Sculptures by the Sea

For two weeks during mid-October, Bondi Beach hosted the world's largest annual free-to-the-public outdoor sculpture exhibition, Sculpture by the Sea. This is the 18th year of the very popular exhibition. One of Sydney's most loved events, the spectacular Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk is transformed into a two kilometre long temporary sculpture park featuring over 100 sculptures by artists from Australia and across the world.

This post is mainly going to be an epic photo drop, since there's not much to say other than we spent the morning walking through a very busy but also very interesting outdoor gallery. The out door art often also took into account the environment and many pieces worked with elements of the environment to enhance it's visual or conceptual impact, which I thought was really cool. The thing I found really cool about this show was that it's a completely privately funded event; meaning, it's not put on by the government with some stimulus or other, but rather, it's a legitimate curated gallery show where all the pieces are for sale. Also, I especially enjoyed the small-scale sculpture tent where artists displayed mock-up, exploration or miniature derivatives of the larger scale pieces displayed outside.

Overall, it was a really well-put together event, and the only annoyance was how busy it was! 

Recycled plastic bottle caps and zip ties.

This was Rob's favourite

A Tara in a box

Spirograph!

The last photo taken by the camera before Rob accidentally dropped and broke it... that's the second camera to die while traveling...

Bondi beach walk

A cool sculptural structure

Mock-up version vs. real life piece

Mock-up version, and then the life-size version representing the Bondi Sunset

Loved these dudes

Snakes and Ladders....haha!

Giant frying pan!

At the end of the morning, we headed back to the motorcycle to go home, and we discovered we had been totally blocked in by other motorcycles and scooters. We had parked in that orange space, and had to move the bike beside us over so that we could very carefully try to snake the bike out between the truck beside us and the second row of bikes. Super frustrating, but we did it!