Sculpture by the Sea 2024: giant melanoma on Sydney beach to deliver ‘message that will be hard to ignore’

Sculpture often divides opinion but it's rare for a work to carry the claim it may save lives

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Sculpture has a knack of provoking debate. The medium's ability to divide viewers on the aesthetics of a work - and often its cost to the public purse - can make sculpture a polarising subject. But it's rare for a work to claim it may save lives.

Working in the field of advertising, Sydney creative Andrew Hankin is not above hyperbole. But his team's entry into this year's Sculpture by the Sea could very well save a life or lives, as visitors to Tamarama gaze down in horror/awe/morbid fascination at a gargantuan sculpture resembling a melanoma.

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