Derham Groves

  • The Australian Brick Letterbox

    The suite of six letterboxes in front of Holmesglen Institute of TAFE Lachlan Michael Muhummad Abid En Yee Teh Audrey Zerafa David Young Nur Zainal Abidin Rubina Barooah   NOT JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL An innovative program at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning has seen students design unique letterboxes which were Read more

  • My acting debut!

    Sherlock Holmes – A Post-modern live radio play The iconic detective as you’ve never seen … or heard him before—reincarnated in the weird world of ‘foley’ sound effects, visual and vocal gymnastics. Sherlock Holmes confronts his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in a tale of suspense, terror and bizarre Victorian morality—complete with French maids, cockney safe-crackers, Hackney Read more

  • A New Clubhouse for the Albert Park Golf Club

    Albert Park Golf Clubhouse by A.W. Purnell Miniature golf hazard by Tim Cameron Albert Park Golf Clubhouse and miniature golf hazard by Yuan-Min Tao Albert Park Golf Clubhouse by Gerry De Guzman Albert Park Golf Clubhouse by Nur Zainal Abidin Albert Park Golf Clubhouse by Avish Mungur Read more

  • Los Angeles and Texas, April 2011

      Clifton’s—One of my favourite places in Los Angeles A step back into the 1930s Westwood Cemetery—Another favourite place in Los Angeles No caption required Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor, the stars of Green Acres Loretta King & Thor Johnson in Bride of the Monster (1955) A new plaque for Don Knotts since I was Read more

  • Holidaying at Ninety-Mile Beach, Victoria (the Hamptons of the working class)

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  • Australia’s First and Second ‘Sherlock Holmes’ — Harry Plimmer and Cuyler Hastings

    New Zealand actor Harry Plimmer played Holmes in Perth and Adelaide in J.C. Williamson’s 1902 production of Sherlock Holmes. Canadian actor and William Gillette protégé Cuyler Hastings played Holmes in the other Australian state capitals in 1902.  The following photograph shows Hastings as Holmes (right), Redge Carey as Billy (centre) and J.B. Atholwood as Moriarty Read more

  • Iran-bound

    Earlier this year I received a travel grant from the Iran Heritage Foundation to visit Iran to look at patterned and sculptured brickwork.  I went on the 22nd of November and came back on the 13th of December.  I visited Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Yazd, Kashan, and Tabriz.  I’m happy to report that Iran is no Read more

  • The Doll Theatre Project

    The Doll Theatre Project Derham Groves The first cohort of students to do the new Bachelor of Environments degree at the University of Melbourne completed the course in semester two of last year, 2010. “Architectural Design Studio 4: Fire,” which I coordinated, was the Architecture Major students’ final design subject. The task of the 183 Read more

  • Peter E. Sayers’ Travel Diary

    In 1959 Peter E. Sayers, a serious young man from St. Kilda East, and nine other ‘young Australian ambassadors’ embarked on an amazing 3-month ‘grand tour’ of the USA.  They saw the best and the worst of Cold War America, which Sayers faithfully recorded in his travel diary (which runs to approximately 25,000 words).  Each Read more

  • Anna May Wong’s Lucky Shoes

    Architecture students doing my Popular Art, Architecture and Design course at the University of Melbourne have designed and made pairs of shoes for the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong, which will appear in a book about Anna May to be published by the Culicidae Press early next year.  Here is a sample of the shoes: Read more