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Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Tyler: a 25 year collaboration

February 21, 2012 by tylercollection

Kenneth Tyler and Helen Frankenthaler worked together on many print projects in a collaborative relationship that spanned 25 years. Below Ken remembers working with Helen and discusses her approach to printmaking. Helen Frankenthaler’s death on December 27, 2011 is a great loss to the world and, within that, the world of art. She will be remembered for her unshakeable confidence, indefatigable in her creation of abstract images. Helen was both meticulous and experimental in her painting and printmaking, often challenging […]

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes • Tags: Essence Mulberry, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, Robert Motherwell, Tyler Graphics Ltd, woodblock

Behind the scenes: Tyler collection rehang

November 25, 2011 by tylercollection

Because of their sensitivity to light, works on paper displays are changed more frequently than paintings or sculptures. This is great for regular visitors to the National Gallery, as it means added opportunity to see the breadth of the Tyler collection. For an idea of what is involved in changing a gallery display, this month we’re taking a behind-the-scenes tour of an International Prints rehang. Rehanging a gallery is more complex than you might imagine and involves the coordination of […]

Categories: Behind-the-scenes, Exhibitions, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: exhibitions, Jasper Johns, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, Pop art, Richard Serra, Tyler Graphics Ltd

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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