Posted October 21, 2018 10:10:21
The annual festival of art and kitsch features 100 works of art arranged along the spectacular coastal walk.
Photo: Sculpture “Horizon” by sculptor Mu Boyan features a heavily overweight man, symbolising prosperity.
(ABC Arts: Teresa Tan)
Anne Levitch’s set of seven astroturfed puzzle pieces is titled “Turf Wars”.
Photo: Sculpture “Turf Wars” by Anne Levitch at Sculpture by the Sea. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
“I’ve really worked by fingers to the bone making this piece,” she says.
Photo: Sculpture “Turf Wars” by Anne Levitch at Sculpture by the Sea. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
This large inflatable work references Damien Hirst’s iconic shark-in-a-tank.
Photo: Sculpture “Damien Hirst Looking for Sharks” pays homage to Damien Hirst’s work, ‘The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Somebody Living’. (ABC Arts: Teresa Tan)
This large apple is the work of South Korean artist Yong-Hwan Jeon.
Photo: Sculpture “Space from the One” by Yong-Hwan Jeon at Sculpture by the Sea. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
“Horizon”, by sculptor Mu Boyan, features a heavily overweight man.
Photo: Sculpture “Horizon” by sculptor Mu Boyan features a heavily overweight man, symbolising prosperity. (ABC Arts: Teresa Tan)
Wajarri Yamatji artist Nicole Monks’ work begins with Aboriginal rock carvings on Bondi headland.
Photo: Aboriginal rock carving of a whale shark at Bondi headland. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
“Gawura Guruwin” (Whale Shark) has been redrawn by Gadigal Elder Charles Madden and built with six tonnes of native timber on Tamarama Beach.
Photo: “Gawura Guruwin”, a 20-metre wide timber rendering of an Aboriginal rock carving, is ignited as a sculptural fire at Sculpture by the Sea. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
As night falls, Gawura Guruwin is set on fire.
Photo: “Gawura Guruwin”, a 20-metre wide timber rendering of an Aboriginal rock carving, is ignited as a sculptural fire at Sculpture by the Sea. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
Britt Mikkelsen’s “Lair” pays homage to the iconic funnel web spider.
Photo: Britt Mikkelsen’s Lair pays homage to the iconic Sydney Funnel Web Spider. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
The installation is made of 60kms of biodegradable cotton string.
Nearby, a sculpture is posed like Botticelli’s Venus.
Photo: Sculpture “Whispering to Venus” is a 3D print of the naked artist Itamar Freed. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
Israeli artist Itamar Freed used a mobile 3D scanner to capture himself.
Photo: Sculpture “Whispering to Venus” is a 3D print of the naked artist Itamar Freed. (ABC News: Teresa Tan)
While scanning, the 3D model glitched and fractured because of an algorithm error, creating extra limbs.
Sculpture by the Sea runs in Sydney until Nov 4 and in Perth from March 1-18, 2019.
Photo: Sculpture “The Face” by Deborah Halpern at Sculpture by the Sea. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
Credits
- Story and photography: Jack Fisher and Teresa Tan (ABC Arts)
- Video: Jack Fisher
- Drone video: Jack Fisher and Peter Robinson
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, visual-art, street-art, art-and-design, tamarama-2026
source : www.abc.net.au
