Introduction

The Anschluss

The election of the Germans

Escape to Australia

Emigration to Australia

The first choise

Enlistment and the art school

Formative years?

Things we dabbled in

An aspiring painter

Return to Vienna

No more to teach me

Slow ship to Europe

Robbing a bank

The roulette system

Polio in Vienna

What you made was arbitrary

Secret was to go ahead

The integrity of the picture plane

Concentrate on metal

First, fibreglass

Found stainless steel

Tetrahedron buries in Canberra

Stainless steel holds surface indefinitely

An automotive finish

Move to Adelaide

Falling out

Head of sculpture

No meetings, no homework

Administration

working as head of sculpture

Significant commisions

Frank Watters Gallery exhibition

Nothing happened

The work is excellent and would function

Gallery A

Later public works

Every piece ended up as a public piece

Successful Adelaide public sculptures

Adelaide University

The Festival Centre

Shifting sculptures

Fabricating

Brister and Company

Specialist fabricators

It will not do

The balls

In Rundle Mall

Site specific commission

We'll do it anyway

The National Gallery sculpture

Mollison reserved the North

Mollison commissions bigger work

The Cones

Reflections

Make people want to look at it

The Dobell Memorial

The Pyramid Tower

A great outcry

Finding a fabricator

Not true to specifications

Simple and contemporary in flavour

Can't beat them, join them

Relocating the piece

Very successful relocation

Reflections as evening comes into play

Delighted with the result

Working in a campus context

I like students

Create an atmosphere they want to emulate

Work all the time

Contribution to Australian sculpture

More complicated than you can sum up

Issues of working in public spaces

Other ways of thinking

Work very worthwhile

Use of maquettes

Sell the macquette but not the copyright

Exhibition of the macquettes

Favourite piece

Tetrapus

Exploring structural things

Started in cardboard

Haven't touched anything else

The studio assistant

The practicalities of making

Understanding what you're saying

Made out of copper

Patina in the maquetes

Learn by picking things up

Two threads coming together

Following a whim

Tetrapus and flexibility

Play around and get it right

The block and tackle

Pull and pull until it distorts

Tetrapus, a joke

The freedom of shaping things

Tetrapus, engaging but don't turn your back

Thank you

Credits