Richard Tipping - Morning

Artist: Richard Tipping

Artwork Name: Morning

Medium: basalt crystal

Date Created: 2007

About the artwork

Richard Tipping’s creative practice explores the combined communicative qualities of text, images and objects. Morning, part of the eight-piece series Imagine Silence, clearly reflects this preoccupation. Like the other sculptural works in the series, it features a four-line poem inscribed on a block of basalt crystal, giving a sense of materiality and ‘weight’ to the written and, by extension, the spoken word. It suggests notions of renewal and the interrelatedness of landscape and memory in shaping our understanding of the natural environment.

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

Donated through the Australian Government's. Cultural Gifts Program by the artist, 2011.