Perpetual and Sculpture by the Sea have announced the 2025 Helen Lempriere Scholarships, which award a total of $90,000 to support Australian artists as part of Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2025. Designed to further artistic development through study, travel, and the purchase of important new equipment – and support inclusion in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi –, Angela Valamanesh (SA) received $35,000 as Senior Artist; Ayako Saito (NSW), $30,000 as Mid-Career Artist; and Nicholas Burridge (VIC), $25,000 as Emerging Artist.
Ayako Saito, TOMB OF ATREUS, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022
Courtesy the artist and Sculpture by the Sea
At Bondi until 3 November, Valamanesh exhibits The Last Eggs, an oversized necklace composed of different sized glazed ceramic eggs strung together and made into a pile; Saito presents a welded abstract steel sculpture; and Burridge continues his material investigation into the melting of volcanic rock basalt with Fluid Rocks.
