{"id":628714,"date":"2026-09-18T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628714\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:30:08","slug":"a-sea-of-hands-a-giant-lifesaver-saurus-and-a-melting-robot-queenslands-swell-sculpture-festival-2026-in-pictures-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628714\/","title":{"rendered":"A sea of hands, a giant \u2018lifesaver-saurus\u2019 and a melting robot: Queensland\u2019s SWELL sculpture festival 2026 \u2013 in pictures | Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beach becomes a giant art gallery each year as SWELL sculpture festival takes over Currumbin in Queensland\u2019s south-east. Almost 100 large-scale artworks are on display during the free, 10-day outdoor exhibition, now in its 24th year. Among the artists is invited guest Patricia Piccinini, whose bronze sculpture Salute to the Sun \u2018is a chimera, seamlessly moving between deer, tree, fungus, human and motorcycle\u2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swellsculpture.com.au\/\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The works are on display until Sunday 20 September<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The beach becomes a giant art gallery each year as SWELL sculpture festival takes over Currumbin in Queensland\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-628714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}