Victoria’s Lorne foreshore is playing host to dozens of large-scale Australian sculptures this month,including a Stonehenge made of fridges and a wooden bench astronomical enough for Ben-Hur. Curator Julie Collins says many of this year’s sculptors – such as Bronek Kozka, with his haunting prison island Offshore Processing – bear positioned themselves as social commentators, and tackling issues including climate change,politics, cultural diversity and human rights. Picking up the $25000 Sculpture Trail award is the local artist Jenny Crompton for Sea Country Spirits. Inspired by the sea, and land and sky of the biennale setting,as well as her Wadawurrung ancestry, she says the work channels ‘the continuous rhythms that the land has been echoing for thousands and thousands of years’• Lorne Sculpture Biennale is at the Lorne foreshore until 3 AprilContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com