Recently, Sculpture by the Sea returns to the Bondi Beach to Tamarama Beach coastal walk. The coastal walk was transformed into a 2km long temporary sculpture park featuring over 100 sculptures by artists from Australia and across the world.
Alessandra Rossi is one of the artists who had their work exhibited on the beach. She was born in Friuli in northern Italy in 1968, but spent most of her formative years in Venice, in the company of a vibrant international artistic community.
Titled Untitled (coral), Rossi says the piece depicting a solitary young girl in a dress is inspired in part by the phenomenon of coral bleaching, something that occurs in nature when ocean water becomes too warm and coral begins to expel an algae giving it a white appearance.
The sculpture’s translucent layered appearance changes dramatically when viewed from different angles during the day and at times almost vanishes against the horizon of Bondi beach.
