Reflections on – Abandoned book study
Artist and curator Anja Loughhead examines ‘Abandoned book study’ by Robert Motherwell
Categories: Reflections on, Tyler Graphics Ltd
Paper Rain: Rauschenberg, the document & archive
Curatorial assistant David Greenhalgh reflects on the use of documents and archival material in Rauschenberg’s work.
Categories: Gemini GEL • Tags: Robert Rauschenberg
The Gemini party photo
This incredible photo features many well-known artists from Tyler’s printing career. But a question remains unanswered: Who is the photographer?
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL
Reflections on – The English still life series
Marking the beginning of the new ongoing series ‘Reflections on’, this month Assistant Curator of the Kenneth Tyler Collection Ella Morrison responds to the six lithographs that comprise Joe Goode’s ‘The English still life series’ (1967).
Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL, Gemini Ltd., Reflections on • Tags: Gemini GEL, lithography
Malcolm Morley (1931-2018)
Malcolm Morley was an artist who defied categorisation during his artistic career. With great sadness, we reflect here on a dynamic artist and his work.
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes • Tags: Malcolm Morley, photorealism, Super Realism
David Hockney’s cancellation proofs
In conjunction with the exhibition ‘David Hockney Prints’ a selection of cancellation proofs are currently on display at the National Gallery of Australia, offering viewers a rare glimpse at this little known practice of print workshops.
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL • Tags: Alice Desmond, Art, canberra, cancellation proofs, David Hockney, hockney, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, prints, Tyler Collection
Remembering Jennie Tomao
Gina Tomao was one of the first artists to make prints with Kenneth Tyler at his newly established custom printing shop, Gemini Ltd., in Los Angeles California. Unfortunately very little has been published about Tomao, but recently her son Charles Lynn Bragg kindly shared some memories of his mother.
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David Hockney prints: the National Gallery of Australia Collection
“I love new mediums. I think mediums can turn you on, they can excite you; they always let you do something in a different way”
Categories: Exhibitions
Art + Sound: David Hockney playlist
Australian duo The Aston Shuffle have created a playlist for the NGA’s Art+Sound pop-up program, inspired by our exhibition ‘David Hocnkey’s prints’. “We have approached the playlist in two different parts. Part one includes cutting edge and celebrated artists from the 60’s and 70’s who, like Hockney, pushed boundaries in their respective fields and who have since become iconic to that time. A number of these artists were associated with the emergence of the pop art movement, like David Bowie […]
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Backwards intaglio: making Frank Stella’s ‘Swan Engravings’
With the support of the Tyler Graphics team, Frank Stella was able to create innovative prints that radically reinterpreted the possibilities of printmaking processes and materials. One of our favourite stories about working with Stella is Rodney Konopaki’s recollections of using 17,000 Q-tips to remove ink from the intaglio plates for the Swan engravings series. This project, which developed concurrently with the ground-breaking Circuits series, was radical for the way sculptural cut-offs were assembled onto a board to create a […]
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Art, artists, etching, Frank Stella, ink, intaglio, printmaking, prints, rodney konopaki, swan engravings
James Rosenquist (1933-2017)
We were saddened to hear news over the weekend that James Rosenquist passed away on 31 March 2017 in New York City.
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Technique Tuesday: Frank Stella’s ‘Circuits’ series
Frank Stella’s Circuits series 1982–84 represents a dramatic shift in Stella’s attitude toward printmaking.
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Exhibitions, Technique Tuesday, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Abstract Art, American Art, Art, Circuits series, Exhibition, Frank Stella, matrix, National Gallery of Australia, New York, NGA, printmaking, prints, Relief painting, relief printing, relief prints, sculpture, Stella, technique, Technique Tuesday, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd, woodblock
Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection
‘Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection’ is on display now at the National Gallery of Australia. Drawn from the NGA’s collection of over 1,100 editioned prints, experimental proofs and matrices by Frank Stella, the exhibition shares the full trajectory of Frank Stella’s innovative printmaking career. Take a sneak peek inside
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Technique Tuesday: Frank Stella’s Moby Dick domes
The creation of the three dimensional Moby Dick (domes) series 1992 was one of the most technically challenging printmaking projects that Kenneth Tyler and Stella undertook in over thirty years of collaboration. To achieve their ambition of creating an edition of sculptural prints, Tyler and his team spent nearly six years perfecting a process that literally pushed printmaking into a new dimension.
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Technique Tuesday, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Art, artists, Behind-the-scenes, etching, Frank Stella, Herman Melville, intaglio, Ken Tyler, Kenneth Tyler, lithography, Moby Dick, National Gallery of Australia, paper, papermaking, printmaking, prints, relief printing, Stella, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd, works on paper
