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

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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

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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

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