(Bondi)
is a collaboration between
High Tide
Tsukasa Nakahara
art, nature and community.
An endless stream of all types of people
views, talks, walks
along a divine stretch of coastline.
Great Southern Noongar
Janine McAullay Bott
Some sculptures
consciously collaborate
with the elements.
They change dramatically
over the days.
Rise and Fall
Small Ocean Collaboration with Jeremy Sheehan
This figure perches
high on the cliff with its friends. It is made from sand; designed to weather, flop and crumble.
Some sculptures are witty.
Inconvenience Store
(signs outside the door of entire constructed shop displaying items retrieved from the sea as if they are for sale)
Marina Debris
Inconvenience Store
Marina Debris
Santa Hats found washed up on the shore ‘for sale’ in the shop, with Bah Humbug label
Some are pretty.
Swirling Surround
B. Jane Cowie
Wind Reflections
Rhiannon West
Some have indoor counterparts
in theMark’s Park
‘Sculpture Inside’ gallery.
Piece of Mind
Kathy Holowko
(made of recycled plastics to remind us that we are part of the planet’s ecological cycles)
Collective Thinking
indoor version
Kathy Holowko
Some sculptures are
spontaneous,
living,
temporary
installations
made of flesh and blood.
Spontaneous Sister-and-Niece Sunlit Sculpture
Some sculptures
are even more spontaneous
and even more fleeting,
but no less extraordinary
for being unphotographed.
What do I mean by this?
WHALES.
A pod of whales frolicked, splashed, sprayed, heaved and breached close enough to the shore to be seen and loved even by Late-Middle-Aged eyes. This was unexpected magnificence – a true collaboration between heart, art, nature, place and time.
In case you’ve never seen the splendid sight, here are some pix…
Images of whales breaching.
Sculpture by the Sea living breathing outdoor (and some indoor) free art gallery is OPEN until Sunday 5th November. Here’s the link to Sculpture by the Sea Facebook Page.
Art and Soul Space 
I am not sure which amuses me most; the Inconvenience Store or the Spontaneous Sister-and- Niece Sunlit sculpture. The latter was a great interaction with the sculptures. I really must remember to schedule an Oct/Nov trip to Sydney one year. I have seen so many wonderful photos of the Sculpture by the Sea events over the years but I’ve not yet seen the event in person. Wow to the whales.
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Yes – it is well worth doing the sculpture walk. It’s a beautiful area of coastline. Hilly. You have to be fairly able-bodied, that’s the only thing. One year I went with a Melbourne friend who was captivated by the view and couldn’t focus on the sculptures at all.
WHALES! I felt lucky.
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Hmmm….sounds like I need to improve my walking fitness!
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Oh don’t let me put you off. You can go slowly. You can pause a lot. You can just visit one section of the walk and see plenty. There are a heaps of sculptures in Mark’s Park alone. I s’pose I was just thinking about how wonderfully accessible the whole thing is, then realised that actually, if you have serious mobility issues, it’s not so easy.
It was actually refreshing for me, realising I’d momentarily forgotten about nursing homes, walking frames and wheelchairs. And that I’m lucky enough to be able to forget about these challenges. Does that make sense?
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Absolutely makes sense.
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