Sculpture by the Sea 2024: from the elegant to the malignant – in pictures

Sculpture by the Sea 2024, will be running from 18 October to 4 November along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk

Transfiguration ‘LINK’ XL by Mitsuo Takeuchi. ‘I have been pursuing a theme, transfiguration, which is a change of forms and shape.’

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The Spot, by A Cook, A Hankin and M Aberline. ‘The start of summer ushers in the in the unofficial start of skin cancer season. To raise awareness for this issue, we have created an art work that changes in size, shape and colour just like a dangerous melanoma.’

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Shape of Water by Haruyuki Uchida. ‘I have created a swaying pillar of water.’

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SYD Airport by Dr Jon Tarry and Navigating the Winds (2019) by Lucius Lu.

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Visitors inspect O, by Soren Lyngso Knudsen.

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Chris Wilson’s Smoko Seat, which ‘celebrates trade ingenuity’.

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Uh Oh, by Dr Richard Tipping. ‘Can we press “restart” on reality to make a better world? What can art do?’ asks the artist.

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Shelter by Niharika Hukka, ‘an expression of coral, a living maze of colour, a saltwater galaxy providing life’.

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Catches Love by collaborators Akiho and Tata Ota, known as Akiho Tata, who are ‘deeply concerned about the many wars and disasters happening now’.

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Pipeline 3 by Stephen King: ‘Because the centre of each column is hollow, light reflects off the surface in a way I didn’t expect.’

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Toasted by Sahara Novotna explores ‘skin cancer, sun damage and climate change’.

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Ichwan Noor’s Blue Moon reflects an ‘interest in the combination of the man-made and the organic’.

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Passages by Urs-P Twellman, on display as part of this year’s Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi.

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Naught: Bondi by Milarky, glimpsed at dawn.

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