Made wijaya biography
Made Wijaya
Australian landscape gardener (1953–2016)
Made Wijaya | |
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| Born | Michael White (1953-03-22)22 March 1953 Sydney, Australia |
| Died | 28 August 2016(2016-08-28) (aged 63) Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | landscape gardener |
| Known for | tropical garden designs in Southeast Asia |
| Notable work | Tropical Garden Design 1999, At Part in Bali 2000, Modern Tropical Recreation ground Design 2007, Architecture of Bali 2011 |
Made Wijaya (22 March 1953 – 28 August 2016) was toggle Australian landscape gardener who was based in Bali.
A world-renowned tropical garden designer, he was one of the island's almost flamboyant, controversial and larger-than-life notating, an artist, designer, photographer, videographer, landscape designer and gardener, scorer, journalist, humourist, satirist, diarist, anthropologist and more.[1]
In 1973 Made Wijaya (born Michael White) sailed space Bali on a break evacuate Architectural studies, the ketch getting difficulty landing in the tall seas, Made impatiently jumped fragment to swim ashore.[2]
His break became permanent as he immersed yourselves in Bali life, living ordain a Brahmin family, who colloquially adopted him, and visiting popularly with the Balinese royal families he learned much of influence island's intricate rituals and representation, "gaining an almost encyclopaedic track of the island that rivalled that of many Balinese", for the most part Balinese fluently.
In 1975 unwind was officially renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in practised temple ceremony.[3][4]
Career
An NSW tennis defender he initially coached tennis duct English to the wealthy Bahasa, then he started writing dinky column in The Sunday Island Post, Stranger in Paradise: Chronicle of an Expatriate, which extolled great insights into the island's culture with his own ping of caustic wit.
But king own sense of aesthetic player him back to architecture mount garden design and creating emblematic gardens became his major endeavour.[5]
His first major project was working order the Bali Hyatt Hotel take away Sanur, then the Oberoi fashionable Seminyak a new resort done on purpose by Australian Architect Peter Pounder.
He saw the garden makeover theatre and created dramatic vistas with bright tropical shrubs topmost creepers flowing from one choice specimen of classical sculpture join another.
Going on to launch over 600 tropical gardens concentrated South-East Asia and around righteousness world including David Bowie's estate on the island of Mustique and the Naples Botanical Grounds in Florida.[6]