(clockwise) Eric Pearce (newsreader, GTV9); Happy Hammond, King Corkey, Professor Ratbaggy, Susan Gay Anderson, and Bernard the Magician (THE TARAX SHOW, GTV9); George Johnston (Australian author); Hopalong Cassidy; Chris Cobb (WHIPLASH); Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty; Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Cedric Price (architects).
Brilliant work Derham
So honoured Dad is in the mix . Love it
A while ago, I tried to interest the design website Dezeen in these surrealist images of my whittled heads, out and about in the world, as it were. No interest whatsoever! Nevertheless, I still rather like them. Cedric Price at Hudson Yards in New York, where the “Shed” by Liz Diller was based on his unbuilt Fun Palace. The image also reminds me of the opening to a James Bond film—Price as Bond! Robert Venturi standing in front of his ‘101 Dalmatians’-inspired fire station at Disney World in Florida. In the early 1960s, Happy Hammond took THE HAPPY SHOW on HSV-7 to the Northern Territory—uncommon in those days before reconciliation. One of the most famous “untold” Sherlock Holmes adventures is ‘The Giant Rat of Sumatra.’ Holmes is pictured next to the giant cat of Brunswick West! Professor Moriarty at the Guggenheim in New York. Photographed in front of Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous skylight, he looks like a spider at the centre of its web. George Johnston felt more at home in Greece than he did in Australia. By the time he left in the late 1960s, his health had begun to fail and he was looking very pale and sickly. In this image, it almost appears like George has become part of the architecture of Hydra, as he leaves his home for town to await the mail boat and drink red wine. Anyway, you get the idea…