The above photo I took whilst walking between Bondi Beach and Tamarama Beach is a very interesting one although unrelated to Sculpture By The Sea in any way. Yes it is a rougue artist but also a copycat one too. I have seen these types of rogue scupltures many times along the Seawall walk around Stanly Park near English Bay Canada. It is an Inuit style sculpture. Obviously this rogue artist decided to leave his mark in Sydney Australia although it does not have the same appeal as it does overseas. One difference is the location the sculptures have been placed - in a more sheltered location then overseas where these rogue sculptures tend to be placed closer to the sea hence being eroding away by the tides and becoming less permanent artworks only to be recreated many times over by the same or different rogue artists.
It's a Monday but still the queues for the
380 333 and
381 buses from
Bondi Junction Interchange towards
Bondi Beach are extremely long.
I had chosen not to go on a Saturday or a Sunday as you can imagine the sea of people flocking to Bondi Beach over the weekend. Weekdays it seems are just as bad and it is only 11.30 am!
Photos attached of the queues for the buses @ Bondi Junction Interchange. It is going to reach 35 degrees celcius today!!!! It was probably cooler outside then inside on the
M40 bus. It felt as if the heater was on in this bus and not the air conditioning - just what you need on a 50 minute bus ride express from Northern Sydney to Eastern Sydney! Now another connecting 333 bus from Bondi Junction Interchange to Bondi Beach with standing room only!
Just boarded the 333 bus bound for Bondi Beach - the bus is absolutely packed! Maybe I should have lined up for the 380 or 381 bus which just departed before this one - queues just as long but seemed to move faster.
This year
Sculpture By The Sea is on from
19th October - 5th November 2017. I almost missed it this year with all the other events and places I attended and visited. I thought I would see it before it ends next weekend.
Because it is my birthday weekend next weekend and I have plenty of things already planned for next weekend (and I am sure there will be even more of a sea of people attending as it is the closing weekend of Sculpture By The Sea) I decided not to attend on the final weekend of Sculpture By The Sea.
This year there were 104 artists on display according to the Sculpture By The Sea
21st Annual Exhibition catalogue/program book (which I purchased for $10 at one of several information booths)
between Bondi Beach and Tamarama Beach including Marks Park where you can also grab a bite to eat , have a toliet break , refill your water bottles or visit The Sydney Water stand for free samples of infused orange strawberry mint or lime water from large glass juice jars on tap or just view the miniture versions of Sculptures By The Sea for sale by artists inside an air conditioned tent.
Once I reached
Tamarama Beach I caught the
361 bus back to Bondi Junction Interchange transferring onto an M40 bus home. It was so hot (to keep me cool I had poured cold water all over my clothes at least 3 times - once at the beginning of my walk at Bondi Beach then again at Marks Park and finally at Tamarama Beach - each time my clothes were bone dry before I reached my destinations) I could not bare to walk all the way back to Bondi Beach to wait yet again for another 380 381 or 333 bus back to Bondi Junction Interchange. Many others at Tamarama Beach had the same idea, the 361 bus was almost full but not as full as the 333 bus I was on earlier.
Rating
8/10 - it is a free annual event unless you want to buy a catalogue/program which is $10 and recommended so you don't miss any of the
104 sculptures between Bondi and Tamarama Beaches. These are available using cash or card at Sculpture By The Sea Information booths run mostly by volunteers. Even when Sculpture By The Sea is not on during the year, the self paced walk between Bondi Beach and Tamarama even continuing on beyond both destinations is spectacular and a must do for visitors to and residents of Sydney however beware of steps and steeps enroute.
This years list of artists on display include :
1. "GET A HAIR CUT, GET A JOB" Karl De Waal QLD
2. "ARROWHEAD 2017 DARK NIGHT SHINE" Takahiro Hirata JAPAN
3."MEGA PIXAL POWER TOWER" Tom De Munk-Kerkmeer WA - one of my favourites
4. "RANGERER" Xia Hang CHINA
5. "SPACE" John Petrie NSW
6. "SEA EAGLE GLYPH" G.W. Bot ACT
7. "IMPOSSIBLE SHADOW # 2" Jennifer Cochrane WA
8. "SEA THROUGH" Lucy Barker NSW
9. "LEADEN HEARTS" Denise Pepper WA
10. "STAGNATION" Elyssa Sykes-Smith NSW
11. "WHAT A TASTY LOOKING BURGER" James Dive NSW - one of my favourites - making me hungry during my walk
12. "GREAT SOUTHERN NOONGAR" Janine McAullay Bott WA
13. "HIGH TIDE" Tsukasa Nakahara JAPAN
- one of my favourites and would be something I would display at home on a smaller scale but not for $20000!
