1993 + 1996 reflective metal sign 150 x 100mm Richard Kelly Tipping was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in November 1949. He began publishing poems in 1967, including concrete poetry, and in 1968 founded the small magazine, Mok. He is well known as a poet in Australia through three books to date and is represented in over forty anthologies. He is also known as a photographer through his humorous book Signs of Australia, published by Penguin in 1982, and as a film maker through a series of documentary portraits of Australian poets and novelists called Writers Talking. He is currently making a video series about artists' books. Richard Tipping's first exhibitions of word sculpture, textual art and visual poetry were in Adelaide in 1970 and 1978, Sydney in 1973, 1980 and 1983, and Melbourne in 1980 and 1984. He lived in Europe from 1984 to 1986. In the 1990s he has participated in the core programs of the Sydney Biennale and the Australian Sculpture Triennal in Melbourne. His most recent solo exhibitions have been Multiple Pleasures at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1996; Hear the Art at the Eagle Gallery, London, in 1997 and Versions, at Ubu Gallery, New York, in 1998/9. He is represented in most major public collections in Australia, including all of the State Galleries and the National Gallery in Canberra. In the USA he has been collected in depth by the Sackner Archive of Visual Concrete Poetry in Miami, and is represented in important artist book collections such as the Getty Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles; SUNY Buffalo; Yale University, and the library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.