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(Thorny Devil Press) The Sydney Morning. Vols. I-IV. By Richard Tipping. Wangi Wangi. Australia. Volumes 1-IV. Each – 11.75″ x 9.25″.

Vol. I – Words Works & Ideagraphics 1967-1988. Twelve color prints on Magnani Pescia. Screenprinted by Richard Tipping and Shaw Hendry. 1989.
Vol. II – Word Works 1967-1991. Twelve black and white prints on Magnani Pescia. One in an edition of 60 copies of which the first 50 are boxed in sets with frontispiece. Letterpress printed at the Graphic Investigation Workshop of the Canberra Institute of the Arts by Richard Tipping and Les Petersen in July, 1991.
Vol III – Word Works 1979 – 1992, including works from the on-going series Roadsigned & Subvertising. Twelve prints with color on Magnani Pescia each in an edition of between 72 and 88 copies. Numbers 1 to 50 of each print are boxed in sets with signed frontispiece and end-notes. Screenprinted by Carmen Delprat and Richard Tipping in Newcastle between September and December 1992.
Vol. IV – Word Works 1993-1994. Fourteen color prints on cotton paper, each in an edition of between 80 and 92 examples. Nos. 1 – 60 of each print are boxed in sets with frontispiece and endnotes. All designs/poems/typo/graphics etc. (and hand-tearing of paper!) by Richard Tipping.

All four volumes are in blue cloth folders with blue board slipcases with titles in gilt. All prints signed and numbered by Tipping. Some with titles. No. 25 in an edition of 60 copies, the first 50 of which are boxed in sets with frontispiece. Fine.

These portfolios, with their titles, announce Richard Kelly Tipping’s subject and language use with immediacy. Using signs – road signs, company signs, billboards, etc. Tipping manipulates the context and alters their meaning. More than concrete or visual poetry, the ’spatial adjustment’ used by Tipping forces one to re-examine the use of the words and their meanings. Nearly always, his signs ask us to do or imagine something totally different to the expected. Every one of his altered signs suggests a new context – an imaginative one in which the altered not-so-different original sign is remembered for its stupidity! Tipping shows how one can transform advertising and bureaucratic space with poetry on its own terms.

The Sydney Morning (a play on the name of the Sydney morning newspaper) is complete in four volumes.

Related items: Catalogue 37 - Summer 2009, Richard Tipping