[Photos] The 'Sculpture by the Sea' Festival.

[moonvoice]

I've decided to put all of this in one post, which is a lot of photos. I still recommend it, because some of the sculptures are epic, and also because there's a really good sense of Perth beach culture here.



Wouldn't you like to come with me on a hot air balloon? :)






Please do not Climb on this Artwork - but touching is fine. Others had 'do not touch' (pfft, like to see the chances of that happening).





I didn't get the names of these sculptures because we didn't buy a program. But as this was Mum's favourite, I believe it was called something like 'Of Earth and Sky.' I loved it too. I should probably explain a little bit about Sculpture By The Sea. Basically, for the past two years, very expensive, large, interesting sculptures are installed on the tourist beach; Cottesloe. It's open to everyone, and all the sculptures are for sale. Prices range from say $50 for smaller exhibitions in the building, to a few hundred thousand for some of the outdoors exhibitions.





The Dragonfly.





Welcome to Cottesloe Beach





The Awesome Camels - As you can see, interacting with sculptures is not only common, but kind of expected.





Fishermen's Tears - I'm pretty sure this was the actual title, and it was one of my personal favourites. It starts right up in the dunes and then tumbles down, with beautiful teal balls of glass caught in a metal 'fisherman's net.'





Geometry and Beachgoers - For every person there for the exhibition, there were just as many people who didn't care a whit about the exhibition and continued on with their regular beachgoing.





The view on the jetty.





Nursing - One of my favourite sculptures was also one of the hardest to get a decent photo of. But there, in the hollowed out bush, is a wild grassy animal, nurturing its wild grassy offspring.





A cavalcade of blue paper boats.





OMG! - At the indoors exhibition, there were sculptures of a different nature.





Sand Shoes - The shoes are found, and then encrusted in beach sand.





Recycled jellyfish type creatures - Constructed mostly from found plastic, especially that associated with local retail stores, these colourful jellyfish creatures were cool. There were four of them.





Waiting - This is where we waited for Mum and Simon.









My Brother's Hands





On the jetty.





Also on the jetty - This was at the very end, and there were a ton of people here. But was weirdly impressive too.





Metal Seaweed - Also on the jetty, on the way back. Made of a lot of little triangles linking together.





A Wheel of Shopping Trolleys - This was already sold by the time we arrived.





Mould - This is NOT a sculpture. This is the bursts of mould underneath an awning at the place where we went to get lunch. I was quite taken with the diamond shapes.





Amberjack's - Where we got lunch after wandering around.





Up on the grass there were some creepier exhibits.





And up in the Casuarina, were corellas. They are actually pests in Western Australia even though they're native to Australia. There were a lot around the place.









It's fairly typical to be in Perth, or probably any part of Australia, and just see colourful, random parrots while you're about the place.





Easter Islanders displaced. - The last shot. I'm actually quite enamoured of the children just playing hide and seek and chasey between the sculptures.

Comments

[nachtrabe]

Those are truly epic x_x

[moonvoice]

They are! :D I loved them.

[outlineofash]

So many of those sculptures are AMAZING. Thanks for sharing photos of them!

[moonvoice]

The sculptures were awesome, and I know I missed a ton too - I mean I didn't take photos of everything, but there were over 50 giant sculptures and I must've only seen about 35.

[gone_fishing]

WOW. *boggles* THAT'S AWESOME. Thank you for sharing these pictures! XD

[moonvoice]

My pleasure! :D

[tangledaxon]

WOW. Amazing. I particularly love the grassy animal and offspring.

[moonvoice]

I loved the grassy animal. A lot of people totally missed it, because it was well hidden in the bush, despite the sign. But it was so wonderful.

[spider_fox]

I love that they let people interact with the sculptures, and display them outside for sale. It makes me a bit sad to see them stored off collecting dust in a dark corner.

[moonvoice]

I love that they're able to be interacted with as well. And people did. It's part of the charm, I think. The exhibition goes on for a month, and then it's off to their respective buyers (most of the sculptures sell), and people prepare for next year!

[white_rabbit]

Oh wow, these are SO NEAT.

I'd never thought I'd said this... but that mold is kinda adorable somehow. o_O

[moonvoice]

I loved the mould. It was making a lot of diamond shapes! :D

Ocean Amor

[perzephone]

I could live on that beach. That perfect sand, omg.

The sculptures are marvelous, too :D

Re: Ocean Amor

[moonvoice]

All of our beaches in Perth are like that. The only thing that makes Cottesloe a 'tourist beach' is the grass leading down to the sand, and the big-ass building, and the fact that several politicians have lived in Cottesloe. But you can go to *any* stretch of beach for about 5000 kilometres on the Perth coastline and you will get beaches with pearly white, powdery sand.

Yeah, there are some reasons why people love living here and call it the lucky country.

[ariestess]

How fascinating! I wish there was something like this around here to visit...

[moonvoice]

Me too! Is outdoor sculpture popular where you are? It is here. Even in Malvern Springs there's a fair bit of outdoor sculpture around the place.

[ariestess]

Kind of? There's a whole park full of it over in Seattle, and then there's the figure of SAM at the Seattle Art Museum. Then again, there are the art installations in the downtown areas: people decorating cows to put out in Portland, or pigs in Seattle, or like the decorated Mickey Mouses in Disneyland. But like what you have there? No, not really. I think we have TOO much rain to really be feasible...

[darakat]

Awesome. Is so cool you got to see it. The mold is particularly impressive though. I wish I had time to visit some of the similar things they do like this around here

[moonvoice]

I wish you had the time too.

[toeknuckles]

Wow, some of these are really super impressive! Nice photos too. 8-)

[moonvoice]

I really liked the Easter Island one, so awesome!

[silverjackal]

These were all just great. I particularly like the "Fisherman's tears" piece, followed by the wild animal nursing its' young.