The ninth exhibition has attracted about 95 sculptures and kicks off in Bermagui on Saturday.

Event manager Jan Ireland said while the numbers were average she was quite happy with them and pleased the event was continuing. 

“It’s a not-for-profit event all run by volunteers but we’ve kept going even though funding is not an easy thing, especially so this year,” Ms Ireland said. 

“We have had to back out a bit this year, there are not as many children’s workshops, but we are still providing three.” 

These will be at the Little Yuin Preschool, Bermagui Preschool and Bermagui Public School.

Sculptures will be exhibited between Endeavour Point Headland, Dickinson Park, Horseshoe Bay Beach and the Bermagui Community Hall. 

There are quite a few metal sculptures this year, as well as ceramics, glass and stone.

Ms Ireland said it was “very, very good” to see local sculptor Richard Moffatt exhibit again this year, with his piece, a comment on dyslexia titled “Is there a Dog?” 

“There will be something for everybody to be interested in and engage with,” Ms Ireland said. 

A symposium titled The Old Ways to the Imagination will be facilitated by Bundian Way project officer John Blay and Eden artists Lee Cruse and Darren Mongta, who will all speak about the connection of Koori art with culture and country. 

The artists will also be exhibiting pieces this year, with Mr Mongta’s five metre snake featuring hot poker work and Mr Cruse’s painted didgeridoo. 

The symposium will be held on March 1 at the Bermagui Library from 10am. 

Bega Valley Regional Gallery will be taking “unseen sculpture” tours on both weekends of the event.

Visitors can take part in the unseen tour via a phone app that can be downloaded from the information booth in Dickinson Park, and there will be devices there for those who do not have a mobile. 

To cap it all off, a community picnic and fire sculpture festival will be on March 8 from 5.30pm at the Endeavour Point Headland.

It will feature fire sculptures by Tanja artists as well as some made by children from previous workshops.

Everyone is invited to bring a picnic, settle in on the beautiful headland and wait until it gets dark to start the fire sculptures. 

Sculpture on the Edge runs in Bermagui until March 9.