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Speaker 1: Sculpture by the Sea is back where it belongs, literally

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Speaker 1: at Cottislow Beach. Starts on Friday. It runs until March

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Speaker 1: the twenty third. For all the information, head to Sculpture

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Speaker 1: by the Sea dot com. Right now and right now,

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Speaker 1: David Handley, the founder of Sculpture by the Sea, is

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Speaker 1: with us. Good morning, David.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back over Ah, thank you Russell.

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Speaker 1: When we spoke a year ago.

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Speaker 2: Got to say I'm with you on that one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. When we spoke a here ago, it was of

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Speaker 1: our devastation that the exhibition had been canceled due to

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Speaker 1: federal funding issues. So what's happened between then and hour

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Speaker 1: to get it back up and happening?

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Speaker 2: Well, Albert came to the party. Ralbot've heard everyone, He

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Speaker 2: saw what was going on and he made sure that

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Speaker 2: we got a significant amount of federal funding. We still

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Speaker 2: had WA money to confirm, which the Wa government did,

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Speaker 2: which was great. Yeah, a lotchy. We has increased its support,

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Speaker 2: our co has come back on and everyone come to

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Speaker 2: the party and now the party's put on for everyone

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Speaker 2: else starting from this Friday.

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Speaker 3: So the whole band realized what they were possibly losing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really fantastic and I've got to say

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Speaker 2: that phone call that came through from Albos people was

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Speaker 2: one of the best of my life.

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Speaker 1: I bet. But I mean as you said, it'd be

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Speaker 1: mad because two hundred and thirty five thousand visitors, it's

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Speaker 1: generated four point five million dollars for the local economy

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. It would be crazy not to continue.

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Speaker 1: It just wouldn't make sense.

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Speaker 2: Just last night, I was doing my groceries after flying

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Speaker 2: into Perth, not into a Japanese artist. He brought a

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Speaker 2: friend over from Japan, gave an email friends coming over

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Speaker 2: from New Zealand. They're just the people I know. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a fantastic thing that everyone puts on together. But

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Speaker 2: it wouldn't be like this had the people of Perth

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Speaker 2: not become basically their own performance artwork. But the way

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Speaker 2: they wander around the dolptures at sunset each evening. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: talking of sunsets. This year, the Tourism WA invited Aboriginal

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Speaker 2: artist Karla Hart's putting on a performance artwork at sunset

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Speaker 2: this Sunday, the eighth of March and also the last

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Speaker 2: Sunday the exhibition twenty third of March. At around about

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Speaker 2: six o'clock both times six fifteen this week this Sunday

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Speaker 2: and five fifty next Sunday, because of course we're losing

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Speaker 2: daylight as the exhibition progresses.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so because it is such a great look. It's

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Speaker 3: just a it's a tourist postcard for nationally and around

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Speaker 3: the world. There are seventy artworks on the beach by

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Speaker 3: the sea this year, thirty five west to strone and

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Speaker 3: how many internationals stacks. It's in the double digits, right, yeah, oh.

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Speaker 2: More than there's double digits just from Japan. We've got

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Speaker 2: a new showcase. We've got five art arts from India,

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Speaker 2: including Sawad Kirka who's doing a performance artwork on Coddoslow

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Speaker 2: Beach this this Saturday. And that one's going to be filmed.

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Speaker 2: That one's more to be a filmed work and so

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Speaker 2: there's going to be screens up near the Cotdoslow Surf

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Speaker 2: Life Saving Club where people can see it when it's

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Speaker 2: not on the beach. And that's going to go around

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Speaker 2: all around the world. And we've got four artists from Denmark.

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Speaker 2: I think they'd seen an earlier draft of Frederic and

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Speaker 2: Mary King I should say Frederic and Queen Mary's visit

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Speaker 2: to Australia and thought that Perth was on the list,

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Speaker 2: so that didn't happen. But we've got the four Danish

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Speaker 2: artists anyway.

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Speaker 1: I think some of my favorite sculptures over the years

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Speaker 1: have been some of those from Japan. They're amazing, but

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Speaker 1: everyone is incredible. What are your standouts this year, David.

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Speaker 2: Ah, There's a work by Anton Lord from Local Guy,

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Speaker 2: which I'm really curious to see. It's a giant cube

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Speaker 2: of thin reed like columns and I'm just really curious

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Speaker 2: to see what that's like. I'm really looking forward to

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Speaker 2: Karla Hart's performance. As I stand here now, I can

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Speaker 2: already see one of the kids' favorites to Giant Dog

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Speaker 2: sort of playfully boxing off each other under the pine

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Speaker 2: trees at Cutter Slow. And I'm really looking forward to

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Speaker 2: some what Kirker's work. We got one hundred people volunteering

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Speaker 2: to be part of this performance and just seeing what

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Speaker 2: he comes up with the light and the shadows, the

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Speaker 2: sand and the Indian ocean behind him.

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Speaker 3: What a setting. Well we are well and truly looking

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Speaker 3: forward to every I mean, what a stage, What an

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Speaker 3: amazing stage for an event.

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Speaker 1: Like they say, the world is a stage and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't come any better than Cudterslow Beach.

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Speaker 2: The natural ampisuit is what really helps as well, because

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Speaker 2: you're looking down onto the sculptures, You've got that sinse

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Speaker 2: of perspective and when you're on the vic able to

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Speaker 2: look back up at them and that that view out

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Speaker 2: into the never Never Land over the Indian Ocean, and

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Speaker 2: so the installations happening behind me, you're probably saying, to

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Speaker 2: hear some of that noise, I'm trying to we like

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Speaker 2: that well.

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Speaker 1: As you said, I guess we need to on one hand,

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Speaker 1: thank Anthony Albinizi for this coming back this year, but

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Speaker 1: also for your service, David Tireless leave fighting for our

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Speaker 1: sculpture by the Sea. We thank you. We can't wait

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Speaker 1: for another month of and you know you talk about

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Speaker 1: the light changing at the end of every day. That

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Speaker 1: puts a different slant on the sculptures every single day.

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Speaker 3: It does.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, look forward to it, David, absolutely, thankes.

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Speaker 3: Luck You're welcome, David. We're looking forward to it. And

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Speaker 3: well done to the people of Wa two for stomping

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Speaker 3: their feet and making a bit of a scene to

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Speaker 3: make sure that we got that back to just let

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Speaker 3: everybody know how if.

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Speaker 1: You don't ask, you don't get, as they

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Speaker 3: We asked, and we got