For a temporary public artwork, it’s hard to beat using grass if you really mean temporary! In 2008 Richard was commissioned by Frankston City Council (near Melbourne) come up with an idea for their White Street series of art projects. His solution was big, cheap and very green.
Watermark, a sculpture at the Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane, Australia
MoMA
A boxed set of small open-edition signs by Richard Tipping published by Artpoem Press has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
This set titled Sign Here (edition of 7, 2005) has over thirty different multiples, with detailed information on each, held in a wooden box with an engraved lid. Sign Here was accepted into the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books in 2008 as a donation by the collector Mary Meehan Oldenburg.
Six of the edition of 7 Sign Here boxes are now in collections (in order of date of acquisition):
Southern Cross University, New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales
The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Sackner …
Collections:
Australia:
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane;
Regional art galleries including: Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW;
Lismore Art Gallery, NSW; Gold Coast Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland;
State libraries: the National Library of Australia, Canberra; the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney; the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne; the State Library of Queensland, Brisbane;
University library and art …
EXHIBITIONS
Only Emotion Endures – Australian Galleries – Sydney 2008 = catalogue available –
www.australiangalleries.com.au
Subvert I Sing – Multiple Box – Sydney 08 – (book link to Redfox Press
Multiple Choice – Lake Macquarie 07 – catalogue available
Greenaway Art Gallery – Adelaide 07 –
