Ben Apfelbaum

SCULPTURE BY THE SEA : NOW IN ITS 21ST YEAR

The 21st ‘Coming Of Age’ annual Sculpture By The Sea has welcomed work from 104 sculptors from 15 countries around the world. Since its inception, 1272 sculptors have exhibited on the Bondi-Tamarama coastal walk. One of the sculptors, Orest Keywan, has exhibited every year since 1998.

At the launch of this year’s Sculpture By The Sea on Thursday 19th October at Marks Park a number of awards were handed out. The Aqualan Sculpture Award worth $60,000 was won by David Ball of Bowral for his sculpture Orb.  Helen  Lempriere’s   scholarships of $30,000 were presented to Hame Fasher of Oberon, Julie Gough of Hobart and Ron Robertson-Swann of Sydney.

The Transfield Australian Invited Artist Program of $15,000 each went to James Dive of New South Wales and Ken Unsworth AM also from New South Wales.

The Aqualand Sculpture Award was presented by Alex Adams of Aqualand and the Helen Lempriere Scholarships were handed out by Scott Hawker from Perpetual.

As well as the outdoor sculptures miniature maquettes of all the works can be viewed in a large cupboard marque, particularly handy should the weather turn inclement.

SCULPTURE BY THE SEA runs until the 5th November.

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Featured image – Sculpture By The Sea’s prize winning entry Orb  with sculptor David Ball and Sculpture By The Sea founder David Handley. Pics by Ben Apfelbaum.

 

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.