Sculpture by the Sea
Take a peek at Australia’s open-air exhibition Sculpture by the Sea
BY SHANNON CONNELLAN From Mashable
Burger bait. A cavalcade of charging horses. A plastic bubble paradise. They’re all sitting on the coastline of Australia.
Every year, the two-kilometre coastal walk from Sydney’s Bondi Beach to Tamarama becomes an open-air gallery for the celebrated Sculpture by the Sea exhibition, with selected artists invited to install sculptural works along the shoreline for three weeks in spring.
Started in 1997 and now featuring 100 works every year, it’s one of Australia’s most popular, free, annual events, attracting half a million visitors in 2016.
Running Oct. 19 to Nov. 5, this year’s exhibition is a highly abstract show, with a few cheeky works along the way. This year, Australian sculptor David Ball took out the exhibition’s A$60,000 ($47,154) prize for his steel work titled Orb.
Can’t get to Sydney? Have a wander below:
Karl Meyer, ‘Foci’ (2017)
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Karl Meyer, ‘Foci’ (2017)
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Britt Mikkelsen, ‘Ocean Lace’ (2015)
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Stephen Marr, ‘Under One Sky’ (2017)
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Stephen Marr, ‘Under One Sky’ (2017)
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James Dive, ‘What a Tasty Looking Burger’ (2017)
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Elyssa Sykes-Smith, ‘Stagnation’ (2017)
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Harrie Fasher, ‘The Last Charge’ (2017)
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Harrie Fasher, ‘The Last Charge’ (2017)
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John Petrie, ‘Space’ (2017)
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Winner, David Ball ‘Orb’ (2017)
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Simon Hodgson, ‘Melencolia’ (2017)
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Xia Hang, ‘Rangerer’ (2017)
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Lucy Barker, ‘Sea Through’ (2017)
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Fatih Semiz, ‘Curious Dream of an Architect’ (2017)
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Kathy Allam, ‘Plastic Paradise’ (2017)
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Linton Meagher, ‘Look out for Me’ (2017)
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Yoshio Nitta, ‘I Put a Moon on the Table But it Has a Hole and is Lacking’ (2017)
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Sonia Payes, ‘Littoral Echo’ (2017)
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Tetsuro Yamasaki, ‘Circle on the Earth’ (2017)
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Tango Conway & Amelia Skelton, ‘White Wash (2017)
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Jock Clutterbuck, ‘Song of the Aisors’ (2017)
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April Pine.
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Orest Keywan, ‘Bronze Age’ (2017)
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Small Ocean Collaboration with Jeremy Sheehan, ‘Rise and Fall’ (2017)
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Denise Pepper, ‘Leaden Hearts’ (2017)
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