1965 – Environmental sculptue students at Penders
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Pender’s Student Structures 1965 ”I used to bring my students here and we would make structures. We wouldn’t bring anything in except string or canvas. Everything was found on site. We would define space, a cavity. I would bring the … Read More

Mudflat Sculpture Berkley, 1965
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“There was a famous set up in San Francisco Bay. Driftwood floats up on the mudflats of San Francisco Bay. People get out and make things, communal art next to the freeway. I or me and a friend or me … Read More

1964 – Berkley Home and Studio
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Korean War, 1951-1955 “I was a Korvet. Four years down the tube” El Camino College “After the Korean War I studied design and art before sculpture or architecture. It changed my life. I had no interest in these things until … Read More

Stone Sculpture 2
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Stone sculpture at Nurra Bukulla

Roy Grounds sculpture
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Roy Grounds sculpture. Originally located at Penders, this is the only sculpture made by Sir Roy Grounds. After the handback of Penders to NPWS, Marr moved the sculpture to his property Nurra Bukulla.

Black Jack
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There are many kinds of sculptural objects in the grounds of Narra Bukulla, at Penders, on the south coast of New South Wales. So for toolophile Marr, the stump left by a house-threatening spotted gum posed a sculptural problem. This 60s-era … Read More

Boathouse
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The boathouse was given to Marr as a wedding present and was originally installed at Penders. Too dangerous to use in the surrounding Bithry Inlet it remained on land until the handback of the Penders site to NPWS. Since then … Read More

The Barn – Drawing
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Drawing by Marr of the Penders site with Barn. In November 1985, in the the pages of Architecture Australia, Jennifer Taylor admitted Roy and Betty Grounds’s Barn at Penders into the pantheon of Australia’s finest buildings. Today this unusual little … Read More

Nurra Bukulla Black-Stump Sculpture
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Charred upended tree stumps stand sentinel in the Spotted Gum forest at Nurra Bukulla.

Narra Bukulla
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IN THE ARCHITECTS WORDS This project is two linked houses set in the bush as a 2 houses and studio for Marr. He wanted a house for himself, a house for his extended family and friends and a studio for … Read More

Goanna Feeding Tray
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This delightful goanna feeding tray is both sculptural and functional. Located at Penders goanna feeding was a daily ritual. In the background you can see a sculpture created by Roy Grounds, and the goanna in the foreground is atop of … Read More

Marr Grounds
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Marr & Marina
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Marr & Family
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Marr and Family picnicking at the dam on Penders.    

Austausch – Video
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The video is a record of an ‘action’ performed by the actor Jacqueline Schoone. She appears at the opening of the video dragging a sled with a tank on it that turns out to be the fuel for a small … Read More

Cairn Two
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[from MCA curator’s notes] Wool and bones from Dingo Fence shown in Sculpture Triennial and then in Perspecta, with video of the work in landscape environment (real time vs video time. Sometimes done with a performance in Cairn 3 / … Read More

Oxide Street Junction
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[from MCA curator’s notes] The original film was made by [Jim Dale] of Sydney University TV Service. It was then edited by Grounds into a shorter less pedantic version called Dingo Fence. Clips from it were included into Austausch / … Read More

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