An architect, torn between art and architecture, follows housing into Country and discovers both the cost and the necessity of grabbing the tiger’s tail.
Category Archives: History
From the diary
A rough for a political ‘flyer’ for rally in Adelaide 1980
From the archives.
A fitting post for today, after Victorians gave the politics of fear a walloping in our State election. Victoria once …
Architect’s indulgence
Architect’s indulgence or a meaningful political statement? The external appearance of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander …
Concept drawing for Nyinkkanyunu 1986
Started sorting the archive boxes. A task avoided for over 40 years. This drawing is part of the documents prepared …
Stone House Warrandyte
My mother engaged Fritz Janeba to design the family homes. The big stone house still stands, but the copper pump …
Jim Wigley at work
Part of photo series of Jim making puppet heads with Hymie Slade in the 1950s. The studio location is unknown. …
Me and Danila
I thought I was the only one “minded” by Danila Vassilieff. My mother worked at the Koornong school down the …
Jim Wigley Obituary
Another obituary written by Phillip Jones The Australian 29th July 1999. 080125 Link no longer works.