Fine Art Selected Exhibitions, One Man
2023 New Works, Creative Arts Napier, Napier (14-27 April)
2021 New Works, Creative Arts Napier, Napier (21 October – 4 November)
2019 How green was my trevally: Paintings and prints by John Tarlton, Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History. Palmerston North (9 March-August)
2018 New paintings, Creative Arts Napier. Napier (13-26 April)
2017 “Food for Thought” Paintings, Creative Arts Napier. Napier (March 3-10)
2016 Paintings and prints, Creative Arts Napier. Napier (January 8-28)
2014 Paintings and Prints, Kelley Gallery, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. Venice Beach (2 February-1 March)
2010 New Works, Southbank Institute of Technology Art Gallery. Brisbane (1-12 March)
2001 Brisbane City Council (Bulimba Library)
1999 Southbank Institute of Tafe (Morningside Gallery) Brisbane
1993 Warwick Brown Gallery, Auckland
1992 RKS Art, Auckland
l991 RKS Art, Auckland
1990 RKS Art, Auckland
1990 Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
1989 RKS Art, Auckland
1989 Lopdell House, Titirangi
1988 Charlotte H. Galleries, Auckland
1988 Rotorua City Art Gallery, Rotorua
1979 Gallerie Legard, Wellington
1978 Rotorua City Art Gallery, Rotorua
1978 Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
1977 Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
1977 Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
Fine Art Selected Exhibitions, Group
2014 South Bay Focus (Juried), Torrance Art Museum (8 November – 5 December)
2004 Technical and Further Education (Tafe) Teachers and Tutors Group Exhibition, Southbank Insitute of Tafe
2003 Tafe Teachers and Tutors Group Exhibition, Southbank Institute of Tafe
2002 Brisbane Illustrators Group (American Bookstore, Brisbane)
2002 Tafe Teachers and Tutors Group Exhibition, Southbank Institute of Tafe
2000 Brodie/Tarlton/White. Space 43, Brisbane
2000 Christmas Exhibition. 482 Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Nola Holmwood Portrait Award (finalist) ASA Gallery, Auckland
1996 Waitakere Licensing Trust Art Award Exhibition, Henderson, N.Z.
1996 “Celebrating the New Zealand Coastline,” North Shore City Art Award
1996 Tokoroa Art Award Exhibition (finalist)
1996 Art and Science Selected Group Exhibition, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland
1996 Pumphouse Art Award (Award winner), North Shore City
1996 Norsewear Art Award Exhibition, Auckland
1995 James Wallace Trust Art Award, Auckland
1995 James Wallace Trust Finalist Art Award, Auckland
1995 Copy Art (Artist Alliance), Outreach, Auckland
1995 Self Portraits, Outreach, Auckland
1995 The Alphabet Show, Pakuranga Community Centre, Pakuranga
1994 Out of the Black (Artists’ Alliance), Outreach, Auckland
1994 Selected Prints, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland
1993 Invited Group Exhibition, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland
1993 Modern Myths, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland
1992 Coastlines, Lopdell House, Titirangi
1992 Isolated and Immuned, Fischer Gallery, Pakuranga
1991 Invited Printmakers, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland
1991 The Nude Show Invitational, Charlotte H. Galleries, Auckland
1991 Drawing Invitational, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland
1991 Still Life Invitational, Charlotte H. Galleries, Auckland
1990 Self-Portrait Invitational, Canterbury Society of Arts, Christchurch
1990 Acquisitions Review, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
1990 Animals, Animals, Lopdell House, Titirangi
1990 The Wild West Show, Lopdell House, Titirangi
1990 The Realists, Charlotte H. Galleries, Auckland
1979 Figurative Artists, Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland
1979 Air New Zealand Rotorua Civic Art Award, Rotorua
1979 New Year, New Works, Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
1978 Works for Children, Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland
1978 Rangitoto Special, Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland
1978 New Year, New Works, Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
1977 Opening Group Exhibition, Rotorua City Art Gallery, Rotorua
1977 Group Print Show, Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland
1977 New Year, New Works, Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
1976 New Zealand Drawing Invitational, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
1976 Prints from the Permanent Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
1975 Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
1975 Barrington Gallery, Auckland
Collections
Represented in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, United States and the public collections of:
Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History. Palmerston North, New Zealand
Te Papa, New Zealand National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Rotorua City Art Gallery, Rotorua, New Zealand
Waikato Museum of History and Art, Hamilton, New Zealand
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
State University of New York at Albany
Commissions
Fletcher Fishing Industries Drawing Suite, Fletcher Industries, l989
Selected References Concerning My Art (Fine Arts)
Brown, Warrick. (1996). Another 100 New Zealand Artists. Auckland: Godwit Press.
New Zealand Herald, Oct 14, 1993
Auckland Star, Oct 10, 1993
Art New Zealand, Spring 1992
New Zealand Listener, April 29, 1991
Art New Zealand, Winter, 1991
Waikato Museum of Art and History (1990)
(Catalogue: Housebound (works by John Tarlton))
Art New Zealand, Summer, 1989
New Zealand Listener, Oct 14, 1989
Art New Zealand, Summer, 1988
New Zealand Listener, July 30, 1988
© 2023 by John Tarlton. All rights reserved.
Very good.