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Papers of Richard Tipping
MSS 212

Collection Title

Papers of Richard Tipping

Collection Identifier

MSS 212

Inclusive date(s)

1959 to 1997

Extent and Medium

26 boxes + 34 AV boxes + 1 plan cabinet

Category

Literature

Subject: Person(s)

Collection Description

Literary drafts, original and copied correspondence, journals, notebooks, articles, research files, film projects, interviews, postcards, photographs, audio visual material and miscellaneous papers relating to the early part of Richard Tipping's poetry and artistic career.

Administrative / Biographical history

Richard Kelly Tipping was born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1949 and studied film, philosophy and literature at Flinders University, before becoming lecturer in media and communication at the University of Newcastle (Newcastle, NSW). Tipping is a significant and energetic poet, artist, sculptor and film maker whose creative work explores the intersection between image and language. Tipping's poetry has been published in several major anthologies, and his artwork is represented in the collections of many of the important Australian national, state and regional galleries. For more information consult the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tipping

References:

richard tipping http://www.richardtipping.com/ retrieved 3 October 2018

Australian Poetry Library: Richard Tipping https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/tipping-richard retrieved 3 October 2018

Art Guide Australia: Art Word: Richard Tipping https://artguide.com.au/richard-tipping-art-word retrieved 3 October 2018

Acquisition Details

The collection was acquired from Richard Tipping, by purchase and donation under the Cultural Gifts Program, in seven consignments in the period 1987-1997.

Scope and Content

The collection extensively documents the active formative years of Richard Tipping's life and career as poet, artist and film maker, comprising archival material acquired in multiple consignments between 1987 and 1997. The journals and notebooks, correspondence, literary drafts and research notes reflect the full reach of Tipping's creative endeavours, including the many publishing, artistic and film projects with which he was involved from the late 1960s through to the late 1990s. A sequence of handwritten journals capture the spirit of Tipping's experiences during the 1980s, containing draft poems, notes, drawings and accounts of people and places encountered. Some significant names represented in the collection associated with Australian literature and the arts include Les Murray, A.D. Hope, David Malouf, Shirley Hazzard, Christina Stead, Jack Lindsay, Sumner Locke Elliot, Roland Robinson and Harold Stewart.

Access Restrictions

Other

Access: The collection is open access with the exception of financial records housed in Boxes 23-25. The permission of the donor is required to access these items.

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

Copying: Copying of material authored by Tipping for private study and research is approved.

Existence and Location of Orginals

Special Collections, UNSW Canberra

Related and Separated Materials

Related Material

 

Additional material relating to Richard Tipping is located in the papers of Robert Adamson (MSS 149), Vincent Buckley (MSS 229), Dorothy Green (MSS 020), Rudi Krausmann (MSS 094), Jan Owen (MSS 092) and Graham Rowlands (MSS 017).

Further papers of Richard Tipping are held in the collections of the National Library of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Archives.


Separated Material

 

This collection originally included a number of publications, listed below. These works have been catalogued separately, and added to the Library collection.

Swarm by Philip Hammial

Opinion, March 1978

Australian Book Review, No. 94, September 1987

The Book Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 1987 - January 1988

Words, 4th issue, September 1985

Fiction Magazine, Collection 5, No. 7, September 1986 and Vol. 6, No. 8, October 1986

Literary Review, December 1985

Spectator, 27 September 1986

Experimental Art Foundation Newsletter; Artlink, Collection 4, No. 4, October-November 1984

Fringe Bugle, No. 25, August 1984

Bicentenary 88, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1981, Vol. 2 No. 2, July 1982, Vol. 3, No. 2, August 1983, Vol. 5, No. 1, February 1985

Wapping Post (?), Vol. 2, No. 2

Sanity, No. 9, September 1985

Words on Walls

Disclaimer

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

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