Artist who picks up marine debris picks up mayoral prize

By Helen Pitt
Updated October 23 2017 - 8:14am, first published 8:08am
SMH. 22nd Of October 2017. Marina De Bris has made an artwork called  "inconvenience store" which is part of Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi. The artwork is made from all the garbage that Marina has found by sea. Story: Helen Pitt. Photo: DOminic Lorrimer
SMH. 22nd Of October 2017. Marina De Bris has made an artwork called "inconvenience store" which is part of Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi. The artwork is made from all the garbage that Marina has found by sea. Story: Helen Pitt. Photo: DOminic Lorrimer

At first when visitors come to Marks Park at Bondi to see this year's Sculptures by the Sea exhibition, they wander into an art installation called an "Inconvenience Store" thinking it is a store front. It doesn't take long before they realise everything inside is made from garbage that has been washed up on Bronte, Tamarama and Coogee beaches and refashioned into "art with a message", according to its maker.

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