'I had always seen this from down below,' she explains. 'I thought it was a sort of castle up there, so one day I walk up to see. And I saw it was a whole village, completely broken down; small, but houses all together. It is old, like medieval, like Etruscan, always there, always poor. Just the stones. Primitive. So I decide to buy it. This is where I want to live, to make a village for artists.'

A symbol of Peralta, rising from its own stones

Her Rome exhibition 1975

With Ruskin Spear and others at the Royal College of Art

Visitors to Peralta view the process of making a mould for the "Calabrian Woman"

Building the tower at Peralta

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