14. "MURRAMANATTYA" Julie Gough TAS
15. "PLASTICON" Viviane Rombaldi Seppey SWITZERLAND/USA - I liked this one but every year one or more artists always has to produce a similar piece of artwork.
16. "FANTASIA" Akiho Tata JAPAN - loved this one too - it looked like frosted glass but it says it is actually acrylic - imagine having a few of these as lamps in your home!
17. "SHOOTING THROUGH" Simon Rathlou NSW
- a tram that you can actually step into! Up there with my favourite. Iconic symbolic nostalgic - just Bondi all over!
18. "MELENCOLIA" Simon Hodgson NSW
19. "M.171001" Toshio Iezumi JAPAN
20. "CIRCLE - ON THE EARTH" Testudo Yamasaki JAPAN
21. "BIRD GEOMETRY # 1, 2 & 3" Anthony Battaglia NSW
22. "THAT SINKING FEELING" Dominique Sutton ENGLAND/NSW
23. " RESONANCE II" Andrew Rogers VIC
24. " SCENT OF HUMAN" Kyung Jin Cha SOUTH KOREA
25. "BRONZE AGE" Orest Keywan xx CZECH REPUBLIC/NSW
26. "FOCI" Karl Meyer NSW - one of my favourites.
Reminds me of "Stargate".
27. " THE LAST CHARGE" Harrie Fasher NSW
28. " PHYLI" Paul Selwood x NSW
29. " WELDING IRON SCULPTURE" Naidee Changmoh THAILAND
30. " INDIVISIBLE" Matthew Harding VIC
31. " INTERLACE (2003)" Albert Paley USA
32. " AT LAST" Song Jianshu CHINA
33. " WING GROWER (2009)" Hanna Hoyne GERMANY/ACT
34. " PARAPHRASE ON THE TIN DRUM" Keld Moseholm x DENMARK
35. "LITTORAL ECHO" Sonya Payes VIC
36. "DIVESTMENTS 4" Tony Davis WA
37. "LOCUS OF TIME 17- 2" Takeshi Tanabe JAPAN
38. " THE YEARNING" Linda Bowden ZIMBABWE/NSW
39. " DIVERGENT" Johannes Pannekoek WA
40. "WALKING WOMAN" Peter Lundberg USA
41. "ORB" David Ball NSW
42. "Y NOT" Sasha Reid AUSTRALIA/NZ
43. " THE HONEY TRAP" Ken Unsworth AM NSW
44. " GREEN LIFE" Milan Kuzica SLOVAKIA/CZECH REPUBLIC
45. " INCONVENIENCE STORE" Marina Debris USA/NSW
46. "ELEMENT 0" Lubomir Mikle SLOVAKIA
47. " TRINITY" Morgan Jones ENGLAND/NZ
48. " ENVIRONMENT III" Marcus Tatton x NZ/TAS
49. " UNTITLED (CRASH)" Thomas Lindvig DENMARK
50. " REVERB" S.A. Adair ACT
51. " THE SOUND OF SPACE - THE PHYSICAL RING II" Wataru Hamasaka JAPAN
52. " PLATES" Ko Yamazaki JAPAN
53. " GLACIER" Michael Le Grand x ACT
54. " EMBRACE" Haruyuki Uchida JAPAN
55. "ROSE OF JERICHO, ANASTACIA, RESURRECTION" Sally Stoneman WA
56. "TENANTS" Barbara Licha POLAND/NSW
57. "TRANSPORTER" Dale Miles NSW
58. "MOTHERLOVE" Abigail Ozora Simpson ENGLAND/NSW
59. " TRANSFIGURING RING - MOBIUS XXVIII" Mitsuo Takeuchi x JAPAN
60. "MR. A" Zero Higashida JAPAN
61. "DELPHI" Ron Robertson - Swann OAM NSW
62. "SUNNY MOON (2008)" Zadok Ben - David ISRAEL/ENGLAND
63. " EDIFICE, EDIFY" R.M (Ron) Gomboc x WA
64. "WIND REFLECTIONS" Rhiannon West ENGLAND
If you like Ross Manning (see my blog of this artist @ Carriageworks), you will like this sculpture. It is my favourite - also see my brief Youtube video uploaded.
