Sculpture by the Sea 2023
Sculpture by the Sea 2023
Congratulations must go to Sculpture by the Sea organiser David Handley on the event’s 25th anniversary.
David started this Bondi Beach to Tamarama sculpture walk in 1996 with $400 to spend. Incredibly, 25,000 people did that first walk. These days Sculpture by the Sea attracts around 450,000 people and is one the most popular events of its kind in the world.
Sharyn Egan (Western Australia)
Maar Balga: In Nyoongar culture the Balga (grass trees) have important uses as tools and shelter. (Ed: as an aside, in the local Sydney language the balga is known as the gadi. Hence the Gadigal meaning the people of the gadi.)
Ayad Alqaragholli (Western Australia | Iraq)
Welcome Habibi to My Life: This artwork represents the value of love and freedom of life in Australia. An artistic message honouring our quality of life now and for generations to come.
India Collins (Queensland | Canada)
Yatra ‘Journey’: A tribute to the mysterious and ethereal jellyfish. Evoking notions of departure, eliciting possibilities of alternate existential realities, this work presents a visceral and poetic exposition of our deepest vulnerabilities.
Jimmy Rix (Victoria)
A Bridge Too Far: Home ownership is a bridge too far - interest rate hikes, cost of living, owning or keeping a home for many Australians is now in the balance. The Great Australian Dream could be just that - ‘only a dream evaporating into the clouds’.
Lucy Barker (NSW)
On Line Clothes Swap: Can art be an agent of social change? This work represents a common desire to find new sustainable ways to live. The audience is invited to share resources by hanging pre-loved clothes, or removing them from the line.
Stephen King (NSW)
Crooked Men from Hurricane Gully: A storm came up out of Hurricane Gully and felled over a million trees, no-one died so it didn’t make the news. These trees came from Bruce and Sal’s place.
Sculpture by the Sea closes on 6 November.
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We would like to thank friend of Bondi Observer photographer and artist Julia Champtaloup for some of the above photographs and copy.
