1980 – Gentlemans Halt
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Gentleman’s Halt, Film, 1980 “Best film I ever made. It’s the history of mankind in ten minutes.”  

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

Outside of an Art Bit card
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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