65. " FLOATING FIGURE (2014)" Greg Johns SA
66. "ARE WE THERE YET?" Jane Gillings x NSW
Another one of my favourites.
67. " AQUA: GOLD OF THE FUTURE.....?" Sally Kidall ENGLAND/NSW
68. " ZYGOMATICS" Wesley Harrop SA
69. " UNDER ONE SKY" StephenMarr NSW
Another one of my favourites
70. "STRUCTANGLE" Angelika Summa GERMANY
71. "PHANTOM VESSEL II" Virginia King NZ
72. " MOLLY AND CHARLES" Stephen Harrison ACT
73. " IN THE GRAIN OF SAND" Andrea Vinkovic SERBIA/WA
74. " LES ST HILL AND THE TIN CANOE" John Blay, Amanda Stuart & Jane Ulman NSW
75." FRAGMENTS" Tim MacFarlane Reid WA
76. " POT PLANT" Marcel Cousins VIC
One of my favourites.
77. " LANNA LANDCRAFT" Mark Swartz NSW
78. " GEOGRAPHY" Fiona Kemp NSW
79. "I PUT A MOO ON THE TABLE, BUT IT HAS A HOLE AND IT IS LACKING" Yoshio Nitta JAPAN
80. "TRIP I, TRIP II, TRIP III" April Pine ENGLAND/WA
3 trips? I only saw 2 - Did I miss one? - still one of my favourites.
81. "KLONDIKE" Karl Chilcott SWEDEN
82. "GROUNDED" Charlie Trivers x NSW
83. "SLOW FLOW TOWARDS NARCISSISM" Hugh McLachlan TAS
84. "SONG OF THE AISORS" Jock Clutterbuck VIC
85. "PLASTIC PARADISE" Kathy Allam WA
My work collegues liked this sculpture - apparently made from plastic bottles the sculpture "wobbled"when touched.
86. "RISE & FALL" Small Ocean Collaboration With Jeremy Sheehan NSW & PACIFIC ISLANDS
87. " PIECE OF MIND" Kathy Holowko VIC
88. "BLUE CYLINDER REVOLUTION" Masayuki Sugiyama JAPAN
89. "A PLACE OF HOPE" Samantha Stephenson NSW
90. "SUN LIGHT NO. 3" Cui Yi CHINA
91. "OUSHI ZOKEI 2017" Keizo Ushio x JAPAN
92. "EXISTENCE (JUST A LOOP IN TIME)" Jorg Plickat GERMANY
93. "CURIOUS DREAM OF AN ARCHITECT" Faith Semiz TURKEY/VIC
94. "DUEL KNIT" Hans - Christian Geleff DENMARK/ENGLAND
95. "AUTUMN MOON IN THE SKY" Chen Wenling CHINA
96. " THE SKELETON WOMAN'S SPIDERNET" Isabela Lleo Castells SPAIN
97. "ULAN" Paul Bacon NSW
98. "THE BIG FISH EATS THE LITTLE ONE" Evi Savvaidi GREECE
99. "STATIS III" Aliesha Mafrici WA
100. "TEMPLE" Isobel Lord & Sophie Lanigan NSW
101. "
SWIRLING SURROUND" B Jane Cowie AUSTRALIA/SINGAPORE
102. "LOOKOUT FOR ME" Linton Meagher NSW
103. "OCEAN LACE (2015)" Britt Mikkelson WA
104. "WHITE WASH" Tango Conway & Amelia Skelton NSW
So many photos to upload! Very short Youtube video of my favourite sculpture has been uploaded.
