White Buddah Koi pond
Photo — yuliatettamanti, Flickr
Sculptures highlighted by uplifting locations of lakes, rivers and the ocean.
Being a Year of Water Rabbit, which is recognized as one of the most powerful combinations in the Chinese Zodiac, I am continuing my focus on the creative fluidity that is enlivened by the presence of the embracing water element with a collection of sculptures presented in various water enviroments.
Also a 5 minute video of a journey into a exremely remote location in the Kimderley region of North West Australia featuring pure spring waters.
‘ Free of troubles’ – Georg Scheele Marble Sculptures
‘Dianna The Huntress’ — Anna Hyatt Huntington.
Koichi Ishino – ‘In the Grey of Daybreak’
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019
Dragon at Bagillt Beacon site, UK
‘Elephant Rock’ (natural formation) – Iceland
Maroi relief art
Lake Taupō, New Zealand
‘Leviatano’ – Michael-Shewmaker
2014
Paul Jackson — The Sea Series
‘Playtime’ Tom Cannon
A sea pup playing fetch, showing off a sculptural bunch of kelp
Jurien Bay, Australia, 2019
Vase in stacked slate — James Parker Sculpture
Graceful flowing sculpture by Pompeo Marchesi
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
‘The Giant’ — beach of Fegina, Italy
It is a 1910 sculpture in armed cement and iron, created by Arrigo Minerbi of Ferrara and the engineer Levacher
Bruldsjurk by the Kunstenaars collectief — ‘Patchwork’
Steve Bicknell sculpture at coast of East Sooke Regional Park, British Columbia, Canada
(composite insertion)
Andrew Rogers — ‘Weightless’
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022
Tania Spencer, ‘Inspired by Rosie’,
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2018
Aphrodite riding a dolphin over the sea
Terracotta sculpture
The River aka The Floozie in the Jacuzzi
Victoria Square, Birmingham
April Pine – ‘Tidal’ (aka ‘You don’t say’)
Photo Jessica Wyld
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021
Australian Marine Observatory by Baca Architects will resemble a whale emerging from water
Mary On Mission — Wanner Sculpture Studio
Masayuki Sugiyama — ‘Sight Walk On The Moon’
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021
Photo Richard Watson
Matt Sloane, Aus.
Matthew Tyrrell — Rippon vineyard sculpture
Nuliajuk is a goddess who lives in the sea and controls sea mammals seals, walruses, and sea lions.
Michael Sibel, ‘Star Man’
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2020
Moai sculpture pair
‘Fountain of Neptune’ — Bologna
Björn Ekegren face sculpture — Yugu Lake, Yunnan
Boaz Vaadia — ‘Ma’aseyahu’
Point Leo Sculpture Park, Victoria
Jason de Caires Taylor France architecture installations sculpture
Cannes Underwater Museum
Carving face from cement with a grinder – Jason de Caires Taylor
Cannes Underwater Museum
Cape Gamoda beach sculpture
Carl Milles — ‘Jonah’
Chee Kiong Yeo – Monumental sculpture – ‘Triumph’
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2022
Chen Wenling, ‘Autumn Moon in the Sky’
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2017
Chris Booth — ‘Laminae’
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021
Cui Yi, ‘Time After Time No. 2′
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2019
Himalayan sculpture, Mount Everest in background
Frangulyan Georgy, Dante Virgil, Isola San Michele, Fondementa Nuova statue – Venezia
Herbert Flugelman — ‘Making Waves’
‘Innversion Sphere’ – Bondi
Isabela Lleo Castells, ‘Working in the Clouds’,
Cottesloe WA 2022
‘La Péri’ by Gustave Moreau, 1878
Orisha Oya Goddess of Wind
Yoruba African Statue Sculpture Bronze Finish
Wilfried Fitzenreiter sculpture 1988 on the River Spree, Berlin
Lucy Barker, ‘Chrysalis’
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2021
Ghora Katora Lake near Rajgir Magadha, India
Owl Moon
photo Sarah McNulty
Peter Mandl– ‘Charites’
Philip Jackson — ‘Glass Slipper’
Philip Jackson’s ‘Garden Skittles with Scarlatti’
Pohutukawa tree, NZ and Tiki statue
Pond(er) at NGV International, Henry Moore sculpture
Primavera, 2008 by Orazio Barbagallo
Richard Robinson photo – emerging shark
‘Origins’ by Simon Gudgeon,
Sculpture by the Lakes, Pallington, Dorchester, Dorset
Capalbio Garavicchio — Il Giardino dei Tarocchi — Niki Saint Phalle
Sculpture by lake photo — Helen Gallimoret
Sculpture in the Peggy Guggenheim Venice collection — Alexander Calder
A seal making his way back to the beach at Blairgowie after a misadventure at the nearby shopping strip.
A disorientated Seal pup found on a farm in South Australia 3km from the ocean.
‘Water Cloud’ — Stuart Green
Donated by Nick Wright at Dorrigo, NSW. Controversialy rejected by some of the locals.
‘Rain in Mountains’ — Oleh Lesiuk
Santa Monica bronze sculpture by Linda Brunker using elements collected from the ocean.
Shaping Spirit Driftwood Sculptures by Debra Bernier
‘Sphere’ by Michael Snape
Stephen Page — ‘Paun’
2021
Studio view ceramic elliptical form
Talland Bay Hotel sculpture
The Castle by the Sea — photo Emily Soto
‘The Infinity Ring’ — Charles Sherman
Order of Importance, by Leandro Erlich
The Reefline OMA Miami Beach public sculpture park
Dezeen
This bronze sculpture named ‘Floating Figure’ was sculpted in 1927 by Gaston Lachaise and cast in 1979 by the Modern Art Foundry,NY
Canberra, Aus
Tony Cragg sculpture
Tung Min Hu — ‘Ark’
Vintage glass art sailing yatch
Villa Visconti statue
Stephen Marr — ‘Thinking It Up’
Cottesloe 2020
Vlase Nikoleski — ‘Flooded Weir’
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022
‘Water of Life’ Cathedral Sculpture — Broadbent Studio
Wenceslas Square (Vaclavske Namesti) Franciscan Garden sculpture
Yoshio Nitta — ‘ I Put a Moon on the Table, But it Has a Hole and is Lacking’
Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Obliques’ (Walk In) 1968 installed beside Aristide Maillol’s ‘Action in Chains’
Hakone Open Air Museum, 1970
Japan
Sacred Healing Springs Journey with Ernie Dingo – Remote Aussie Kimberley
SBS series ‘Going Places With Ernie Dingo’
Any references to ‘Saltwater Mob’, ‘Giant Lizards’, ‘Snapping Handbags’ and ‘Big Lockjaws’ are the local Indigenous Australian , slang description of the Aussie crocodile.
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3 Comments
You always present a fascinating collection of intrigueing images ,Robbie. Thank you
Breathtakingly beautiful!!
amazing work of creativity. Can I see these in person in Venice.