Rounded

 

Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe 2017

Sorry I don’t know the artist.

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Inside Australia

Just after dawn

The sculptures glow

in the early sun.

We walk

tracing lines

from figure to figure

in the waterless lake.

 

Lake Ballard, a salt lake in Western Australia’s Goldfields, is home to 51 metal figures sculpted by Antony Gormley. He’s perhaps most famous for The Angel of the North, a steel sculpture 20 metres high with a 54 metre wingspan, located in Gateshead in the North East of England.

http://www.antonygormley.com/projects/item-view/id/248

http://lakeballard.com/

The Angel of the North

http://lakeballard.com/about/antony-gormley-and-inside-australia/

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Sunbathers

 

Framed

    Sea    sky    sand   sunbathers   ship  and   seagull

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, Western Australia

Keizo Ushio, Oushi Zokei Gate to the Beach, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2016.

http://sculpturebythesea.com/

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Eye Spy a Sculpture

Earlier this year when in Montreux I walked along the shores of Lake Geneva under the threatening snow filled clouds.

 

Apart for its fame for hosting many festivals, the most notable being the Jazz Festival, it also has the Freddie Mercury statue and other pieces of art, including this cool dude.

 

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Sunsets and Sculptures by the Sea

 

On a warm summer evening I feel so privileged to be able to wander down to my local beach and see Sculpture by the Sea, in one of three places that hosts this international exhibition.

For a few weeks, the beach and foreshore of Cottesloe is a mass of people mingling with each other, swimming and eating picnics amidst a large diverse collection of sculptures.

Cottesloe, Western Australia, has hosted this annual exhibition for the last eleven years and it certainly appears to fulfill the dream of the founders in providing a major free artistic event that encourages a sense of community. The ephemeral nature of the exhibition adds to its popularity.

 

Only a few kilometers away in Fremantle, another Sculpture event on Bathers Beach exhibits West Australian artists.

Made of salt this sculpture is truly ephemeral as it is gradually eroded by the Indian Ocean.

As the sun drops the surreal qualities of some of the exhibits add to their beauty.

 

As darkness falls the sculptures are momentarily silhouetted, then gone.

 

Details of the exhibits and artists can be found on these website:

http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/exhibitions/cottesloe.aspx

http://www.sculptureatbathers.com/

 

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