Joan Grounds

[2][3] After meeting and marrying American/Australian artist Marr Grounds, she lived in Ghana for two years while he lectured in architecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi.

[2] She would continue to engage with nature in later site-specific installation work, including the "Four Quartets" in 1987-1988.

Grounds was the director of the Tin Sheds at Sydney University from 1976 to 1979, after co-founding the art workshop with her husband and Donald Brook.

Grounds fostered the Tin Sheds as a vibrant hub for a diversity of politically active artists, students and the broader community and it supported many sub-groups.

Harsha, Rik Rue, Margaret Dodd, Stevie Wishhart, and Jane Finlay.