Solo exhibitions: # = catalogue published
2022 Code Red (working title) in preparation for Australian Galleries, Sydney, in October 2022
2021 Big Works, WordXimage, Maitland NSW
2018 Naked Paper, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2018 Art Word, survey, Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Victoria #
2017 Instant History, Australian Galleries, Sydney #
2013 Urban Animals, Slot Gallery, Sydney
2012 No King, Arthere Gallery, Sydney
2012 Studio, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2012 Off the Page, Customs House, Sydney #
2009 Hearth, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2008 Only Emotion Endures, Australian Galleries, Sydney #
2008 Subvert I Sing, Multiple Box Sydney # (Redfoxpress)
2007 Multiple Choice, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW #
2007 Fresh Concrete, John Miller Gallery, Newcastle
2007 Imagine Silence, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2004 Errorism, Multiple Box Sydney
2004 Art Signs and Word Sculptures, Banning + Low, Washington DC
2004 Exit Strategy, The Studio, Sydney Opera House
2003 Street Talk, Banning Gallery, New York
2002 Public Works, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide #
2001 One Two Many, Multiple Box Sydney
1998 Versions: Perversions, Subversions and Verse, Ubu Gallery, New York # (on-line catalogue)
1997 Hear the Art, The Eagle Gallery, London #
1996 Multiple Pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney #
1994 Art Allergy (with Alex Selenitsch), Rhumbarellas Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Between the Lines, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Fast Art, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1983 Ideagraphics, Rosyln Oxley Gallery, Sydney
1981 Inside Outside, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1980 Word Works 2, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne #
1980 Word Works, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1978 The Everlasting Stone, Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery #
1973 Soft Riots (with Aleks Danko), Watters Gallery, Sydney
1970 Uck (with Aleks Danko), Llewellyn Gallery, Adelaide
Selected Group exhibitions:
2019 The Legacy of Marcel Duchamp, Art Gallery of NSW
2015 Work Art Work (Werk Kunst Werk), Kassel, Germany, curated by Jurgen Olbrich #
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi #
2015, 2014 Harbour Sculpture, Sydney
2013, 2012 Sculpture by the Sea, Cotteslow, Western Australia
2012 Volume 1: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2011 The Silent Scream: political and social comment in books by artists, Monash University Rare Books Library #
2011 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
2009 Avoiding Myth and Message: Australian artists in the literary world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney #
2008 Correspondences: Mail Art in the C21st, Center for Books Arts, New York
2007 Multiplicity: prints and multiples, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney #
2006, 2005, 2003 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
2006 Farmyard Challenge, Field Gallery, Newcastle
2006 Who cares? Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2004 HunterArt1: art tourist, at five galleries in the Hunter Valley, co-ordinated by Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
2003 The Contemporary Art Fair, Cologne, represented by Galerie Seippel
2009 Art Australia, Germany - at the Kunstraum, Sylt; Galerie Seippel, Cologne; and touring
2003 The National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2002 Sculpture in the City, Martin Place, Sydney
2002 Text Art Object (with Ruark Lewis & Jennifer Joseph), Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Cologne
2002 Text Art Multiples, Multiple Box Sydney
2001 Feedback: Total Text Meeting, Museumshop of the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2000 Signed 2000, Maisenbacher Art Gallery, Trier, Germany
1999 Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1999, 1998 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi - Sydney
1998 Verve: Poetic Visuals and Visual Poetry, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney #
1996-97 The Subverted Object, Ubu Gallery, New York
1996-98 Artist Books, Artists' Secrets, Goethe Institute, Sydney and touring #
1996-97 Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries and touring
1995 Bi-annual Exhibition, Pacific Center for Book Arts, San Francisco
1995-96 Fragile Object, Australian Embassy, Washington D.C. and touring
1994 and 1995 The Fremantle Print Award
1993-94 Fluxus and Beyond, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane #
1993-94 Lightworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney #
1993 Luminaries, illuminated art, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1993 The Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1992-93 The 9th Biennale of Sydney, The Boundary Rider #
1992 The Trial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1991 Art Freeway, Newcastle artists at Jan Taylor Gallery, Sydney
1991 Cross the Creek, The University of Newcastle
1990 Shifting Ground, Newcastle artists at the Art Gallery of NSW
1990 Lake Macquarie Gallery Art Prize Exhibition, NSW
1990 Alice 125, Gryphon Gallery, University of Melbourne
1989 Visual Poetics: Concrete Poetry and its Contexts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1989 Words on Walls, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
1987 The Age of Collage, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney #
1987 The Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1986 International Concrete Poetry Archive, Oxford, at Wolfson College
1986 Ex-Patriates or Exiles, Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery
1985 The International Contemporary Art Fair, London
1984 Artists in the Field, Darwin Museum and Art Gallery #
1983 Ideas on Ice, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1983 Anzart-in-Hobart, Tasmania
1982 The Biennale of Sydney, and the Festival of Sydney
1982 Recent Sculpture in South Australia, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide
1982 Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights, Sydney
1982 The Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932-82, Art Gallery of NSW
1981 The First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1981 See Hear: 7 Visual Poets, Niagra Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1980 The Security Show, Ewing Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
1978 ACT 1 Performance Art Festival, Canberra
1975 Post Object Art in Australia and New Zealand, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
A view of Richard Tipping's exhibition Big Works at WordXimage, Maitland NSW, in 2021 including Jump Start (Ooroo), Come in We're Closed (Sorry We're Open), The Relative both full-scale and in maquette versions.
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A window view of the exhibition Big Works at WordXimage, Maitland NSW, in 2021 including a free-standing perspex Ooroo (2016, edition of 3), and Division of the Sexes (glass, 1997)