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Twenty Years of Sculpture by the Sea
Sculpture by the Sea began as an eccentric idea that has since caught the imagination of a nation. It has become an institution in its own right and now is as firmly entrenched in the country’s psyche as is the Archibald Portrait Prize. Today it would be difficult to imagine the arts calendar without Sculpture…
2022 Bondi Catalogue Essay: Artists in the time of COVID
We asked a cross section of artists exhibiting in this year’s Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi to reflect on how their lives and work changed due to the pandemic lockdowns. For some, the world changed in other ways, with the outbreak of war, for others, new creative avenues were explored. Egor Zigura Ukraine Covid…
The Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail
Can art help save rural communities, raise spirits, and improve the quality of life? Right at this moment, there is a bold experiment taking place to do precisely that and, so far, it has been a resounding success. In the summer of 2019-20 bushfires devastated the scenic Snowy Valleys with huge areas of bushland and…
Celebrating 50 Exhibitions in Australia & Denmark
With this year’s 18th annual Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe we celebrate the 50th Sculpture by the Sea exhibition held in Australia and Denmark. Sculpture by the Sea began as a one day exhibition in 1997 along the 2km Bondi coastal walk in Sydney run by a team of volunteers working from the Founding Director’s…
Artists in the time of COVID
From solitude to silver linings, a cross-section of exhibiting artists were asked to reflect on 2020, and the impact of the COVID pandemic from an artist’s perspective. Vivi Linnemann, Denmark I was in the process of renting new Ateliers in Denmark and Switzerland, when we all realised that Covid was going to change life as we…
2009 – 2020 Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe Access & Inclusion
Jacqueline Homer, DADAA Head of Production and Petra Pattinson, former Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe School Education Access & Inclusion Program Manager, tell the story of the development of the access and inclusion programs at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe. This year we are excited to celebrate the twelfth year of the Sculpture by the…
2019 Bondi Catalogue Essay: Celebrating 30 Years of Freedom
Written by David Handley AM, Founding Director, Sculpture by the Sea ‘111 / 2019’ Celebrating 30 Years of Freedom Václav Fiala’s sculpture, ‘Tower for Jan Palach’, being exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi this year, is a soaring tribute to the act of self-immolation by Jan Palach on 19 January 1969 in Prague’s Wenceslas…
Now you see me, now you don’t
Written by Dr Nien Schwarz, Artist & Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Perth. The scope and scale of the Perth and Sydney exhibitions is unprecedented anywhere in the world and requires diligent long-term planning and stakeholder commitment. At the end of February each year, Sculpture by the Sea moves into…
2018 Bondi Catalogue Essay: Matthew Harding (1964 – 2018)
Written by Ken Scarlett OAM, Curator and Author. Between 1999 and 2017, Victorian artist Matthew Harding exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, in nine exhibitions. In honour of Mathew’s career a tenth sculpture is being exhibited on the Bondi coastal walk this year, 2018. The premature death of any person is a tragedy, but the premature death…
The rise and rise of Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe
Written by Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA, Australian National University. Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe in 2018 marks its 14th anniversary and its transformation from a bold experiment in the public display of sculpture on the west coast of Australia to an established event on the national and international sculpture calendar. At the inaugural…
2017 Bondi Exhibition Catalogue Essay: Sculpture by the Sea: At 21 – Coming of Age
Written by Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA, Australian National University. “Where should I go?” – Alice “That depends on where you want to end up.”– the Cheshire Cat Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass In 21 years, Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi has grown from a single-day event organised by…
The sculptors from Western Australia & Sculpture by the Sea
Written by Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA, Australian National University. Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe has, for over a dozen years provided a critically significant forum for the national and international display of Sculpture in Western Australia; its unforgettable sunsets, as a setting for the display that incorporated the beach, foreshore. Although Western Australia…
2016 BONDI CATALOGUE ESSAY: 20 years of Sculpture by the Sea
Written by Geoffrey Edwards, Former Director, Geelong Art Gallery and former Senior Curator of Sculpture, National Gallery of Victoria. Geoffrey Edwards reflects on Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi and Cottesloe in the past 20 years. “I don’t think there is a piece of solid sculpture among the exhibits, they are nearly all tenuous types of things.” A…
Bob Juniper 1929 – 2012
Bob Juniper was one of the great Australian artists of his generation. Widely known and collected as a painter who was recognised as a Western Australian State Living Treasure in 1998, Bob was also an avid if sometimes frustrated sculptor who exhibited four times at Sculpture by the Sea in Perth and Sydney. Robert Litchfield…
2015 BONDI CATALOGUE ESSAY: Bequest Foot Forward
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Written by Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA A short History of the Helen Lempriere Scholarships Helen Lempriere Scholarships were first awarded at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2010. There are three scholarships given annually, one each – to an emerging, mid-career and senior sculptor – each worth $30,000 and designed to advance the sculptor’s…