Four days before Sculpture by the Sea opened to hundreds of thousands of visitors, founder David Handley was told one site was at risk of tumbling into the ocean.

The lookout from Marks Park, now cordoned off by yellow signs saying “do not enter”, was deemed unsafe by a team of independent geotechnical consultants after rockfalls in Bronte and Bondi triggered the closure of part of a walkway between the eastern suburbs beaches.

“Together with council, we agreed that, with using an abundance of caution, we wouldn’t put sculptures or have people go on to the lookout this year,” Handley said.

This, in addition to a shipment of eight sculptures from Japan that was late due to the typhoon season and a boat carrying a Slovakian sculpture catching on fire, plunged the organisation into a las

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