Richard Tipping

Richard Kelly Tipping (born 1949) is an Australian poet and artist best known for his visual poetry, word art, and large-scale public artworks.

[1] After an MA, in 2007 Tipping completed his doctorate at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) with an exegesis titled Word Art Works: visual poetry and textual objects.

He then travelled in 1974 to the United States and lived in San Francisco, meeting with poets including Michael McClure and Robert Duncan, and visiting Mexico and Guatemala.

Between 1984 and 1986 he lived in Europe and England with his family, while making documentaries about expatriate writers such as Randolph Stow in Sussex, Peter Porter in London, Jack Lindsay in Cambridge, and David Malouf in Tuscany.

[citation needed] Tipping's career has a timespan of over fifty years, working in both spoken and graphic poetry and in visual art in many media and scales.

Tipping is known for his visual poetry and word art, including artsigns, textual sculpture, subvertising graphics, and large-scale public artworks both permanent and temporary.

[21] A PhD thesis by Sabrina Caldwell completed at the Australian National University in 2008, titled The Politics of Imagination: Richard Kelly Tipping and the Art and Technology of Words, Images and Objects, is available to download as a document.

As editor In the 1980s Tipping made documentary films on writers including David Malouf, Randolph Stow, Peter Porter, Roland Robinson and Les Murray.