25 years

  • Mu Boyan, 'Horizon', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018. Photo Gareth Carr
  • Benjamin Storch, 'Undulation', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Jessica Wyld
  • David Cerny, 'Pinktank Wrecked', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019. Henri Fanti
  • Cave Urban, 'Save our Souls', Sculpure by the Sea, Bondi 2014. Photo Gareth Carr
  • Andrew Scott, clydebuilt
  • Joel Adler, 'Lens' Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022. Photo Gareth Carr
  • Phil Price, 'Snake', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013. Photo W Patino
  • Norton Flavel, 'Just Another', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2016. Photo Clyde Yee
  • Orest Keywan, 'Place', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019. Photo Clyde Yee
  • Margarita Sampson, 'Urchins', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 1997. Photo Clyde Yee
  • Byeong Doo Moon, 'i have been dreaming to be a tree...II', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi. Photo Jacqui White
  • Marcus Tatton, 'The Ruin', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2011. Photo Sam Burns
  • Juan Pablo Pinto & Cristian Rojas, 'Selfish', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022. Photo Charlotte Curd
  • The Glue Society, Hot with a Chance of a Late Storm, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2006. Photo L Beaumont
  • Nikita Zigura, 'Global Warming', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022. Photo Gareth Carr
  • Harrie Fasher, 'The Last Charge', Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2017. Photo Jessica Wyld

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi celebrated 25 years as the world’s largest, free-to-the-public outdoor sculpture exhibition in 2023. 

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi began in 1997 as a one-day exhibition run by volunteers working out of the Founding Director’s lounge room featuring works by 64 artists and attended by 25,000 visitors.

In 1998, Sculpture by the Sea was commissioned to create five exhibitions around Australia for the Sydney Olympics Arts Festival ‘A Sea Change’, in Darwin, Noosa, Albany, the Tasman Peninsula and Bondi.

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi has now celebrated 25 years being the world’s largest free-to-the-public outdoor sculpture exhibition for over two decades, exhibiting 2,691 sculptures by 1,129 artists from 51 countries. It is visited by up to half a million people each year. Most of Australia’s leading sculptors of the last 30 years have exhibited numerous times including May Barrie, Bert Flugelman AM, Inge King AM, Stephen King, Michael Le Grand, Ron Robertson-Swann OAM, Michaelie Crawford & Julie Turpin, and Ken Unsworth AM.  The exhibition’s international profile has resulted in some of the biggest international names in sculpture exhibiting, including: Sir Anthony Caro, Phillip King CBE (England), Sui Jian Guo, Chen Wen Ling (China), Kozo Nishino (Japan), Fletcher Benton (USA) and David Černý (Czech Republic).

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