| |  Born 1949, Adelaide
Lives and works in Newcastle
Graduate in Humanities, Flinder University South Australia
Doctorate University of Technology, Sydney
Lecturer at UTS School of Design, Communication and Information Technology, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2008 | 'Only emotion endures', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2007 | 'Multiple Choice', Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
| | 'Fresh Concrete', John Miller Gallery, Newcastle
| | 'Imagine Silence', Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
| | 2004 | 'Errrorism', Multiple Box, Sydney
| | 'Art Signs and Word Sculptures', Banning + Low, Washington DC
| | 'Signs of Newcastle', RocketArt, Newcastle
| | 2003 | 'Exit Strategy', The Studio, Sydney Opera House
| | 'Street Talk', Banning Gallery, New York
| | 2002 | 'Public Works', Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
| | 2001 | 'One Two Many', Multiple Box, Sydney
| | 1998 | 'Versions: Perversions, Subversions and Verse', Ubu Gallery, New York
| | 1997 | 'Hear the Art', The Eagle Gallery, London
| | 1996 | 'Multiple Pleasures', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1994 | 'Art Allergy', Rhumbarellas Gallery, Melbourne
| | 'Between the Lines', United Artists Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1983 | 'Fast Art', Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
| | 'Ideagraphics', Rosyln Oxley,, Sydney
| | 1981 | 'Inside Outside', Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
| | 1980 | 'Word Works 2', Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 'Word Works', Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
| | 1978 | 'The Everlasting Stone', Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery
| | 1973 | 'Soft Riots', Watters Gallery, Sydney
| | 1970 | 'Uck', Llewellyn Gallery, Adelaide
| | 2008_'Only Emotion Endures', Australian Galleries, Sydney 2008_'Subvert I Sing', Multiple Box, Sydney
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Group Exhibitions | | | 2008 | Mapping Correspondences: Mail Art in the 21st Century, the Center for
| | Book Arts, New York
| | Back to the City, Newcastle
| | 2006 | Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
| | Farmyard Challenge, Field Gallery, Newcastle
| | Who cares? Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
| | 2005 | Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
| | 2004 | HunterArt1: art tourist, at five galleries in the Hunter Valley, coordinated by Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
| | 2003 | The Contemporary Art Fair, Cologne, represented by Galerie Seippel
| | Art Australia, Germany - Galerie Seippel, Cologne; and touring
| | The National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
| | Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi - Sydney
| | 2002 | Sculpture in the City, Martin Place, Sydney
| | Text Art Object (with Ruark Lewis and Jennifer Joseph), Conny, Dietzschold Gallery, Cologne
| | Text Art Multiples, Multiple Box Sydney
| | 2001 | Feedback: Total Text Meeting, Museumshop of the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
| | 2000 | Signed 2000, Maisenbacher Art Gallery, Trier, Germany
| | 1999 | Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
| | Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi - Sydney
| | 1998 | Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi - Sydney
| | Verve: Poetic Visuals and Visual Poetry, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | 1996 | Artist Books, Artists’ Secrets, Goethe Institute, Sydney and touring
| | The Subverted Object, Ubu Gallery, New York
| | Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries and touring
| | 1995 | Fragile Object, Australian Embassy, Washington D.C. and touring
| | Bi-annual Exhibition, Pacific Center for Book Arts, San Francisco
| | 1994 | The Fremantle Print Award
| | 1993 | Fluxus and Beyond, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
| | Lightworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
| | Luminaries: illuminated art, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
| | The Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
| | 1992 | The 9th Biennale of Sydney, The Boundary Rider
| | The Trial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
| | 1991 | Art Freeway, Newcastle artists at Jan Taylor Gallery, Sydney
| | Cross the Creek, The University of Newcastle
| | 1990 | Shifting Ground, Newcastle artists at the Art Gallery of NSW
| | Lake Macquarie Gallery Art Prize Exhibition, NSW
| | Alice 125, Gryphon Gallery, University of Melbourne
| | 1989 | Visual Poetics: Concrete Poetry and its Contexts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
| | Words on Walls, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1987 | The Age of Collage, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
| | The Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
| | 1986 | International Concrete Poetry Archive, Oxford, at Wolfson College
| | Ex-Patriates or Exiles, Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery
| | 1985 | The International Contemporary Art Fair, London
| | 1984 | Artists in the Field, Darwin Museum and Art Gallery
| | 1983 | Ideas on Ice, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
| | Anzart-in-Hobart, Tasmania
| | 1982 | The Biennale of Sydney, and the Festival of Sydney
| | Recent Sculpture in South Australia, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide
| | Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights, Sydney
| | The Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932-82, Art Gallery of NSW
| | 1981 | The First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
| | See Hear: 7 Visual Poets, Niagra Lane Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1980 | The Security Show, Ewing Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
| | 1978 | ACT 1 Performance Art Festival, Canberra
| | 1975 | Post Object Art in Australia and New Zealand, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
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Bibliography'Subvert I Sing', Red Fox Press, Ireland, 2008
'Notes towards Employment' (poetry) Picaro Press, Warners Bay NSW, 2006
'Roadsigned' (postcard pack) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005
'Public Works' (catalogue), Thorny Devil Press with the School of Design,
Communication and Information Technology, University of Newcastle, 2002
'City Rubbings' (catalogue), Thorny Devil Press, Newcastle, Australia, 2002
'Hear the Art' (catalogue), Thorny Devil Press, Newcastle, Australia, 1997
'Multiple Pleasures' (catalogue), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1996
'The Sydney Morning', Volumes 1 – 4 (editioned print folios), 1989-94
'Five O’Clock Shadows' (poetry), Thorny Devil Press, Newcastle, 1989
'Nearer by Far' (poetry), University of Queensland Press, 1986
'Headlines to the Heart' (poetry, with drawings by Maze Turner), Pothole Press, London, 1985
'Diverse Voice', International Poetry Archive, Oxford, 1985
'Signs of Australia' (photographs), Penguin Books Australia, 1982
'Word Works: Airpoet', (editioned print folio), 1979
'The Friendly Street Poetry Reader' (editor), Adelaide University Press, 1977
'Domestic Hardcore' (poetry), University of Queensland Press, 1975
'Soft Riots' (poetry), University of Queensland Press, 1972
Richard Tipping’s poetry has been included in over thirty anthologies including:
'The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry', edited by Phillip Mead
and John Tranter and the 'New Oxford Book of Australian Verse', edited by
Les Murray.
