OBITUARY / Derek Fuller Wrigley, OAM, February 16, 1924, Oldham, Lancashire – June 22, 2021, Canberra.
MASTER designer Derek Wrigley, who
died on June 22 in Canberra left an extraordinary legacy in Canberra, Australia and arguably the world.
Derek came to Australia in 1947. He worked for a short time with a firm of architects in Sydney and then became a lecturer in architecture at Sydney Technical College & University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales).
In 1956 he was the co-founder, with Fred Ward, of the Industrial Design Council of Australia, (IDCA) and was the first honorary secretary. He was also the chair of the IDCA Education Committee for the first three years. Derek was passionate about the importance of design and art in education and right until the end was writing about this importance.
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Anne Fraser,
, performed by the Victorian State Opera, 1980, nla.pic-vn3060965
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The second and third generation of the Marks family to run the jewellery business – (L–R) Graeme Marks, Rolf Marks, Ken Marks, and Percy Marks Jr. Inset: An Australian black opal brooch gifted from founder Percy The Opal King Marks to his wife, Eliza Robinson Barton.
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FOUNDED BY Percy Marks
Percy Marks was established in Sydney in 1899 and is one of Australia’s most respected family jewellery businesses, with four generations of the Marks family standing behind it.
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HARRY NICOLSON: 1923 – 2021
Some 15 years ago, standing on the remains of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, I found myself drifting away from the incredible view, and the sheer gravitas of where I was, back into a history classroom in Sydney. I was in two places at once. It was unexpected, yet remarkable and moving.
In its day, Delphi was the most sacred and mysterious slice of real estate in Greece. Now the ruined remnant of the Oracle, it remains an astonishing monument to the mystical yearnings of the baffled midwives of Western civilisation.