospital, Surrey Education Authority, Tate Gallery, Towner Eastbourne, Victoria and Albert Museum. His work is also represented in many private collections in the UK and worldwide.

Selected Group Exhibitions

Adrian Bartlett has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions since 1962. Regularly exhibiting with the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) and in several Open Print Competitions. He was selected twenty-five times for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition between 1972 -2013 and exhibited with the London Group for many years. He was represented at the London International Art Fair several times. In 1976 he was selected to represent the UK at the Florence Print Biennale. He participated in other exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, Morley Gallery, Michael Parkin Gallery, Piers Feetham Gallery London and Aldeburgh, Royal West of England Academy, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, The Municipal Art Gallery Lodz, The Walk Gallery and the Thumb Gallery.

Selected Commissions

2000    Mural at 20 Carlton Terrace commissioned by Anglo-American plc

Created the photographic visuals for composer Barry Anderson and performed at the Almeida Festival London(1985 and 1988) and at the Royal College of Music (1986)

1984    Featured on BBC2 Culture Show by Andrew Graham Dixon

1984    Set up etching and lithography workshop in Athens for Christies, Greece

Teaching & Lecturing

1962-99           Head of Printmaking and Tutor, Morley College and Visiting lecturer, Chelsea School of Art, London, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Wimbledon School of Art, London

1979-89           Director Morley Gallery

Selected Publications

Drawing and Painting the Landscape (Phaidon, 1982)

British Art in the Eighties with John Boulton-Smith. (Art and Culture, Bergen, 1983)

His work has been widely reviewed by writers and art critics in many publications.