The block was frozen around a bronze skeleton in Britain before being sent to Australia where it was lifted by crane into Customs House Square.Never heard of him.
Renowned English sculptor Mark Coreth...
... who usually works with bronze, says he got the inspiration for the sculpture during his stay with the native Inuit in northern Canada.And assuming, rather uncritically, that the guy was right rather than mad, uninformed, wrong or just buttering up some poncy artist by telling him the sort of thing he wants to hear, it seems that Coreth believes contributing further to the problem with the associated emissions involved in shipping ten tonnes of ice to Sydney for a fucking publicity stunt is going to help in some way. I mean Christ, did you bring enough drugs for everybody, Mark? No? Then please put them away.*
"I'd been carving polar bears in the side of icebergs," he said.
"The Inuit guide I had said, 'Great, you've seen a polar bear, you've sculpted a polar bear, but how on earth are you going to go about sculpting the real issue we have here?' - the warming Arctic."
Whatever next, Family First promoting sexual abstinence with a fucking for virginity campaign?
* And when you come back down please tell us who paid for this. I shall be pissed off if, as I fully expect, it was the Australian taxpayer.