David Handley

Popular Perth arts exhibition has been cancelled for 2025 after the federal government's peak arts body Creative Australia confirmed it would not renew funding.

The annual exhibition has been a feature of the local arts scene for 20 years, attracting thousands of tourists to Perth.

Western Australian artist Johannes Pannekoek has won the $30,000 Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill Sculpture Award, kicking off the 20th year of Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe

Sculpture by the Sea has collaborated with Tourism WA to launch a new Aboriginal Artistic Program, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the free outdoor art exhibition launched today.

Western Australian artist Jarrod Taylor has won the $10,000 Western Australian Sculptor Scholarship to kick off the 2021 Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Cottesloe Beach.

Cottesloe Beach will become an open-air art gallery in March, after Tourism WA extended Sculpture by the Sea’s funding for the next three years.

The annual Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Cottesloe has been thrown a financial lifeline by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting.

SCULPTURE by the Sea has opened for its ninth year at Cottesloe Beach this week, and for the first time visitors will be asked to donate a gold coin to keep the free event viable.