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Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019 Exhibition Highlights Video
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Our exhibition video is here! Take a look at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019. Thanks to our videographer Dominic Kirkwood for filming and editing.
UNSW Alumni Recipients
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This year, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi includes six alumni from UNSW Art and Design and one UNSW Built Environment graduate. As a practising artist with more than 100 group exhibitions both in Australia and overseas, Richard Byrnes is still excited to be involved in this year’s Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi exhibition for the sixth time. “It’s great…
Aqualand Sculpture Award announced
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Sculpture by the Sea and Aqualand today announced Morgan Jones from New Zealand as the recipient of the $70,000 Aqualand Sculpture Award for The Sun Also Rises at the 23rd annual Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi. Sculpture by the Sea and Aqualand today announced respected New Zealand sculptor Morgan Jones as the recipient of the $70,000…
Helen Lempriere Scholarships Announced
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Perpetual and Sculpture by the Sea are pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s three prestigious $30,000 Helen Lempriere Scholarships: Senior Artist Michael Snape (NSW), Mid-Career Artist Louise Paramor (VIC), and Emerging Artist Nadia Odlum (NSW). The Helen Lempriere Scholarships are designed to enable the artists to further their…
Now you see me, now you don’t
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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…
Statement by Alice Spigelman AM, Chair of Sculpture by the Sea to Waverley Council Meeting 16 July 2019
Sculpture by the Sea has a 22 year relationship with Waverley Council a relationship we keenly hope will continue. At the outset I wish to state our organisation’s strongest possible support for accessibility. This is why, despite our very limited resources, we have sought funding and been at the forefront nationally of developing access programs…
Sign Petition
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How can you help? As we continue to advocate for a proper access path along the coastal walk, please sign the petition to stop the development of this path in Marks Park until proper consultation for an access path along the coastal walk can happen with Waverley Council. Please sign the petition here: http://chng.it/5ZMssrjpk8
WAVERLEY COUNCIL PATH PUTS SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, BONDI IN JEOPARDY
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MEDIA RELEASE – Thursday 11 July 2019 Waverley Council’s decision to build a 279m long by 1.8 metre wide concrete path around Marks Park on the south Bondi headland is set to put the annual Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi at risk, causing the popular exhibition to lose forever eight of the 10 best sites that…
Royal Prince Alfred March Arts 2019 Program
Thanks to Create NSW funding towards our Access & Inclusion Program we were able to continue to support the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) March Arts 2019 program. Sculpture by the Sea artist Barbara Licha was the recipient of the March Arts ‘Sculptor In Residence’ creating her work Hospitalscape, for three days, on site at the hospital with…
An Open Letter to Mark McGowan, The Premier of Western Australia and The Hon. David Templeman, Minister for Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries
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March 2019 Dear Premier and Minister, We, the following Western Australian artists (Perth and regional), who have exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe, are dismayed the Department of Cultural Industries does not provide substantial funding for the annual Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe exhibition. We want to thank you, Minister Templeman, for the…
Celia Hammond presents Andrea Stretton Memorial Invitation Award at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2019
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Thank you for the invitation and the introduction. I am delighted to be here at the 15th Sculpture by the Sea here in Cottesloe. I acknowledge all special guests – and I also want to acknowledge, applaud and thank David Handley, the Board of Sculpture by the Sea, the staff, the donors and all of…
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2019 Exhibition Video
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See spectacular footage of Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2019 filmed from above and up close on beautiful Cottesloe beach. Thanks to our videographer Richard Watson for filming and editing.
How is Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe funded?
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Many people ask how we raise the funds to stage Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe as a free exhibition each year. Many more people presume the exhibition is fully funded from government sources. It is a huge challenge raising the $2.2M to stage Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe each year. This pie chart shows how it…
The Tourism Western Australia Invited International Artist Phil Price
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Phil Price’s kinetic sculpture ‘Ipomoea’ moves according to the direction of the wind. ‘Ipomoea’, a noxious weed is grown for its beautiful appearance, with striking green foliage belying its rapacious growth and invasive habits.