1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 2: Sometimes when something amazing is in your own city, it's 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 2: easy to overlook it. For example, if you live at 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 2: Niagara Falls, you probably close the cafe curtains and go, oh, 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 2: there's all that spume again. 6 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I liken too working with you like that, 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: like living next door to Niagara Falls. 8 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 3: So there may days when you look at the majesty 9 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 3: site that you're seeing each day, and other times you 10 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 3: just shut. 11 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: The curtains because you don't want the spume going all avia. 12 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: What were you dressed in a barrel and a rainslicker? 13 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: This makes me think of sculptures by the sea. We 14 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 2: are so lucky to have this in our city. It's 15 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 2: the world's largest free outdoor sculpture exhibition. It's on for 16 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: the next eighteen days and it's a two kilometer coastal 17 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 2: walk from Bonday to Tamarama around the other way, and 18 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: it's been going since nineteen ninety seven. They're expecting four 19 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand people to do it. It's become 20 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: this world famous walk. 21 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: And they got the melted ice cream truck. I love that. 22 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 2: See that all these things are amazing sculptures there. 23 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: That I've ever seen it. I've never done. 24 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 2: Haven't you ever done it? 25 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: Well, the last few years done it by accident. 26 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 2: Well, the last few years I haven't done it. But 27 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 2: as I said, my brother's coming to Sydney with his 28 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 2: wife to see Paul McCartney, and so I think we 29 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 2: might go and do this on the weekend. And I've 30 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 2: my uncle has made these fiberglass zebras that were in 31 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 2: Sculptures by the Sea a few years ago, and I've 32 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 2: got one of those zebras in my backyard. 33 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: You've seen my zebra, Yeah, a lot of people. I 34 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 1: tell people that you nicked it from Sculpture by the Sea. Oh, 35 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: why would you do that? It's funny just the idea 36 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: of you running down the road. 37 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 2: With it life size zebray well next to my Ronald 38 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 2: McDonald McDonald and flight center man. Well, the sculpture that 39 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 2: won this year would be a very hard one to steal. 40 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 2: And I'm thrilled that this prize has been won by 41 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 2: a friend of mine. His name is John Petree. He's 42 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 2: a sculptor and he has been entering this competition since 43 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 2: the year it began, and this year he's won the 44 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 2: big prize and twenty five years after first entering the 45 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 2: competition and his sculpture. Have a look at it, isn't. 46 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: It beautiful statue? 47 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: What he does is he goes into nature and sources 48 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 2: these big rocks, and the fox just kind of talked 49 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 2: to him, and he tries to work out the shapes 50 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 2: and things and what he's feeling about them. This one 51 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 2: is extraordinary. It's called twenty three point five degrees. It's 52 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 2: two and a half meters high. It's an abstract stone work. 53 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 2: It says HiT's made from two huge pieces of basalt 54 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 2: that he sourced in the Brinda Bella range. John's quoite. 55 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 2: I love this quote. This is very John. He said, well, 56 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 2: I had this idea of that angle. It popped into 57 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 2: my head and I thought that's a good idea. I 58 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 2: did the drawing, I wrote twenty three point five degrees 59 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: on it and submitted it, and then when I was accepted, 60 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: I thought, oh shit, now I've got to make it. 61 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: He said. 62 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 2: It took me six months and a lot of stress. 63 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 2: I had to select the stone and decided it was 64 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 2: too big or too little to arrange to get it 65 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 2: from the mountains, and how to arrange it. But he 66 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 2: said this award means these monumental boulders from Australia, the 67 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: oldest continent on Earth, are found a place in sculpture. 68 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 2: Art is a serious business. Speaks of optimism and possibility. 69 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: It shows confidence in the world. And it's a beautiful, 70 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 2: beautiful piece. But this will be amongst hundreds of other 71 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 2: pieces of sculptures, some whimsical, some hilarious, some huge, some 72 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 2: tiny that are nestled along the walkway, some hidden little rocks, 73 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: some along the foreshore. It's a fantastic thing that's in 74 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 2: our own. 75 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 1: It could be confusing. 76 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 3: You just see a McDonald's wrapper and you go, oh, 77 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 3: let's just rubbish, pickup. 78 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: Excuse me, that's my work. What are you doing? 79 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 2: Those syringes have taken me weeks to create. 80 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 3: I dare say that would be a lot heavier than 81 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 3: one of your fine with last zebras to that. 82 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to try my best. 83 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: I see you with a bunch of UNI students running 84 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: down the road with it. 85 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 2: Amen. Sculptures by the Sea is on over the next 86 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 2: eighteen days. It's amazing to 87 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: Try and get there, Try and get there.