Chronology

1940
Born Palmerston North, New Zealand
1963
Emigrated to England
1974
Died in a road accident, London, England

Studies

1959–62
Studied sculpture at Ilam Art School, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
1964–67
Studied sculpture at Royal College of Art, London, England

Teaching Appointments

1966
Taught sculpture at Royal College of Art, London, England
1967–72
Taught sculpture at Central School of Art (now Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design), London, England
1968
Taught sculpture at Coventry College of Art, Coventry, England
1969
Visiting Lecturer, Elam School of Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
1972–74
Principal Lecturer, Central School of Art (now Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design), London, England

Awards

1963
New Zealand Arts Council Award
1969
Bickerton-Widdowson Trust Memorial Scholarship, New Zealand
Commissions
1962
‘Untitled’, Qantas Airways Limited, Corner of Colombo and Gloucester Streets, Christchurch, New Zealand
1972
‘Flying Cross’, Peter Stuyvesant City Sculpture Project, North Cross roundabout, Plymouth, England (now located at Lutterworth Grammar School and Community College, Lutterworth, England)

Solo Exhibitions

2013
A record of structure, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
John Panting: Spatial Constructions, Adam Art Gallery | Te Pataka Toi, Wellington, New Zealand
2012
John Panting: Sculpture, Poussin Gallery, London, England
2007
John Panting Rediscovered, Poussin Gallery, London, England
1984
John Panting, Te Manawa | Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North, New Zealand
1975–77
John Panting 1940–1974: Sculpture, Serpentine Gallery, London, England; Auckland City Art Gallery (now Auckland Art Gallery | Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand), Auckland, New Zealand; Manawatu Art Gallery (now Te Manawa | Museum of Art, Science and History), Palmerston North, New Zealand; National Art Gallery (now Museum of New Zealand | Te Papa Tongarewa), Wellington, New Zealand; The Canterbury Society of Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1973
John Panting, Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, England
John Panting, Primo Piano, Rome, Italy
1972
John Panting: sculpture, prints, drawings, Manawatu Art Gallery (now Te Manawa | Museum of Art, Science and History), Palmerston North, New Zealand and touring NZ
John Panting, Galerie Swart, Amsterdam, Netherlands
John Panting: Sculpture and Prints from London, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand and touring NZ
1971
John Panting: Sculpture 1969–71, West of England Academy, Bristol, England
1969
John Panting: Prints and Sculpture, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
1968
John Panting, Galerie Swart, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1967
John Panting, Galerie Swart, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Joint Exhibitions

2012
Formal Abstraction: Panting and Sydow, Te Manawa | Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North, New Zealand
1965
Patrick Hughes and John Panting, Hanover Gallery, London, England

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013
The Schaeffer Collection, Woollaston Estates, Mahana, New Zealand
2011
United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
2010
From Floor to Sky: British Sculpture and the Studio Experience, Ambika P3, London, England
2008
Poussin Review 2008: form and space, Poussin Gallery, London, England
Glenn Schaeffer Collection: Selected Works, RH Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
Ten Great Works from the Sixties and Seventies, Poussin Gallery, London, England
2007
Fast Forward, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1991
UK Works: New Zealand Artists in London in the 1960s, National Art Gallery (now Museum of New Zealand | Te Papa Tongarewa), Wellington, New Zealand
1988
From Epstein to Matchitt: A Survey of Sculpture Acquisitions 1957–1987, National Art Gallery (now Museum of New Zealand | Te Papa Tongarewa), Wellington, New Zealand
1982
Sculpture from the permenant collection, National Art Gallery (now Museum of New Zealand | Te Papa Tongarewa), Wellington, New Zealand
1981
Queen Elizabeth College Jubilee Exhibition, Manawatu Art Gallery (now Te Manawa | Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North, New Zealand), Palmerston North, New Zealand
British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1980
Sculpture in the Highlands: Landmark and Glenshee, The Scottish Sculpture Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland
Bernard Meadows at the Royal College of Art 1960–1980, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Occasional Pieces: Chairs, tables and functional objects, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England
1979
Furniture to Sculpture, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Taranaki Challenge, Manawatu Art Gallery (now Te Manawa | Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North, New Zealand), Palmerston North, New Zealand
1978
Critic’s Choice: 1978 Selection by John McEwen, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
1977
Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Battersea Park, London
Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture in Microcosm: maquettes, drawings and related material, Redfern Gallery, London
1976
Sculpture for the Collection: Purchases by Bryan Kneale for the Arts Council of Great Britain, Arts Council Gallery, London and touring UK
1975
12  New Zealand Artists (part of 6th Mildura Sculpture Triennial), Ozone Theatre, Mildura, Victoria
1974
Square Collection: Works Bought for the Arts Council by Lord Dufferin, Arts Council Gallery, London
1973–74
Six New Zealand Artists: John Panting, Stephen Furlonger, Boyd Webb, Terry Powell, Darcy Lange and Ken Griffiths, New Zealand High Commission, London; Robert McDougall Art Gallery (now Christchurch Art Gallery | Te Puna o Waiwhetu), New Zealand
1972
City Sculpture Project, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
British Sculptors '72, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
British Sculptors 72: Smaller works, maquettes, drawings relating to the current exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, Redfern Gallery, London
Open Air Sculpture Exhibition, Holland Park, London
Eight Individuals: Sculpture and drawings chosen by Bryan Robertson for the Arts Council Collection, Southampton Art Gallery, Hampshire, England and touring UK
Peter Stuyvesant Sculpture in the City Project, Plymouth, Devon, UK
1971
2nd Internationale Kunstmesse: Art 2’71 (Galerie Stampa), Basel, Switzerland
Selections from the ‘The Ala Story Collection’ of Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, USA
1970
3rd Salon International de Galeries Pilotes (Axiom Gallery), Paris France and Luasane, Switzerland
3rd Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, Musée des Arts Décoratifs de la Ville de Lausanne and Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Richard Feigen Graphics, New York, NY, USA
Open Air Exhibition, Ledlanet, Kinross Shire, Scotland
Visions, Projects, Proposals, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, England
1968
VAT 68, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, England
Survey ’68, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Sculpture in the City, City of London Festival, England
Burleighfield House Open Air Exhibition, Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, England
1967
New Generation RCA, Galerie Givaudon, Paris, France
Sculpture 60–66 from the Arts Council Collection, Cumberland House Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth and touring UK
1966
Structure ’66, National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
1965
Towards Arts II: Sculptors from the Royal College of Art, Arts Council Gallery, London and touring UK
1961
Canterbury Society of Arts Autumn Exhibition, Canterbury Society of Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand

