Nearly half a million people are expected to attend this year's Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney over the next two weeks. Artists from 16 different countries are featured in the popular outdoor exhibition.
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00:00Featuring everything from the beautiful to the bizarre, the 26th instalment of Sculpture
00:06by the Sea is officially open.
00:08It is open to everyone, like it's open to poor people, rich people, different ethnicities,
00:14gay, straight, it doesn't matter, like it's anyone, everyone is welcome.
00:18Bring your dog.
00:19This year's exhibition features a hundred artworks, nearly half of which come from overseas.
00:23Many have seized the opportunity to send a message.
00:26It's also here to raise awareness of the inaccessibility of the coastal path.
00:31It would be nice if Waverley Council could upgrade the coastal walk to be wheelchair
00:35accessible.
00:36It emulates melanoma and it changes over the course of the show in size and shape and colour,
00:42much like a melanoma or a sun spot.
00:45While others have made an immediate impact.
00:46I ran into a guy who works for Sculpture by the Sea at a cafe that I go to and I heckled
00:52him essentially and said to him, hey what about putting a line in the middle of the
00:55path and he said, well why don't you do that?
00:58For plenty of artists, the exhibition provides a valuable platform.
01:02It's huge, for me it's the difference between making art and not making art is having this
01:05kind of funding.
01:06But this year, the exhibition is going without federal funding.
01:10This time last year, every Australian artist in this exhibition received four and a half
01:14thousand dollars of support, this year it's three thousand dollars.
01:18The exhibition will remain open until the first week of November.