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All in the Same Boat 2021

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Ark 2021

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Ark 2021

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Ghost Ship 2021

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Mother Ship 2021

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Rattle 2021

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Rattle 2021

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Rattle 2021

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Tommy Sheahan's Clinker 2021

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Tommy Sheahan's Clinker 2021

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Tree Boat 2021

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Tree Boat 2021

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Vessel 2021

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Worse Things Happen at Sea

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Wrecked 2021

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Wrecked 2021

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Behind Wire

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Behind Wire

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Behind Wire

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Christmas in Detention

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Michael Purdy - untitled

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Monument to the Long Term Perils of Short Term Politics

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Monument to the Long Term Perils of Short Term Politics

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Resignation (Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2014)

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Street Walking Cheetah

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Street Walking Cheetah

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Tectonic 2011

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Wave I

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Wave II

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Wave III

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Wave IV

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Spinal Column - Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2012

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Spinal Column - Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2012

Michael has devoted a huge chunk of his life to learning about sandstone. "Just handling stone, carrying stone, unloading stone, splitting stone - all these things teach me to celebrate sandstone."

Colleen Duncan "Celebrating Stone" South Coast Style Magazine, Autumn, 2011.