Home » » Billy Gruner & Sarah Keighery: “This photo that sits on my desktop is of an original steel cube house that Sarah Keighery and I have managed to possess in the Blue Mountains, near Sydney. The housed was designed in 1961 by Croation architect Nino Sydney, for a mysterious Russian client and electronics collector named Dimitrieff – the sole owner to date. Importantly, this simple type of project building was in part key to the development of what is known in Australian architecture as, ‘Sydney (International) Style’. Like other houses designed by Seidler or Petit and Sevitt groups at that time, it is significant because it marries regional detail with international influence and, ‘aspirational’ urban designing – a process long considered in regional terms, and that has had a profound impact on my current thinking about art. We are currently returning it back to its original austere modernist tone of black and white paint. We intend to use it as a gallery named L9 (the title of the house design), and our studio. Note there is a kangaroo who has been living in the grounds that face onto a severe gully and national park, he appears reasonably friendly. All of this I have been pondering regularly of late, especially when traveling and making the Collective works and the related Punk Paintings.”

Billy Gruner & Sarah Keighery: “This photo that sits on my desktop is of an original steel cube house that Sarah Keighery and I have managed to possess in the Blue Mountains, near Sydney. The housed was designed in 1961 by Croation architect Nino Sydney, for a mysterious Russian client and electronics collector named Dimitrieff – the sole owner to date. Importantly, this simple type of project building was in part key to the development of what is known in Australian architecture as, ‘Sydney (International) Style’. Like other houses designed by Seidler or Petit and Sevitt groups at that time, it is significant because it marries regional detail with international influence and, ‘aspirational’ urban designing – a process long considered in regional terms, and that has had a profound impact on my current thinking about art. We are currently returning it back to its original austere modernist tone of black and white paint. We intend to use it as a gallery named L9 (the title of the house design), and our studio. Note there is a kangaroo who has been living in the grounds that face onto a severe gully and national park, he appears reasonably friendly. All of this I have been pondering regularly of late, especially when traveling and making the Collective works and the related Punk Paintings.”

posted July 15, 2009

Billy Gruner & Sarah Keighery: "This photo that sits on my desktop is of an original steel cube house that Sarah Keighery and I have managed to possess in the Blue Mountains, near Sydney. The housed was designed in 1961 by Croation architect Nino Sydney, for a mysterious Russian client and electronics collector named Dimitrieff - the sole owner to date. Importantly, this simple type of project building was in part key to the development of what is known in Australian architecture as, 'Sydney (International) Style'. Like other houses designed by Seidler or Petit and Sevitt groups at that time, it is significant because it marries regional detail with international influence and, 'aspirational' urban designing - a process long considered in regional terms, and that has had a profound impact on my current thinking about art. We are currently returning it back to its original austere modernist tone of black and white paint. We intend to use it as a gallery named L9 (the title of the house design), and our studio. Note there is a kangaroo who has been living in the grounds that face onto a severe gully and national park, he appears reasonably friendly. All of this I have been pondering regularly of late, especially when traveling and making the Collective works and the related Punk Paintings."