| Beyond Print: Documenting the living history of the National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler Printmaking Collection

David Hockney: symbolic expressions of queer experience

June 16, 2020 by tylercollection

Image: David Hockney, A diver, paper pool 17 1978, handcoloured pressed paper pulp. NGA 79.2343.1-12, © David HockneyImage: Kenneth Tyler, David Hockney taking Polaroid shots of Tyler pool for the ‘Paper Pools’ series with friends looking on and ‘Day Pool with Three Blues’ framed as a screen in the background, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, 1979, photograph. NGA 180937 David Hockney moved to the United States from England in the early 1960s. The social and environmental conditions of […]

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Plastics and pathos: The making of Oldenburg’s Airflow

June 11, 2020 by tylercollection

Oldenburg’s ode to a car, and the complex plastic processes behind its manufacture

Categories: 3D Multiples • Tags: oldenburg

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Question: Helen Frankenthaler and the influence of Japanese art and culture

June 2, 2020 by tylercollection

Image 1: Robert Motherwell, Automatism A 1966, lithograph. NGA 84.2970 © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. VAGA/Copyright AgencyImage 2 Helen Frankenthaler, Other generations 1957, oil on canvas. NGA 73.330 © Helen FrankenthalerImage 3: Sam Francis, Turn 1972, screenprint. NGA 73.993 © Sam Francis. ARS/Copyright Agency Helen Frankenthaler emerged in the New York art scene during the 1950s. From the beginning, her approach to painting was both confident and personalised and she quickly affirmed her position within the second generation of Abstract Expressionism. […]

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To make a brushstroke look like a brushstroke

April 17, 2020 by tylercollection

by David Greenhalgh, Curatorial Assistant, Kenneth Tyler Collection. Roy Lichtenstein’s visual vocabulary of black outlines, block colour and Benday dots is well known. It was a style derived from commercial printing techniques and the distinct look of American comic books. But before his iconic Pop Art, Lichtenstein painted in the style of the Abstract Expressionists. From 1957 to 1960, he abandoned figuration to create large, colourful and patterned work, often using his shirt sleeve to push paint across canvas in […]

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PERCEPTION TEST

December 6, 2019 by tylercollection

The Lead relief series are an ironic critique of visual culture, a rhetorical proposition to the looming, unanswerable question – how indeed are these objects intended to nourish us if their message is always changing?

Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL

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Travelling through images: David Hockney in Mexico

November 28, 2019 by tylercollection

It’s 1984 in Mexico and David Hockney is about to create a new series using a new piece of technology…

Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Acatlan, hockney, lithography, Mexico, Moving focus, Oaxaca

Kenneth Tyler: In Conversation

May 30, 2019 by tylercollection

National Gallery of Australia Director Nick Mitzevich and Kenneth Tyler AO in conversation

Categories: Behind-the-scenes • Tags: california, Gemini GEL

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Garo Antreasian: A print pioneer

February 14, 2019 by tylercollection

In fond memory of printmaking pioneer Garo Antreasian

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Garo Antreasian, junewayne, lithography, Tamarind Lithography Workshop

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Reflections on – Bedford II

January 15, 2019 by tylercollection

Assistant curator Ella Morrison investigates Joan Mitchell’s Bedford II and the importance of colour to her work

Categories: Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Bedford Village, Joan Mitchell

Clogs, pulp and pressed flowers: Rauschenberg and Richard de Bas

December 10, 2018 by tylercollection

In 1974, Tyler and Rauschenberg visited a French paper mill. Experiments with paper pulp, an inspired display case and a photo album were produced…

Categories: Gemini GEL • Tags: papermaking, Richard de Bas paper mill, Robert Rauschenberg

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Reflections on – Abandoned book study

October 25, 2018 by tylercollection

Artist and curator Anja Loughhead examines ‘Abandoned book study’ by Robert Motherwell

Categories: Reflections on, Tyler Graphics Ltd

Paper Rain: Rauschenberg, the document & archive

October 9, 2018 by tylercollection

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

July 16, 2018 by tylercollection

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

July 16, 2018 by tylercollection

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

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