File 04: Peter Kingston collection of prints created for artists' book 'Wipe', 2015

PXA 2130

file

2015

Graphic Materials, Prints, Ephemera

1381727

46 prints - paper, ink
1 postcard
1 item of ephemera (greeting card)

Peter Kingston was born in Sydney 1943 and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 from the University of New South Wales, where he studied architecture and arts. He was a Pop artist in the 1970s and has exhibited since 1978 in Sydney and New York. He has been included in several group exhibitions including the Dobell Drawing Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1993 and 2000, the Wynne Prize between 1995 and 2003, and the Sulman Prize between 1998 and 2001. He tutored in architecture at the University of Sydney and was artist in residence at Haefliger Cottage at Hill End, NSW in 1995. His work is held by major Australian galleries, libraries and museums, and internationally in Belgium, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Sources:

Australian Galleries
http://www.australiangalleries.com.au (accessed 1.10.2015)
Design and Art Australia Online
https://www.daao.org.au (accessed 1.10.2015)

"Wipe" has been published since 1998 as a compilation of various artists’ works on toilet paper. Contributors have included both Australian and international artists such as Martin Sharp, Luke Sciberras, Helen Amyes, Thierry Tillier and Giovanni Strader. The artists source their own toilet paper. Contributing artists send in prints on toilet paper to the publisher, Field Study International (David Dellafiora), where they are bound into a small zine-like book. Peter Kingston has contributed to several issues. David Dellafiora describes "Wipe" as ‘The use of a nonarchival, indeed anti-archival medium, is intentional, with the ephemerality and fragility of the medium in sharp contrast with the artistic concern for archival materials. Conceived as a playful lightweight publication to circumvent postage costs, "Wipe" nods to Duchamp’s urinal and challenges contributors to make work on a medium that is almost anti-art.’

Source:
Field Study International
http://daviddellafiora.blogspot.com.au (accessed 1.10.2015)

Library file.

1. Wipe. No. 88, Limited edition no. 21 of 40. Published by Field Study, Geelong. [June 2015]. Includes 20 sheets of toilet paper, some with signatures, printed with artwork by artists Duke Fitzwilliam, Lucy Godycki, Peter Kingston (Australia); Miche-Art-Universalis (Belgium); Diane Bertrand, R.F. Cote (Canada); Siggi Liersch, Peter Muller, Jurgen O. Olbrich (Germany); Katerina Nikoltsou (Greece); Vittore Baroni, Giovanni Strada (Italy); Magda Lagerwerf (Netherlands); Alfonso Aguado Ortuno, Miguel Jimenez (Spain); Henry Denander (Sweden); Gina Ulgen (UK); John M. Bennett, Laura Dunn, Otto David Sherman (USA).
Includes a list of artists with their addresses.

2. Wipe. No. 90 Limited edition no. 39 of 40. Published by Field Study, Geelong. [July 2015]. Includes 20 sheets of toilet paper, some with signatures, printed with artwork by artists Vizma Bruns, Peter Kingston, Luke Sciberras, Martin Sharp, Garry Shead, State Library of New South Wales (Australia); Miche-Art-Universalis, Thierry Tillier (Belgium); Diane Bertrand, R.F. Cote (Canada); Siggi Liersch, Peter Muller, Jurgen O. Olbrich (Germany); Katerina Nikoltsou (Greece); Giovanni Strada (Italy); Piet Franzen, Magda Lagerwerf (Netherlands); Miguel Jimenez (Spain); John M. Bennett, Laura Dunn (USA).
Includes a list of artists with their addresses.
Sheet no. 6 is toilet paper from the State Library of New South Wales printed with "Eternity", unsigned.

3. Signed PK (Peter Kingston) print of the Sydney Opera House with ferry and sailing boat on toilet paper from the building.

4. Postcard. Peter Kingston, 'Echo Point 1988', inscribed with note to Library regarding acquisition.

5. Greeting card. Peter Kingston, 'King Tide, Full Noon' and poem 'Ferries' by Eva Lawton.

6. 5 prints on toilet paper by various contributing artists to Wipe.
[Two dogs] with signature of Martin Sharp; [Masked man in suite by Garry Shead]; Refurbish hertiage Lavender Bay public toilets by Duke Fitzwilliam; What's more, he expects us to keep on typing by Duke Fitzwilliam; Property of City of Glasgow by Duke Fitzwilliam.

Copyright status:: In copyright
Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
Research & study copies allowed:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy David Dellafiora