Art pushed new boundaries on October 28, 1969, when work to wrap an entire Australian clifftop in 100,000 square metres of plastic was completed, creating the world's biggest artwork.

The public was finally able to see 2.5 kilometres of Little Bay, in south-east Sydney, shrouded beneath plastic polyweave from cliff top to base.

The brainchild of the work, known as Wrapped Coast, was Bulgarian-born artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon.

They spent 10 weeks at the Little Bay coordinating an army of art students and climbing enthusiasts given the arduous task of wrapping the headland, The Sydney Morning Herald reported at the time.

A special gun was used to fire steel rivets to secure clips into the clifftops for the 56km of climbing rop

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