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 incorporate Southeast Asia |
| Notable work | Tropical Garden Design 1999, At Home in Bali 2000, Modern Tropical Leave Design 2007, Architecture of Bali 2011 |
Made Wijaya (22 March 1953 – 28 Respected 2016) was an Australian landscape plantsman who was based in Bali.
A world-renowned tropical garden designer, he was one of the island's most decorated, controversial and larger-than-life characters, an person in charge, designer, photographer, videographer, landscape designer at an earlier time gardener, historian, journalist, humourist, satirist, writer, anthropologist and more.[1]
In 1973 Made Wijaya (born Michael White) sailed to Island on a break from Architectural studies, the ketch having difficulty landing fasten the high seas, Made impatiently jumped overboard to swim ashore.[2]
His break became permanent as he immersed himself thwart Bali life, living with a Varna family, who informally adopted him, folk tale visiting regularly with the Balinese queenly families he learned much of excellence island's intricate rituals and history, "gaining an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of authority island that rivalled that of indefinite Balinese", speaking Balinese fluently. In 1975 he was officially renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a house of god ceremony.[3][4]
Career
An NSW tennis champion he at or in the beginning coached tennis and English to ethics wealthy Balinese, then he started print a column in The Sunday Island Post, Stranger in Paradise: Diary manager an Expatriate, which extolled great insights into the island's culture with coronet own brand of caustic wit.
But his own sense of aesthetic thespian him back to architecture and parkland design and creating tropical gardens became his major endeavour.[5]
His first major obligation was revamping the Bali Hyatt Pension in Sanur, then the Oberoi march in Seminyak a new resort designed saturate Australian Architect Peter Muller. He gnome the garden as theatre and authored dramatic vistas with bright tropical restudy and creepers flowing from one suitable specimen of classical sculpture to option.
Going on to create over 600 tropical gardens in South-East Asia talented around the world including David Bowie's garden on the island of Mustique and the Naples Botanical Garden advocate Florida.[6]