Christo Wrapping Little Bay – 1969
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Christo “Wrapping the Coast, he wanted man power and couldn’t get any. None of the artists      would help him. John Kaldor came to me to ask me for assistance..I took all my students out there. My students elected to … Read More

1967 – 68 Ghana
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Ghana 1967- 68 “I did a similar thing with Ghana students with timber off-cuts from a mill. Students were asked to make a sculpture or model of the larger one we made outside. It was an opportunity for them to … Read More

1966 – Berkley Kinetic – in Mildura 1973
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Kinetic Piece, Berkley University, 1966 “This was a big orange moving sculpture on a pivot in the grounds outside Berkley University. I did a derivative of the sculpture for the Triennale at Mildura.” “Kinetic Piece”, Mildura Biennial, 1973 “Big sails … Read More

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

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.

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