Richard Tipping

Richard Tipping
Born 1949
Adelaide, Australia
Occupation Poet, artist
Nationality Australian
Citizenship Australia
Alma mater Flinders University, University of Technology Sydney
Website
www.richardtipping.net

Richard Kelly Tipping was born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1949 and studied film, philosophy and literature at Flinders University. He is a significant poet and artist working between image and language.[1] He began composing typographic concrete poetry on a manual typewriter in 1967, exploring the arrangement of letters on the page as a field of poetic composition. Literary concern is integral to his practice in word art and visual poetry.[2] In 1975 he co-founded the ongoing Friendly Street [3] poetry readings in Adelaide, and edited their first anthology in 1977. In the 1970s Tipping began collecting ironies and oddities in public signage through photography, and changing public signs[4][5] to make poetic messages. Signs of Australia published by Penguin Books in 1982 collected many of these found sign anomalies. Signature works from his explorations of public sign language include No Understanding in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.[6] His public art projects include the well known Watermark (2000)[7] steel sculpture (popularly known as 'Flood'[8]) on the Brisbane River which became the high water mark for a major flood in 2011. He continues to explore the physical qualities of language and making art with words, getting poetry off the page and into the streets. As a poet he is represented in many anthologies and has published five books. Richard Tipping is best known as a sculptor and word-artist who has had more than twenty solo exhibitions in Australia as well as in New York,[9] London, Munich, Cologne and Berlin. He is represented by Australian Galleries[10] in Sydney and Melbourne and is an associated artist with Greenaway Art Gallery,[11] Adelaide. Richard Tipping completed a doctorate in 2007 at the University of Technology Sydney titled Word Art Works: visual poetry and textual objects.

Richard Tipping edited The Word as Art special issue of Artlink (Vol 27 No.1, 2007),[12] The Friendly Street Poetry Reader (Adelaide University Press, 1977) and Mok (5 issues 1968–1969)[13] – the first of a wave of small magazines in late 1960s defining a shift in Australian poetry which became known as 'The Generation of 68'.

Tipping is represented in many important art collections, including the print collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the British Museum, London; The National Gallery of Australia,[14] Canberra; the State Galleries of New South Wales,[15] Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory; the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney [16] the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane; regional art galleries including Lake Macquarie, NSW; Lismore, NSW; Gold Coast, Qld; major libraries including the National Library, Canberra; the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW; the State Library of Victoria; the State Library of Queensland; and international art collections such as The Kommunication Museum, Frankfurt; the Sackner Archive of Visual Concrete Poetry, Miami; the Beinecker Library, Yale University; the Rare Books Collection, Buffalo University; the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles,

In the 1980s Tipping made documentary films on writers including David Malouf, Randolph Stow, Peter Porter, and Les Murray. For two decades he was a lecturer in communication and media arts at the University of Newcastle, NSW. He currently lives in Sydney.

Works

Books

Print Folios

Catalogues

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions More than 50 appearances in group exhibitions since 1975 including:

Film and video

External links

References

  1. ↑ Politics of Imagination: Richard Kelly Tipping and the Art and Technology of Words, Images and Objects by Sabrina Bleecker Caldwell, Doctoral thesis. (Australian National University, Canberra, 2008)
  2. ↑ Griffith University art collection. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
  3. ↑ Friendly Street. Retrieved on 24 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Sing Sign" Essay by Alex Selenitsch Retrieved 24 March 2012,
  5. ↑ Powerhouse Museum collection, artist Richard Tipping Retrieved 24 March 2012
  6. ↑ National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 29 September 2014
  7. ↑ Watermark Public artwork. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  8. ↑ Watermark flooded ABC News Retrieved 30 September 2014
  9. ↑ Review exhibition at Ubu Gallery, New York Times 8 January 1999. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
  10. ↑ Australian Galleries, artist Richard Tipping. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  11. ↑ Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "The Word as Art" Artlink (Vol 27 No.1, 2007). Retrieved on 29 September 2014.
  13. ↑ Mok in Australian National Library Trove. Retrieved on 29 September 2014.
  14. ↑ Prints and Printmaking, National Gallery of Australia, 99 images of works Retrieved 24 March 2012.
  15. ↑ Art Gallery of NSW, works. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
  16. ↑ Powerhouse Museum Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  17. ↑ Sculpture by the Sea Retrieved 30 September 2014
  18. ↑ Bibliotheca Librorum publisher Retrieved 30 September 2014
  19. ↑ Avoiding Myth and Message Retrieved 30 September 2014
  20. ↑ National Gallery of Australia Retrieved 30 September 2014
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