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Speaker 1: I think the weather conditions are pretty perfect this weekend

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Speaker 1: for Sculpture at Bathers. It kicks off on Friday until

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Speaker 1: April twenty first in Fremantle. For all the information, you

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Speaker 1: can visit Sculpture at Bathers dot com. Dot are you

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Speaker 1: and the artistic director of Sandra Murray joining us now,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Sandra.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome, Good thank you, guys, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Obviously more popular than ever before this year because of

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Speaker 1: losing Sculpture by the Sea. I mean people like their

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Speaker 1: fix of sculptures on the beach.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, certainly, yes, yes. And down at Frio it's

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Speaker 2: got a really cruisy, friendly atmosphere, so we're looking forward

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Speaker 2: to everyone coming down and enjoying the open air gallery

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Speaker 2: over fifty sculptures outdoors. And also in Shipwrecks Museum, which

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Speaker 2: is part of the WA Museum, we have a fantastic

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Speaker 2: indoor exhibition of small scale works.

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Speaker 3: Has the planning and all the bumping and all that

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Speaker 3: I've seen the social media this week, Santa has been going.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's always very hectic, but it's an exciting time.

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Speaker 2: It's very methodically planned and we are so overjoyed to

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Speaker 2: actually see the works arrive and get installed after many,

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Speaker 2: many months and sometimes years of being planned and in

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Speaker 2: the making by the sculptors.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be the most hectic bump in

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Speaker 1: of anything outside the Metallica cots that may be next

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Speaker 1: to whatever it's on. So, Sandra, is the exhibition free?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, Yeah, that's the core of what we do,

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Speaker 2: free for everyone. Free tours. You can book online at

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Speaker 2: our website and grab a coffee, grab an ice cream, babe,

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Speaker 2: this beach house. Yeah. Also the Easter weekend we coincide

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Speaker 2: with the City of Frio's International Street Arts Festival, so

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Speaker 2: there's heaps to do down there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah for people. People do have to plan when Frio

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Speaker 3: is busy. Having moved down there recently, in Frio is busy,

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Speaker 3: you have to plan how you get jo from southeast.

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Speaker 3: It's all good, but you do have to be I

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Speaker 3: have to be wits about you plan the way to

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Speaker 3: get in and get out and all the rest of it.

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Speaker 3: But Sandra, the vibe is so good when it's going off,

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Speaker 3: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It sure is down there. Yeah, Yeah, there's nothing like it.

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Speaker 2: And with that Indian notion and the sunset, the backdrop

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Speaker 2: is just sublime.

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Speaker 1: I think we have the best place for the whole sculpture,

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Speaker 1: you know, on the beach idea of anywhere, because of

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Speaker 1: those sunsets and everything. How does an artist get their

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Speaker 1: work selected at Sandra.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a process. It's a selection process, and they apply,

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Speaker 2: there's a form, and they've got to think carefully, you know,

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Speaker 2: what they put in and images and biography a statement,

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Speaker 2: and then there's a panel of professionals including curators and

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Speaker 2: artists who assess them. And roughly over one hundred works

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Speaker 2: this time and about fifty five selected. So it's a

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Speaker 2: tough process and to get in is a real honor

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Speaker 2: for the artists and a real boost for their career

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Speaker 2: and their profile.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite piece this year that we

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Speaker 1: should all be making sure we're looking out for.

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Speaker 2: I think there's quite a lot I love, but a

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Speaker 2: few eye popping ones. There's an amazing one outside Bathers

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Speaker 2: Beach House and it's the old Jetty Jill paint Neromine

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Speaker 2: works mainly with clochetes with bright colored yarns, threads and strings,

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Speaker 2: and it's like an underwater world with jellyfish and she

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Speaker 2: likens it to swim in with a snorkel. On dry

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Speaker 2: land because you can walk under the jetty and it's

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Speaker 2: just a fantastic immersive experience. Ryan Kant has a very

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Speaker 2: joyful work which references the cranes at the port in

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Speaker 2: Frio on the beach, but they're like little mini cranes

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Speaker 2: and they touch like giraffes or die dinosaurs. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: yeah yeah. There's an extraordinary work based on an old

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Speaker 2: car body by Richard Aitken, which is on the boardwalk

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Speaker 2: between Cadogo and Bab's Beach House, and that's already since

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Speaker 2: it's been installed, people are stopping and doing the photo

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Speaker 2: shoot with it. They love it.

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Speaker 1: You had me at Maccrome Jellyfish. That sounds amazing.

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Speaker 3: For any awards or anything being handed out, or is

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Speaker 3: it just reward enough for the artists have been chosen

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Speaker 3: to be displayed.

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Speaker 2: We're a very democratic exhibition. We don't give prizes as such,

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Speaker 2: but at the end we have an important one. It's

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Speaker 2: the Artist Peer Awards, so all the artists in the

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Speaker 2: exhibition get to choose the artists it's great, most worthy,

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Speaker 2: and we also as an organization offer a mentorship award

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Speaker 2: which includes mentoring time with myself and one of the

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Speaker 2: senior sculptors.

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Speaker 1: All right, do we need to know anything about opening

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Speaker 1: times and so on?

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Speaker 2: Is it? Oh? Well, being down at the beach, it's

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Speaker 2: really twenty for our outact. What is good to know

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Speaker 2: is we have night lighting, so that's from six thirty

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Speaker 2: till ten thirty every night. Yeah, so come on down

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Speaker 2: in the evening as well. It's a very lovely atmosphere then.

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Speaker 2: But the actual Shipwrecks Museum is open nine point thirty

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Speaker 2: till five daily and free admission there as well. Well.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like two trips because I want to see

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Speaker 1: it in the day and also I want to see

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Speaker 1: it what it's like at night as.

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Speaker 3: Well, and you duck around the corner, get some fish

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Speaker 3: and chips or whatever you want to.

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Speaker 2: Be Yeah, sure, sure it's c. Sorellos. And we also

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Speaker 2: have a satellite show this time at Old Customs House

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Speaker 2: in Phillamore Street, which is two of our artists. So

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Speaker 2: that's where Art Source has its home.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, parking at your place is going to

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Speaker 1: be at a premium Clay Sandra, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. Sculpture at Baby is on Friday until

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Speaker 1: April the twenty first. For all the information Just head

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Speaker 1: Onto sculpture at bathis dot com dot au