SMH: No sculpture at Bondi? Manly, Wollombi and Mudgee offer a fix
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SMH: No sculpture at Bondi? Manly, Wollombi and Mudgee offer a fix
Article by John McDonald
Sydney Morning Herald
QStation, Manly, is hosting the first-ever Les Sculptures Refusées: A Celebration of Rejection, (until November 19). The idea of a Salon des Refusés for works rejected by Sculpture by the Sea has been around for a long time, so it’s ironic this show has appeared while the parent exhibition remains in suspended animation. It’s the brainchild of two very good, mid-career sculptors, NAS alumni and staff Simon Hodgson and NAS alum Tania McMurtry.
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Image: Simon Hodgson’s work I seem to be a Verb at the Qstation.
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