New Realities: Donald Sultan at Tyler Graphics

This conversation brings together renowned American artist Donald Sultan and Dr Warwick Heywood, Curator of International Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Australia for a conversation investigating Sultan’s evolution as a printmaker, highlighting his time at Tyler Graphics and the influence of that pioneering studio environment on his techniques and artistic direction. It will also reflect on Tyler’s broader impact and trace how the National Gallery of Australia came to house the extensive archive and proofs from his studios - from his early collaborations at Gemini GEL in Los Angeles through to the later operations of Tyler Graphics. The program is offered in conjunction with the publication of Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1986–2001, which documents the final projects of master printer Kenneth E. Tyler, a seminal figure in the 20th-century American print renaissance. Tyler’s ambition and relentless pursuit of innovation drove him to push artists beyond familiar boundaries, developing new technologies and purpose-built workshop facilities around the world.