Tag: Sculptures

Cleve Sculptures

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During our recent holiday around the Eyre Peninsula coast, one day we took a trip inland. For some reason we randomly decided to visit the small town of Cleve. We had no reason to, but we were definitely rewarded.

BONNIE- The Clydesdale
BONNIE’S Friend – The Blue Tongue Lizard

In the centre of town we found this amazing sculpture of a Clydesdale horse. As hubby and I stood admiring it, a local man stopped by for a chat. He was a very proud dad. His son, ‘Turtle’ was the creator of the masterpiece and he told us many stories about it. In short, his son is a farmer and was messing about with old tools when he created his first horse sculpture, Clyde which now permanently stand at the entrance to his property.

CLYDE – The original Clydesdale horse sculpture
CLYDE’S friend is a Frill Neck Lizard.

Turtle’s latest sculpture is a wedge-tail eagle. This sculpture is currently on a trailer as it is being tried out the front of a few local locations to see which fits best for his permanent home.

The sculptures are all made from scrap metal and engines given to him or bought cheaply at local clearance sales.

Thanks Natalie for hosting #weekendcoffeeshare and including public artworks.

V: Victoria’s Sculptures

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One of the things I loved about Victoria was its amazing sculptures. Every town seemed to have a theme some how connected to the area. Then local artists had created sculptures to blend it all together.

In some instances they have even created stunning children’s playgrounds using the same theme. a great example of this is in Cohuna. Here they have many cow sculptures as it is a dairy area. Then in the amazing children’s playground little cows are used as the seats and the play equipment. It brought a smile to my face.

K – Hello Koala Sculpture Trail

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Until December 2016, the street and building of Port Macquarie, New South Wales are peppered with large-scale koala sculptures made of fibroglass and hand painted and decorated to a theme. The artists consist of celebrities, professionals as well as local community groups. Each koala has a plaque at its base that has the sculpture’s name and artist’s details. There are 50 of them in total and they were built to help support the work of Port Macquarie’s Koala Hospital — the first of its kind in the world. I fell in love with them and photographed all I saw, about 37 I think. I hope you enjoy some of my favourites. They were so cute.

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D – Driftwood Sculptures

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I came across these amazing driftwood sculptures while driving through the countryside in North Island New Zealand. The artist appeared to work from his home which was surrounded by these beautiful creations. I remember feeling creative just looking at them.