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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

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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

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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

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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

Malcolm Morley (1931-2018)

June 7, 2018 by tylercollection

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

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David Hockney’s cancellation proofs

March 6, 2018 by tylercollection

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

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Remembering Jennie Tomao

January 24, 2018 by tylercollection

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

December 15, 2017 by tylercollection

“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

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