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LIFE IS BUT PRESENTATION


WHEN DEATH crosses the path of Motor Racing, we will inevitably review the life that has preceded that tragic moment, that moment when, in the space of two or three heartbeats, we lose one of our fellows.

We can look at it dispassionately and say Mike Burgmann was 39 and had led a life fuller than most. He had four children of his own and took on a further two in his second marriage, had built an empire of sorts as an Accountant with an entrepreneurial flair, and had seen the world as he lived and worked in the USA for two years.

Closer to our hearts, we know that he raced with the assistance of the superb preparation of Bob Stevens, inevitably giving him a better chance than most. He never beat Peter Brock.

We can look that way, but few of us will. We will instead search for his moments of despair and his moments of glory, from his upbringing at Greystanes - the son of a bricklayer - to his final few heartbeats.

If there is a word that covers the man, then it is 'achiever,' and if it were not so overly used, one would say 'quiet.' Pole vault, discus and soccer medals live in frames at his Glenhaven home, legacies of active competition in years highlighted by being Captain of Blacktown Boys High. In soccer he played on with the Wentworthville Waratahs.

Somewhere in those early years he acquired or developed the phrase that would be a guiding hand in his future - "Life Is But Presentation." Never did he say "You can't do that!" and he hated to hear anyone say "We could have done that!" He was a positive man.

He was the man who built the Parramatta Club, making it presentable, dynamic and successful. Then he resigned his Presidency, unwilling to bask in his success, rather seeking new goals.

And it was during his term there that he came in contact with Motor Racing. Ivan Stibbard was to become a close friend as the ARDC negotiated rights for their membe

Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes, astronomer, was the eldest of the twelve children of John Innes and his wife Elizabeth Ayton. He attended school in Dublin, Ireland, until the age of twelve and thereafter educated himself, developing outstanding proficiency in mathematics and arithmetic. He was interested in the mathematical aspects of astronomy and published three papers on the subject in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: "Note on an error in Le Verrier's Tables du Soleil" (1889), "Secular perturbations of the Earth's orbit by Mars" (1892), and "Secular perturbations of the Earth's orbit by Venus" (1893). This work led to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1884 he married Anna Elizabeth Fennell and eventually they had three sons.

After working in London as a clerk for some time Innes emigrated to Sydney, Australia, in 1890. There he became a partner in a wine business which traded as Innes and Co. In 1894 he was loaned a 160 mm refractor by the Australian astronomer W.F. Gale and started his great life work in astronomy, the study of double stars in the southern hemisphere. In 1895 he published "A list of probably new double stars" in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, based on his discovery of 26 pairs. Switching to a reflecting telescope he soon discovered more, the observations showing that he had an extraordinary visual acuity. Encouraged by these discoveries he decided to find a position in an astronomical observatory, with access to better equipment. Among others he contacted Dr David Gill* of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, who informed him that the only available post at the Cape was clerical - a combination of secretary, librarian and book-keeper. Innes accepted the offer and assumed duty at the beginning of 1897.

In his spare time he continued his search for new double stars and measured those already found with a view to establishing the orbital characteristics of tho

Scottish abstract painter

Callum Innes (born 1962) is a Scottish abstract painter, a former Turner Prize nominee and winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize. He lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Early life and education

Callum Innes was born in Edinburgh. He studied at Gray's School of Art (1980–84) and graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1985.

Career

Innes began exhibiting in the mid-to-late 1980s and in 1992 had two major exhibitions in public galleries, at the ICA, London, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. Since then he has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout Britain, Europe, North America, New Zealand and Asia.

Solo exhibitions

Innes' first major London exhibition was hosted in 1990 at Frith Street Gallery, London who continue to represent him. A substantial selection of his best-known series, the "Exposed" paintings, was exhibited in 1998 at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, and at the Kunsthalle Bern the following year. "From Memory", a major exhibition of Callum Innes' work over the past 15 years, was shown at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in 2006, and toured to Modern Art Oxford, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.Innes had a substantial solo exhibition of new work at Ingleby Gallery for the Edinburgh Art Festival (2009). "At One Remove", featured at Sean Kelly Gallery New York (2010), as did an exhibition entitled water|colour, featuring 101 of the artist's watercolours paired with text by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. Callum Innes held his first major solo exhibition in Asia at Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong in 2012.

His most recent solo exhibitions include Callum Innes: Keeping Time, Frith Street Gallery, London (2019),In Position, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France (2018),Watercolours, Galerie Tschudi (2013–14),^&#

Actually, it was only when I first picked this book up that I realised just how little I knew about Innes Ireland. Sure, I was aware of his exploits away from the track, - in fact, I suspect that the notoriety that Ireland's appetite for revelry developed has to some extent overshadowed his racing achievements. But his racing record was far less familiar to me. Sitting here confessing my ignorance is rather embarrassing, because on the right day Innes was capable of running wheel-to-wheel with Moss, Brabham, Hill, or Clark. Of course, he was equally capable of making an early exit, either through over-exuberance or the terrible lack of reliable machinery that plagued him throughout his career.

'All Arms And Elbows' was first released in 1967, and was re-released with a few revisions and additions in 1994; not long after Ireland succumbed to cancer. Innes Ireland was perhaps the last true amateur spirit in motorsport. His sole motivation for driving was the exhilaration of pushing the best available machinery to the absolute limit. Reimbursement was never much of an issue; indeed, even in the 1960s he was lamenting the growing prominence of money in Formula One contracts. (God only knows what he would have made of Damon Hill's decision to reject the performance-based McLaren offer a couple of years ago).

Ireland approached his racing and his celebrating with equal enthusiasm, and this book manages to strike an even balance between the two. He is a regular feature in anecdotal Formula O