Every year the town of Bermagui plays host to one of the highlights of the NSW far south coast arts Calendar with Sculpture on the Edge. 2015 was no exception with the 9^th annual festival being held from February 28 to March 9.

The event takes in exhibitions of large sculptural pieces in the magnificent settings of Endeavour Point Headland, Dickinson Park, and Horseshoe Bay beach, and an indoor exhibition of smaller works in the Bermagui Community Centre.

At the launch of the exhibition a wide variety of prestigious acquisitive awards, residencies and people’s choice prizes are awarded including the ANU School of Art Sculpture Workshop Residency Prize. This year the prize went to Tanja based sculptor Yuri Wiedenhofer for his work Black Square. The work was a large platform made from chunks of wood that was set on fire to create a mesmerising spectacle at Sculpture on the Edge’s Fire Festival that closes the sculpture event.

Wiedenhofer is known for these impressive displays of fire sculptures and will undertake a residency in the Sculpture Workshop later this year.

Other artists in the exhibition included former Head of Ceramics Alan Watt, last year’s winners of the ANU Residency Award and long-time supporters of the School of Art: Suzie Bleach and Andy Townsend, Ben Eyles and Jen Mallinson who have both undertaken residencies in the Sculpture Workshop.

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