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
“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
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 at Nurra Bukulla
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.
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
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
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
Charred upended tree stumps stand sentinel in the Spotted Gum forest at Nurra Bukulla.
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
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
[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
This film was made on location at the three top ends of Australia from June through August 1977. It attempts to explain & portray our environmental sculptures in the outback regions where the indigenous materials, methods and people play a … Read More
The Second Art-Bit Installation was a sandbag bunker under the stairs at the Art Gallery of NSW that Grounds installed for the1976 Biennale of Sydney. Half way down the stairs there is a landing that stands off the ground by … Read More
The Barn at Penders Designed by Marr’s father, Sir Roy Grounds. The “Barn” represents one of the most revealing buildings of Grounds’s career, and clearly displays the architectural philosophies that under-pinned his architecture – his belief in the logic of geometry … Read More