The Sydney Beach Sculpture Festival was established in 1997 and is held annually. The 12th Sydney Beach Sculpture Festival was held near the famous Bondi Beach in Australia, a total of 107 works from all over the world were exhibited, all of which were placed on both sides of the 2-kilometer-long coastal road. Someone is basking in the sun on the beach, someone is playing beach volleyball Start walking towards the sculpture exhibition Heads it is makes us think of the coin toss game "Heads or Tails". It looks like it has been tossed and has landed on its head by chance. Walk around the sculpture and see how it manages to balance on a point. Is this an illusion or really balancing? What kind of balance is in nature and why did the artist choose a rose? Follow the long metal pipe. It has been carefully cut and bent and put together. Stop at the circles of metal (spheres). The sculputre is like playing a game or walking along a track. The sculpture was caved 7 pieces of oak tree. Then it was cast with the metal bronze. Look at the shapes that have been to used make this totem-like column. Which shapes are geometric? How does it balance? The artist has opposite shapes to make two figures standing side by side. They look like they are caught in a big sea wind which is pushing and pilling their bodies, dancing to nature. People walk slowly along the bay I didn't understand what was written on the sign on the side of the road? How interesting! I guess the signs are by artists. They are meant to make you stop & think. This sculpture looks a new plant growing in the rocks. Look closer and see that sculpture is made from discarded of wooden furniture. What does this tell us about humans and nature? Can you see the traces of the artist in this sculpture? Imagine how her hands worked to make the multiples of delicate clay sculptures. This sculpture is arranged to look like soft falling seaweed or vines. The marble was carved by hand. The artist has you can almost hear the marble breathing. The artist has many ordinary everday cake tins to create an "assemblage". The from is elegant and industrial, and contrasts with how we would use a cake tin at home. Metal is heavyand difficult to make into shapes. Here, the artisthas worked with bronze to show that it can look light and floating like a wing that can fly. A traveller stands unbalanced at crossroads. Where do you think he has come from? Where do you think he is going? Placed in the air and moving with the wind, these motorbikes have become something else. They are like a tree or like seaweed caught up in a wave in the sea. What shapes have been used to make this sculpture? It tells the story of the rising and setting each day. The sun gives the rhythm of day and right by which we all live. A folly is a building made just for decoration in a garden or park, often made to look like another thing. Here two pyramid shapes made with Jarrah wood are placed close to each other. Move around the sculpture and see what happens to the at the work while standing straight in front of it? Two long metal shapes look soft and curling as if they are about to hug. Balanced next to each other they look like reflections in a mirror. This sculpture makes the world look pixelated like on a computer screen. The light changes what we see reflected so everything around us looks diferent. Does it remind you of a disco ball? There are 57 blocks of different and shapes next to each other inside a ring that make this circle. The round shape is created by a process called "shrink fitting". The ring is heated up and metal expands, then pieces are tapped in and locked in place as the ring cools. The ocean is made up of billions of drops of water, just as our waste builds little by little to monumental piles. Rubbish collected from Sydney beaches is shaped around a frame into a water droplet, like tiny pieces of plastic building up in the ocean. These figures are free, happy and flying high in Australia where the artist now lives. The artist was also thinking about a childhood memory of flying kites in Iraq. The six-foot man is caught in the middle of a fall. He is made from clay that has been fired in a big factory kiln. What would happen if he fell? The sculpture is like flowing water, suddenly stopped by an object that has been built to change the way the water is moving. Sometimes the water floods over a weir. We can see ourselves if we look at something shiny, called a reflection, or when we see our shape as shadow. This sculpture shows a person seeing themselves reflected in what could be both mirror and shadow. This figure has imaginative energy that has come out of the landscape. What kind of place do you think this creature belongs, and what kinds of sounds would it make? The Colossus was a famous statue of sun-god that stood in Greece a long time ago. The artist is thinking about human history. Is the Colossus tired? The artist created this work by discovering new angles-folding flat steel into 3D shapes. How does solid steel contrast with the liquid ocean. What does the shap remind you of? The sculpture looks like a tree trunk made from brass. It is in the shape of the country China, and the name hints of when people once thought that the earth was flat. People have shared lives and worked with horses for hundreds of years. This horse stands on the edge of the headland overlooking the ocean, and looks it needs protecting. Count the see-through rods lined up inside the metal box . They seem to get smaller because the floor where they stand is part of a triangle. The light reflects through the water inside the rods. Count the geometric shapes that are used to make this sculpture. This robot-like object could be something from the future that then became old and rusted. The left-over sandstone from fixing and rebuilding old historic in NSW has been used by the artist to make what looks an old city now in ruins from a long time ago. The figure is made of rust coloured metal to look like rocks. It makes us think of a weather-beaten, stony landscape found in some parts of Australia. Describe the shapes in the sculpture. How are they connected and balanced? Can find shapes along the coastal walk that look similar to the ones in the sculpture? As global warming threatens Earth, we could instead be making a beautiful garden. Cherries remind us that fruit is a gift of nature-each one holding a whole world of creation. The figures all look separated, but are connected at the same time. The artist is showing us how social distancing affects us by connecting the space between the figures.