Bondi, Tamarama Beaches and Sculpture by the Sea
Shared by Agnes Reynes Williams
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N.S.W. Australia
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Sculpture by the Sea is Australia's largest annual outdoor free to the public exhibition of contemporary sculpture staged along Sydney's spectacular Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk. Each year the exhibition, which attracts over 300,000 visitors, exhibits approximately 100 works by artists from Australia and overseas.

Many of these exhibits have for their integral parts the sandstone coastal walk, about two kilometers between Bondi and Tamarama beaches. So one will see a display of a mass of seemingly haphazardly scattered stones, painted blue, on a number of which have been lettered with darker paint, words: blue, peace, etc; There are exhibits which need the backdrop of the ocean seen through their spaces to make their impact; trees draped or dressed in whimsical ways. A great number of exhibits feature recycled materials, certainly a lot of ingenuity and sense of fun.

To see samples of these sculptures, please visit http://www.sculpturebythesea.com. It is one of those inspiring stories of an individual's altruistic idea, serendipity, great community spirit, artistic people, locale and a snowball effect perhaps?