Sculpture by the sea III.....

This sculpture by Chen Wenling one of China's leading contemporary sculptors in bronze and painted with red automotive paint is called 'childhood - morning' and is 'in memory of the artist's childhood during the times of Mao' which explains the colour.  Again if you have time it's definitely worth a click to enlarge to see the sculptures in more detail...

The work below by Toby Bell of WA, a stone base in steel frame and cold cast aluminium sculpture called 'caliban' , and that's it, no other explanation was given, all I can say is that it is massive, and must have been quite a feat to construct.....

I was a bit taken aback by the next group, from afar they were very life like. This is a work by another Chinese sculptor Wang Shugang sculpted in painted bronze called 'meeting1', it was kind of creepy, but that changed when a few tourists decided to have some fun with it and sit in on the 'meeting' ....

I'm really not sure about these little suckers below, they were sprinkled in the rocks all along the pier. As a group they're called 'the yearning' by NSW artist Margarita Sampson, the explanation being 'Gonna git you, sucka!' I'm as much in the dark as you but they were colourful little suckers and interestingly not for sale, which is shame because if they came individually ONE sucker might have been in my price range.....!!

So I'm going to finish with an 'interesting' sight that met me as I was coming up the slope from the beach, I looked up and thought 'what the...!!' This sculpture is by Paul Kaptein from WA and is called 'and in the endless pauses, there came a sound' the artist's aim is 'to convey new possibilities for thinking the present - a remixed now proposes things as not quite truth, not quite fiction'. This one is definitely worth a closer look and not for the obvious reasons haha! it is constructed out of laminated wood and steel and is really quite a complicated piece of work....

Tomorrow I thought I'd finish off with the last few of my favorites from the exhibition and then we're done with the sculptures! It's a public holiday in Perth today and it's going to be 37C, sounds like a good day to hibernate indoors. Have a good start to the new week.....