Peter Tyndall: Dagger Definitions
Greenhouse 1987
Born Melbourne, Australia 1951
Lives and works in Hepburn Springs
Since the 1970s, Peter Tyndall’s paintings, drawings and prints engage with recursive relationships between art, language and meaning. He is known for his use of graphic lines, text and comic-style illustration. Tyndall’s art reflects and disrupts historical perspectives on art. His ongoing project (since 2008) is a blog entitled bLOGOS/HA HA, which offers commentary on unfolding contemporary history.
“Maintaining a rigorous studio practice spanning 50 years, Tyndall‘s expansive works contemplate the fundamental questions about the construction of meaning. Tyndall interrogates how art, language, presence and absence operate in relation to one another in comprehending the world around us.
Reflecting on his unwavering commitment to this way of seeing the world, Tyndall created a unique set of symbols to describe his philosophical framework where he structured his entire artistic practice. The exhibition demonstrates Tyndall’s process from making art, innovation, and life-long dedication to insatiable productivity.” (Buxton Contemporary, 2023)
Exhibitions include Peter Tyndall, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne (2022−2023); thoughts arise / HA HA, Conners Conners, Melbourne (2023); Light & Darkness: Late Modernism and the Power Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney (2022); Peter Tyndall Sinclair+Gallery, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine (2022), I Draw, Therefore I Think, South South, online (2021), Serial and Conceptual Photography, Spare Room 33, Canberra (2017); Geniale Dilletanten (Brilliant Dilletantes): Subcuulture in Germany in the 1980s + Australian ingenious amateurs, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (2015); Howard Arkley (and friends…), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2015); Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2014); Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century, Monash University Museum of Art (2013); Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); detail, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (2012); Let the Healing Begin, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2011); Unscripted: Language in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2005); The Song of the Earth, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2000); Peter Tyndall, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo (1997); Postcards: Peter Tyndall Contemporary Art Archive 5, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1994).
Public collections include the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Peter Tyndall
9th December 2022 – 16th April 2023
Buxton Contemporary
Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, Stieg Persson, John Nixon
Light & Darkness:Late modernism and the Power Collection
10th January – 27th November 2022
Chau Chak Wing Museum
Peter Tyndall
SINCLAIR+GALLERY
16th December 2021 – 24th July 2022
Castlemaine Art Museum
Peter Tyndall, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Chiharu Shiota
I draw, therefore I think
11th September – 23rd October 2021
SOUTH SOUTH
Peter Tyndall
detail
21st November – 15th December 2012
Anna Schwartz Gallery Carriageworks
Tom Nicholson, Jenny Watson, Mutlu Çerkez, Peter Tyndall, Marco Fusinato, Ian Whittlesea, Mike Parr, Emily Floyd, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Rose Nolan, Grant Stevens
WORD
4th July – 8th August 2009
Anna Schwartz Gallery Carriageworks
Peter Tyndall
projection-space [When SpaceCanvas is asked to repaint itself…]
11th May – 23rd June 2007
Anna Schwartz Gallery