Peter Adams

In the early 1990s Peter quit his tenured position at the University of Tasmania and bought 100 acres of bush (a Bush Lot) on the coast of southeastern Tasmania. He needed something to live in and through a series of random events came across this 1959 Bedford school bus that had been converted to travel.  The owners had written PEACE on it.  Peter bought it and kept it as is.  He drove it out to his new land and halfway down his freshly bull-dozed muddy 1 mile long driveway it got stuck. Continue reading Living in the Peace Bus

We walked out to the point at Peter’s Windgrove for Christmas morning and I took a 360 pano. Peter and Emily are dangling their feet off 100 foot cliffs (or I should be saying “30 meter cliffs”.) Click the image above or the link below to see it.  Definitely make it full screen, pan around, zoom in, enjoy the view.

http://www.360cities.net/image/the-point-at-windgrove#33.40,14.60,70.0

Peter – this massive, slightly stubborn, always adorable Harvard graduate, one cylinder man-engine – has built a true accomplishment in a very remote bush location. He is regularly visited by international artists, environmentalists, thinkers, poets, and wayward travelers.  He is frequently interviewed, video-taped, and written about concerning his artistic site-specific work and building of Windgrove.  This recent short video from a series about Tasmania is perfect.  It is simply Peter talking directly about his work. Check it out.

However, Peter is a long time deep friend of mine for over 30 years and I wanted to see him, the individual.  I want the back story as much as the front story.  This photo of his complex at Roaring Beach speaks volumes to me.   Click “Continue Reading” to get a short description of what this photo illustrates. Click the photo to see the details.  Continue reading The Engine Behind Windgrove.