Sizeable Sculptures On Show By Sea

By Marcus Braid on October 14, 2014 in News

The enormous scale of Sculpture by the Sea will be on show in late October, quite literally.

Over 500,000 visitors are expected to converge on the coastal walk between Bondi and Tamarama from October 23 to November 9, and the sculptures won’t be hard to find.

Founding director David Handley has noted the robust size of this year’s sculptures, with a series of enormous works highlighting the event.

“There’s no rhyme or reason to that,” Mr Handley said. “We haven’t pushed for it; it’s just something that’s happened. We always want some really large works because it’s a big space and it needs large works to hold some of that space.

Argentinian artist Alejandro Proeato has produced a massive work called ‘Permanent Sunrise’, which is 50 metres wide and almost five metres off the ground.

“This sculpture is going to be on Tamarama Beach and there’s six kilometres of coloured nylon line suspended on poles, and there’s a certain point that it all knots in together in the middle of the sculpture,” Mr Handley said.

“Somehow or another, there are three different colours that when used together like this really give you the sense of all the vibrancy of the colours of a sunrise. It’s really going to be a very beautiful work and definitely one of the most popular in the show.”

Cave Urban, an artistic group that produced the Bali Bombings memorial on show at the exhibition in 2012, has made another sizeable work.

“That’s going to be on the lookout at the end of Marks Park and it’s ginormous,” Mr Handley said.

“I think it’s going to be something like 12 metres high. These guys are architects, artists and designers. There’s even more of an architectural aspect to this installation than their previous work. It’s going to be spectacular out on the end of Marks Park.”

Stephen King, last year’s winner of the $60,000 Macquarie Group major prize, is also back in action again with his own “super scale” installation.

For more information about Sculpture by the Sea, go to www.sculpturebythesea.com.