Awards2002 Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council, publication grant
1996 Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council, project grant
1996 The Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery sculpture commission
1996 The Roland Robinson Literary Award, Lake Macquarie, NSW
1994 Scarp Magazine Visual Poetry Award, Wollongong
1994 Arts Design Industry Award, NSW Ministry for the Arts
1984-88 Archival Film Program, Australia Council, grants for film documentaries
1984 Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, overseas studio residence (Milan)
1984 Literature Board, Australia Council, overseas studio residence (Venice)
1984 Art Gallery of NSW, Dyason Bequest (with Maizie Turner)
1981 Visual Arts Board, special projects grant
1981 Literature Board, Australia Council, writing grant
1973 Literature Board, Australia Council, Young Writers’s Fellowship
1972 Commonwealth Literary Fund, special projects grant
1972 The Harri Jones Memorial Award for Poetry
CollectionsArt Gallery of NSW
Art Gallery of South Australia
Beinecker Library, Yale University
Buffalo University
Deutsches Telekommunication Museum, Frankfurt
Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles
Gold Coast Regional Gallery
Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery
Lismore Regional Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Library, Canberra;
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery
Sackner Archive of Visual Concrete Poetry, Miami
State Library of Victoria
State Library of Queensland
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Commissions
| 2008 | The Adelaide Showground Art Fence, 115 metres
long, cast aluminium Hearth, sun lettering on lawn,15metres square, for
the White Street Project, Frankston City Council, Victoria | 2004
| Sign Language, huge hand-painted signs for The Big Laugh Comedy Festival, Sydney
| 2005
| Sign Language, huge hand-painted signs for The Big Laugh Comedy Festival, Sydney
| 2002
| Signed Signs, permanent signworks installation
for the precinct of the Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane | 2000
| Watermark, a 15m long steel sculpture for the Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane
| 1999
| Art Lifts: Lifting Art, an installation in the
two lifts of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. The inaugural
work of an ongoing artist series.
| | 1999 | Signs Signed, an installation of signworks in
Salvatorplaz, Munich, as a part of Piazza: Language and Art, organised
by Art Circolo with theLiteraturhaus, Munich | 1998
| Sounding Silence, a granite sculpture for
Cataract Gorge, Launceston, funded by Launceston City Council with the
Australia Council | 1997
| Hear the Art, a 5m diameter lightwork on the façade of Australia House, London,
as a part of NewImage, Australian and Britain into the 21st Century,
commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | 1996
| Hear the Art (Earth Heart), a 22m diameter brick
wordwork for the grounds of Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW | 1993
| The Shouting Zone (Quiet), a large wall
installation in Swanston Street, Melbourne, for the 5th Australian
Sculpture Triennial | 1992
| Smothered, a 3 metre animated neon work for the
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (permanent collection) | 1992
| Road Works, two 18 metre ’poem banners’ on a
city bridge, for the 9th Biennale of Sydney (director, Anthony Bond) | 1990
| Shifting Ground, a large cloth ‘earthquake
crack’ on the facade of the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (with Caroline
Jones) | 1988
| Imaginaction, a cloth banner installation across
the whole front of the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (with Caroline Jones) | 1983
| Southern Crossing Hobart, installation of a
major lightwork on Mt Wellington’s ‘organpipe’ cliffs facing the city,
for Anzart-in-Hobart | 1982
| The Eternal Question, a circle of engraved granite blocks on the banks of
the River Torrens, for the Adelaide Festival; acquired by the Art
Gallery of South Australia – relocated to Light Square, 2003 | 1982
| Southern Crossing, installation of a major
lightwork on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, for the Festival of Sydney and
the Biennale of Sydney , in association with Clarke Perry Blackmore,
architects
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