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
The art world mourns the loss of American abstractionist Ellsworth Kelly, who passed away on 27 December 2015 at the age of 92.
Categories: Artists • Tags: abstraction, Colored paper images, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Gemini GEL, HMP, John Koller, Kenneth Tyler, Paper pools, paper pulp, Tyler Graphics Ltd
The 1976 documentary film Reaching out: Ken Tyler, master printer takes viewers into renowned print workshop Gemini GEL, Los Angeles, providing us with behind-the-scenes footage of master printer Ken Tyler at work with Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney.
Categories: Gemini GEL • Tags: David Hockney, Documentary, Gemini GEL, Kenneth Tyler, Lee Tirce, Michael Crichton, Roy Lichtenstein, Sid Avery
As curators we have a tendency to focus on the artwork, the finished product; however this is only ever part of the equation. The technical nature of printmaking often necessitates collaboration and team work in order to successfully execute a print. Indeed, the prodigious output of the Tyler workshops was reliant on the efforts of a dedicated and hard-working team of talented printers and staff, a fact which we have endeavoured to reflect on the Team page of our website. The […]
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Claes Oldenburg, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, John Hutcheson, Kenneth Noland, Kenneth Tyler, lithography, National Gallery of Australia, papermaking, Per Inge Bjørlo, printmaking, prints, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Tyler Collection, Tyler Graphics Ltd
We can hardly believe that 2014 has arrived! Team Tyler had a wonderfully busy, productive year in 2013. Roy Lichtenstein: Pop remix travelled to the red centre of Australia, opening at Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs in April. In an emphatic end to its successful national tour, the exhibition returned to the National Gallery of Australia in July, where it has been on display since. The opening night – a buzzing, Pop-inspired party with vodka POPtails, WHAAM burgers, and Ray […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Anthony Caro, Araluen Arts Centre, David Hockney, Happy New Year, Impact International Printmaking Conference, Kenneth Tyler, Megalo, National Gallery of Australia, prints, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Amato
2012 has been a big year for the National Gallery’s Tyler Collection. We have learned the exciting news that Kenneth Tyler will be made an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia at an investiture ceremony in Washington DC on January 23, 2013. Ken has been nominated for this well-deserved honour for his ‘service to the Arts, particularly through the Kenneth Tyler Collection at the National Gallery of Australia and through philanthropy.’ In April the Roy Lichtenstein: Pop remix show […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Bruce Nauman, David Hockney, Ken Price, Kenneth Tyler, Maurice Sendak, Merry Christmas!, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Paul Jenkins, prints, Roy Lichtenstein, Seaon's greetings, Tony Albert, Tyler Collection, unDisclosed
Over the past few months we have been compiling new information for the Gallery’s Kenneth Tyler printmaking collection website, and working to make the site easier to use. The results are now online for you to explore here: http://nga.gov.au/InternationalPrints/Tyler/Default.cfm?MnuID=12 An important addition to the site is the new Tyler Graphics Ltd (TGL) team page, dedicated to the immensely talented group of printers and workshop staff that made the astonishing print projects produced at TGL possible. This page reveals the truly […]
Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: David Hockney, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, Robert Motherwell, Tyler Graphics Ltd
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
The Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Collection Archive (CCGA) is a sister institution to the National Gallery of Australia’s Kenneth Tyler Printmaking Collection, located in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. Following the tragedy of the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear threat, we are very pleased to report that all staff members are safe. The CCGA building sustained some damage and is currently closed; our thoughts and best wishes are with the CCGA staff and their families as they […]
Categories: Artists, Exhibitions, Galleries, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: CCGA, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Japan, Josef Albers, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein
The Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Collection Archive (CCGA) is a sister institution to the National Gallery of Australia’s Kenneth Tyler Printmaking Collection, located in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. Following the tragedy of the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear threat, we are very pleased to report that all staff members are safe. The CCGA building sustained some damage and is currently closed; our thoughts and best wishes are with the CCGA staff and their families as they […]
Categories: Artists, Exhibitions, Galleries, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: CCGA, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Japan, Josef Albers, Ken Tyler, Kenneth Tyler, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Tyler Graphics
