This sculpture is one of the most photographed and popular this year.
The sculptor, Simon McGrath has won the Sydney Water and Environment prize, worth $10 000.
I won’t be surprised if it wins the “People’s Choice” award.
I really liked Jane Gillings’ Dream House in a previous Sculpture By The Sea.
Read more about her here (official site) and on her own blog.
Ken Unsworth is one of Australia’s most recognised sculptors and installation artists. One of his works, Stones Against The Sky has had a controversial presence in Sydney, often derided as “poo on sticks”. I quite like it.
One of my favourite Unsworth workd is Suspended stone circle II. It was on display at the Art Gallery of NSW for some years.
This work won the Children’s Choice award at 2011 Sculpture By The Sea.
Along the route of the Sculpture walk, several of the benches are decorated with this webbing effect.
They are like the folding aluminium picnic chairs which used to be popular when I was younger.
Lucy Barker says on her website:
“For this work I have revived 5 existing benches around the Bondi – Tamarama walk by adorning them with colourful, vintage polypropylene chair webbing, a la beach chairs and folding aluminium chairs of lesiure. They become a reminder to stop, slow down and ponder how things have changed, and what may have stayed the same.”
Entitled this is one of those things that hopefully will just go away in time, by Bjorn Godwin and Jette Gejl.
It did make me wonder, however, what it is that is just going to go away in time? Protest? Stuff people are protesting against? Foreplay?
The Yearning by Margarita Sampson won the The Andrea Stretton Memorial Invitation to Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe in March 2012.These yellow sea slugs are made from recycled banners.
Here’s a fun piece by Ian Swift who lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. Have a lok at some of his other works and a bit about him here. Swift uses a lot of found objects in his art.
In browsing that site I found that he had an exhibition on Sydney’s Ocean Baths, which certainly fascinate me. So I’ve commissioned a local resident to get me a copy of the catalogue.