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Sneak peek…

August 29, 2011 by tylercollection

As promised, a short clip from our newly digitised film and sound collection is ready and waiting for you to watch through Vimeo. This footage shows Frank Stella discussing the making of his epic print The fountain, 1992. More material will be made available as we identify and catalogue our large holdings: you can expect to see artists in action as well as Ken Tyler and his staff inking plates, operating the presses, making paper and much, much more. Stay tuned! […]

Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd, Uncategorized • Tags: DAMSmart!, Frank Stella, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia

COMING SOON: Tyler film & sound collection

August 25, 2011 by tylercollection

To those of us unfamiliar with printmaking, its technical processes can seem mysterious. Especially in the workshops of Kenneth Tyler, where 500-tonne printing presses were housed alongside antique Bavarian lithography stones; where staff in white overalls and rubber boots sprayed paper pulp from moving platforms above works of art; and where traditional Japanese woodblock and papermaking methods were employed in the same rooms as photo-mechanical techniques, the engineering of kinetic sculptures, and the making of vast, colourful mixed-media prints in […]

Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: DAMSmart!, David Hockney, Frank Stella, Kenneth Tyler, Roy Lichtenstein

Up the skirt of Oldenburg’s ‘Ice bag – scale B’

November 3, 2010 by tylercollection

Claes Oldenburg is known for his experimentation with prints and multiples in order to produce witty, large scale transformations of everyday objects. Like the other, larger Ice bags that Oldenburg created, Ice bag – scale B (1971) was given life as a kinetic sculpture, mechanically powered from within so that it rises and tilts continually, in a gentle circular motion – almost as if it is breathing. Caring for kinetic sculptures presents unique challenges, especially when they are frequently on display (Ice bag – scale B can be seen in action regularly in the NGA’s Pop […]

Categories: 3D Multiples, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL • Tags: air bag, Claes Oldenburg, conservation, Gemini GEL, kinetic sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, oldenburg, Pop art, preservation, soft sculpture

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

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Sneak peek…

COMING SOON: Tyler film & sound collection

Up the skirt of Oldenburg’s ‘Ice bag – scale B’