Sustainable aluminium is the theme in Castaways Sculpture Awards 2016

This year’s Castaways Sculpture Awards that takes place at Rockingham foreshore is coming up with some interesting entries from the point of view of material, theme and design. Local artist Carol Clitheroe has based her entries for this year with the theme REFLECTED memories.

The last year’s winner Clitheroe used aluminium to compile three figures, representing past, present and future. The artist presents an illustration of childhood memories through the sculptures.

The Castaways awards started in 2008 and since then it had been growing manifold to become what it is today. The competition encourages the use of sustainable and recycled material. Clitheroe used a number of empty aluminium cans to create her artwork.



“I just love it because you have to use recycled components, which makes it a bit more interesting and you get to use different materials,” Clitheroe said.

“I had to find a lot of aluminium cans to cover both sides of the silhouettes… I like the shiny surface reflecting on memories,” she added.

Interestingly, about 38 sculptures will be on display in the exhibition from October 22 to 30, based on an aluminium theme.  The material offered superb flexibility to the artists to work on the design and theme. The exhibition entries range from small to very large installation and pieces representing various literary interpretations and poetic and fun.

The Mayor of Rockingham Barry Sammels said that this year’s awards offered another wonderful opportunity to bring the foreshore alive with sculptures, while also highlighting the importance of recycling and environmental awareness.

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“The event highlights the City’s strong commitment to recycling and its growing reputation as a centre of cultural activity,” he said.

The show will display one large installation which is a huge four-metre aluminium can, created from joining hundreds of aluminium cans that conceals a printmaking studio.

Another creative and exclusive work displays strings of aluminium cans that actually illustrate a lullaby, with the alphabets hole-punched and engraved into the cans, which get illuminated in the evening with the help of LED lights installed therein.

Even visitors could join the fun in the exhibition by attaching colourful tags to Message on a two-metre high bottle made from fencing wire. The fun work is commissioned by the City of Rockingham in collaboration with artist Greg Gelmi.