Richard Tipping - Hear the art

Artist: Richard Tipping

Artwork Name: Hear the art

Medium: brick, Cupaniopsis anacardioides (Tuckeroo trees)

Date Created: 1996

About the artwork

Co-winner of the museum’s 1996 Lake Macquarie Biennial Acquisitive Sculpture Prize, this environmental sculpture is a visual poem. Growing from the circle of letters are messages and incantations – EARTH, HEART, HEARTH, HEAR THE EARTH and HEAR THE ART. A small grove of tuckeroos (Cupaniopsis anarcardiodes) will eventually form a single canopy at the heart of the work, keeping the viewer in touch with nature and its energies. This meditation focuses on sound and the serenity of the lakeside edge, with its slow time, endless changes and reflections.

Artist Biography

Richard Tipping is a widely published poet and visual artist, incorporating poetic texts into sculpture, drawing and public art.

Tipping is well known for original and altered sign designs since 1979, which have been exhibited internationally; and for public works incorporating his own poetic texts with three dimensional forms such as neon and LED lightworks, plate steel and aluminium, engraved granite, etc, in large-scale sculpture.

He has held solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, and internationally in cities including London, Munich, Washington and New York. He has completed public and private sculptural commissions throughout Australia and internationally in the USA, UK and Germany.

Examples of his art are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, among other key collections, as well as internationally in the print collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the British Museum, London.

Acknowledgement

Joint Winner, Lake Macquarie Sculpture Acquisition Prize, 1996. Supported by Energy Australia