Set off on an adventure to discover Frankston City’s sculptures!
Published on 16 December 2022
North West Ward Cr Kris Bolam said five new sculptures have been installed throughout the City thanks to Council’s partnership with the Sculpture by the Sea organisation.
“The new pieces complement our expanding public arts and build on Frankston City’s vibrant arts and culture.
“Council’s investment in the arts encourages community connection, wellbeing and pride of place, and our murals, sculptures and arts events have become a celebrated part of Frankston’s identity.
“Discover sculptures dotted throughout the city, in parks and gardens and along the coastline which complete the City’s sophisticated blend of urban, coastal and contemporary arts and cultural experiences,” Cr Bolam said.
The new pieces include:
Figurative Abstraction by Norton Flavel at the Pines Forest Aquatic Centre, Forest Drive, Frankston North.
Flavel studied at Edith Cowan University, School of Visual Art, WA. He has exhibited work both nationally and internationally.
Flavel received considerable media attention for ‘Bulk Carrier’ at Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe 2014 and received the WA Sculpture Award at Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe in 2015 for ‘Lucky Country’, which was purchased by the Town of Cottesloe Collection.
He has also exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015 - 2016 for which he received the prestigious Helen Lempriere Scholarship and has exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe five times since 2014. In 2016 - 2020 he exhibited artwork in the Granite Island Sculpture trail SA and in May 2022 his artwork And Another was included as part of the Snowy Valley Sculpture trail NSW.
Marsh Boat by Ayad Alqaragholli at the intersection of Cranbourne Road and Baxter St.
Ayad was born and raised in Ur, South Iraq. His interest in the human form was forged early, influenced by ancient figures, symbols of humanity that he saw drawn and carved on cave walls and obelisks of his homeland.
Before migrating to Australia in 2005, he had established his career as an artist in the Middle East. He has continued to travel nationally and internationally to exhibit his signature elongated copper and silicon bronze human forms since establishing a new life for himself and his family in Perth. His work has received numerous awards, and is held in museums and corporate and private collections.
His beautiful sculptural forms document the everyday and express his love of humanity, peace, beauty and freedom.
Metamorphosis – Two Spirals by Tetsuro Yamasaki at the Frankston Library Forecourt, Playne Street, Frankston.
Tetsuro Yamasaki was born in Nagasaki in 1958. He studied sculpture at Tokyo’s Zokei University, graduating in 1986, and started producing sculpted works as well as teaching the next generation of artists in Tokyo. He has won multiple sculpture competitions, is represented in major collections including Nihon-Kokka-En and Asago Sculpture Park and has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including The National Art Centre, Tokyo 2007-12, UBE International Sculpture Biennale 2009, Art Centre of Tokyo 2012 and Kajima Sculpture Competition Tokyo 2016. Since 2014, the artist and has been exhibiting regularly in Australia at Sculpture by the Sea.
Yamasaki produces abstract metal sculptures which he twists and inverts with perceived ease, producing mysterious space between the surfaces. As he creates he imagines man's surprise and excitement at discovering iron.
As One by R.M. (Ron) Gomboc at the intersection of Seaford Rd and Brunel Rd, Seaford.
Gomboc is an award-winning sculptor from Western Australia who has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Europe and Asia since 1973.
He was selected to design and make the Australian Film Industries AACTA Award in 2011 and has been creating them over the past decade. He is represented in public and private collections across the world and in Australia, including War Museum Canberra, Town of Cottesloe, Fortescue Metals Group, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University. Most recently the Snowy River Sculpture Trail. He has exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, 19 times since 1999 and Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, 18 times since 2005.
Gomboc was a Bendat Family Foundation WA Invited Artist at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2020, is a member of the Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi and Cottesloe Decade Clubs and was awarded the major Balnaves Artist’s Award at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2007.
Vertical Wave by Hikaru Yumura at Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre, 16N Cranbourne Rd, Frankston.
Born in Japan, Yumura received a BA Fine Art (Sculpture) from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1971 and then went on to study sculpture at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1972.
He resides in Tokyo, and has had a prestigious career exhibiting extensively predominantly in Japan and internationally in Australia, Amsterdam, France and India. He has been the recipient of numerous important awards for his sculpture and his work is represented in public collections including the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
Yumura’s work is borne from his closeness and connection with nature. He begins his work by having a dialogue with the natural granite stone he selects to carve and polish. The artist has an interest in the notions of the organic and the inorganic and in his work we can identify solidity and fluidity working rhythmically at once. He produces abstracted geometric forms, however they are very expressive in their non-representational appearance.
For more information please visit https://www.discoverfrankston.com/things-to-do/sculptures and for details regarding Sculpture by the Sea and their upcoming exhibitions, visit https://sculpturebythesea.com/.
Council also hosts award winning street art walking tours for anyone who would like to explore Frankston’s murals and hear the stories behind the artist and their work. Click here for more information.