Famous Australian people and landmarks on Burke’s Backyard
Jim Pike recently visited a retired artist, Lyn Pascalls who uses amongst other things aluminium cans as his canvas. He started his artwork after he retired as a structural engineer about 30 years ago. Technique Lyn cuts open the aluminium can and draws the design on...
Burke’s Backyard visited the hacienda of Buko and Helga Vogel at Bald Rock Bush Retreat on the edge of the Bald Rock National Park near Tenterfield in northern NSW. Buko Vogel is a builder and has built Paul Hogan’s house at Byron Bay. He was born in...
‘Burke’s Backyard’ visited the home of fisherman and seafood fanatic Vittorio Salvagno, who has collected shells from around the world and from just about every seafood meal he has eaten. The shells are displayed not only in the house but cover the...
Evi Ferrier’s hobby has literally taken over her house with the external and internal walls covered with mosaics of broken tiles, plates, ceramics and mirrors. The mosaic creations include a tea tree outside made up of teapots and a tea fountain where a wall is...
Queensland couple Roz and Bernie have proved that you can create your dream with enough hard work, time and a bit of luck. Around 10 years ago this couple decided to build a 20m (70′) long steel hulled ship in their back yard in Redland Bay, Queensland. After 10...
The Botanical Ark is a private ethno-botanical garden on the edge of the Daintree rainforest in far northern Queensland near Mossman. It is owned and run by Alan and Susan Carle. Their goal is to collect new and rare species of tropical fruits and nuts from around the...
Ceramic artist Katrina Kenny and technician Eric Cossich have formulated a new type of ceramic material after two years of research and development. It can be glazed, moulded and used like ceramic but has a much smaller shrinkage rate (around 1%) than clay, allowing...
Elizabeth Scholes is an artist who has found an interesting use for abandoned chrome hubcaps. She makes them into clocks. Collecting them from roadsides, wreckers and anywhere else she can get them. First they get a good scrub with a rust remover, then the...
Monaro on Monaro is an award-winning garden located in Canberra. It has been transformed by owners John and Judy Thompson over a period of 38 years from a functional, neat and tidy garden into a horticultural delight. Their efforts have recently been recognised with...
In 1991 artist Elizabeth Fisher and her husband bought a house at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in the Sydney suburb of Gordon. At the time the garden was an overgrown mass of bamboo and privet. Although they couldn’t see it, they knew that the remains of...