Sculpture

A sculpture design has caused a stir in a regional South Australian community, but the local council says that is the point of public art.  

Lindy Lee's sculpture Ouroboros, based on the ancient tale of the same name about a snake swallowing its own tail, is the National Gallery of Australia's largest ever investment in a single artwork.

The shark-banana sculpture simply doesn't make sense. But that's exactly what NSW artist Drew McDonald wanted to convey.

An enormous, sparkling, chirping cicada sculpture is set to return to the streets of Brisbane after two years in storage.

The farming town of Carnamah is making headlines across the globe thanks to a giant new attraction.

Known as Anchovy Flats, the salt pans between Karratha and Dampier in Western Australia's Pilbara feature some unique local art.

Under the glow of candlelight on a remote South Australian island, teenager Maud Golley taught herself to carve wood and created some of our nation's finest Australiana pieces.

Under the glow of candlelight, on a remote South Australian island, self-taught wood carver Maud Baillie created some of our nation's finest Australiana pieces.   

Works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria will tour to North America from next year, as part of The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art.

The celebrated artist — who recently delivered the $14 million Ouroboros sculpture to the National Gallery — draws on a lifetime of love, loss and spiritual enlightenment in her work.

From Kangaroo Valley to the Southern Highlands large sculptures dominate the NSW countryside signifying the human element in the landscape. Sculptor David Ball, who creates large-scale metal sculptures by hand, says it’s a competitive space.

The winners of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, worth a total of $190,000 have been announced, including prizes for an emerging artist and multimedia work.

Clementine Stoney Maconachie made her Olympic debut in the pool at the Sydney 2000 Games. More than two decades later, she's in Paris as an Olympian Artist.

Painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and music all once were Olympic categories — but the medals have been stricken from the official national medal counts.

Locals at Catherine Hill Bay have salvaged parts of a century-old timber mining jetty. Now they want to see it used in a Stonehenge-like sculpture for the town.  

A Dublin museum has taken down its wax figure of the Nothing Compares 2 U star and apologised to family and fans over its lack of likeness to the late singer.

Evelyn Froend has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which means she wakes every day in chronic pain. She needs to wear braces on many of her joints just to stop them dislocating, but her condition is not well understood by the medical system.

The Mulligan family of Maaoupe has spent 50 years building dry stone walls and sculptures from unique stone quarried on their own farm.

The sculptures were looted from the country during a period of war and unrest and their return is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors, Cambodia's culture minister says. 

She's renowned for her photography, but Australian-born, LA-based artist Polly Borland has used inspiration from the pandemic and her famous architect father to create a stunning sculptural exhibition.