Cottesloe Beach
Wide crescent of white sand with a rocky groyne, turquoise shallows and one of the city's most watched sunsets.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cottesloe Beach in Perth follows David Handley, the Sydney art entrepreneur who tried to bring his free outdoor sculpture show to this exact sand in the late nineteen nineties. It traces what happened when a local mayor turned him away, and how a law firm's offer years later reopened Perth as an option. Along the way it touches Handley's original inspiration, a sculpture park in Bohemia. Stand near the groyne and look along the shoreline while you listen.
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