Selected Bibliography

6th Mildura Sculpture Exhibition: An Opening Feature for Arts Victoria 75 [ex. cat], Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, 1975
Benyon, Margaret. VAT 68, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 1968
Barry, Martin. ‘John Panting, 1940–1974’, Studio International, Volume 190, Number 978, November/December 1975, p. 247
Brown, Gordon. ‘Recent Exhibitions in Auckland: John Panting’, Ascent: A Journal of the Arts in New Zealand, Volume 1 No. 4, November 1969, The Caxton Press, Christchurch
Brown, Phil. ‘Built to last: Timeless works testify to a life cut short’, Brisbane News, 4–10 September 2013
Buckman, David. Artists in Britain Since 1945, Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol, 2006
Cavanagh, Terry. Public Sculpture of Leicestershire and Rutland, Liverpool University Press, 2000
Clatworthy, Robert. ‘John Panting’ [obituary], The Times, 10 August 1974
Coley, John, The Robert McDougall Art Gallery: A profile of fhe art gallery of the City of Christchurch 1932–82, Christchurch City Council, Christchurch, 1982
Cornish, Sam. John Panting: Sculpture, Sansom and Company, Bristol, 2012
Cornish, Sam. A record of structure [ex. cat], Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, 2013
Drew, Joanna and Grayson, Sue, John Panting 1940–1974: Sculpture [ex. cat.], Serpentine Gallery, London; Arts Council of Great Britain, London; and Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, Wellington, 1975
Dunn, Michael. New Zealand Sculpture: A History, Auckland University Press, 2002
Green, Tony. ‘Sculpture: John Panting (1940–1974)’, Spleen, December 1976, p. 17
Greenwood, Robin; Kardia, Peter; and Wood, Jon. John Panting Rediscovered [ex. cat.], Poussin Gallery, London, 2007
Hay, Jennifer. ‘John Panting: New Zealand’s New Generation Sculptor’, The Journal of New Zealand Art History, Volume 25, 2004, p. 58
Heath, Jane. Occasional Pieces: Chairs, tables and functional objects, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 1980 
‘John Panting’, Ascent: A Journal of the Arts in New Zealand, Volume 1, Number 4, The Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1969, p. 72–73
John Panting: sculpture, prints, drawings [ex. cat.], Manawatu Art Gallery, 1972
Kardia, Peter and Wood, Jon. John Panting Rediscovered [ex. cat.], Poussin Gallery, London, 2007 
Keith, Hamish. ‘NZ sculptor has exhibition and looks at the scene here’, The Auckland Star, 24 July 1969, p. 7
McEwen, John. ‘Art: John Panting’ [obituary], The Spectator, 20 September 1975, pp. 26–27
Meadows, Bernard. ‘Sculpture’, The Times, 2 November 1967
Neat, Timothy.   Sculpture in the Highlands: Landmark and Glenshee, The Scottish Sculpture Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1980
News: The Journal of the Canterbury Society of Arts, Number Nine, September 1966
Packer, William. ‘Open Structures: William Packer looks at the career of John Panting’, Art and Artists, Volume 7, Number 12, March 1973, p. 29
Panting, John. ‘Plymouth: John Panting’, Studio International, July/August 1972, p.27
Panting, John. Sculpture in Glass-fibre: The use of polyester resin and glass-fibre in sculpture, Lund Humphries/Royal College of Art, London, 1972
Panting, John. ‘Statement’, Square Collection: works bought for the Arts Council by Lord Dufferin, Arts Council, 1974, London, p. 93
‘The Exhibitions: John Panting, Sculpture, 9–26 April’, The Journal of the Canterbury Society of Arts, No. Seventy-Two, March/April 1977
Westley, Hester and Le Grice, Malcolm. From Floor to Sky: The Experience of the Art School Studio, A & C Black Publishers Ltd, London, 2010

Selected Collections

Tate Gallery, London, England
Museum of New Zealand | Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Arts Council Collection, London, England
Government Art Collection (Department of Culture, Media and Sport), London, England
Auckland Art Gallery | Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery | Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow University, Scotland
Te Manawa | Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Brunel University, London, England
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
Lutterworth Grammar School and Community College, Lutterworth, England
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands