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Bending the rules: Ellsworth Kelly’s Colored Paper Images

November 22, 2022 by tylercollection

A look at Ellsworth Kelly’s Colored Paper Images series, 1976

Categories: Behind-the-scenes • Tags: Ellsworth Kelly

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Masami Teraoka and ukiyo-e printmaking

November 12, 2021 by tylercollection

An investigation into one of the first prints made at Gemini Limited and the explosive processes behind it

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: bijin-ga, Catfish envy, etching, intaglio, Kenneth Tyler, Kunisada eclipsed, Longing samurai, Masami Teraoka, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, Toyohara Kunichika, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics Ltd, ukiyo, ukiyo-e, View from here to eternity, woodblock, woodcut, Yasuyuki Shibata

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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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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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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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Workshop staff inking and wiping the plate for Frank Stella's 'Swan engraving square IV', Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, September, 1982

Backwards intaglio: making Frank Stella’s ‘Swan Engravings’

August 18, 2017 by tylercollection

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

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Kenneth Tyler and Bob Cross carve a woodblock in preparation for magnesium plate to be inserted for Frank Stella's 'Pergusa three', from the 'Circuits' series, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, 1981. Photo: Lindsay Green. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Technique Tuesday: Frank Stella’s ‘Circuits’ series

January 31, 2017 by tylercollection

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

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Technique Tuesday: Frank Stella’s Moby Dick domes

December 19, 2016 by tylercollection

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

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It’s all hands on deck to install 'The fountain.'

Installing ‘Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection’

November 18, 2016 by tylercollection

It’s been a big week here at the NGA as we’ve busily been installing Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection.

Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Exhibitions, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Behind-the-scenes, exhibitions, Frank Stella, Installation, Kenneth Tyler, mural, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, prints, Stella, The fountain, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd

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Nancy Graves colouring her intaglio print edition 'Muin' with oil stick crayon

Technique Tuesday: Nancy Graves’ Synecdoche

October 25, 2016 by tylercollection

This #TechniqueTuesday we’re sharing behind the scenes insight from Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection about Nancy Graves’s first foray into intaglio printing at Tyler Graphics in 1977, where she produced the Synecdoche series

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Technique Tuesday, Tyler Graphics Ltd, Uncategorized

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Between the sheets of ‘Gray instrumentation II’

September 23, 2016 by tylercollection

A selection of screenprints from Josef Albers’ Gray Instrumentation II portfolio of 1975 is on display now in the International galleries at the National Gallery of Australia. Here we look back at Albers’s relentless investigation of shades grey and share the poetry that interleaved the portfolio

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Albers, Alice Desmond, Anni Albers, Art, art history, artists, Bauhaus, canberra, color, colour, Gray Instrumentation, homage to the square, Josef Albers, National Gallery of Australia, poems, poetry, portfolios, printmaking, prints, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics, Tyler Graphics Ltd

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