Drill-a-Phone, 1990-1997
Bakelite, Steel, Wood, and Cording, 7 1/2" x 15" x 8"
Richard Kelly Tipping was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1949 and received his B.A from Flinders University. His PhD from the University of Technology Sydney (2007) is titled Word Art Works: visual poetry and textual objects. He was guest editor for Artlink magazine’s special issue Word as Art in 2007 (see www.artlink.com.au). He has published five books of poetry and held over twenty solo exhibitions in Australia, Europe and the USA. His most recent sculptures (2007) are metaphysical poems inscribed into large basalt crystals. His art-poem signs are available in gallery shops internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London. He has three children, and currently lectures in media arts in the School of Design, Communication and IT at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He continues to explore the physical qualities of written language, making art with words and getting poetry off the page and into the streets.