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STEPHEN BEVISThe West Australian Peppermint Grove artist Kathy Allam is the major winner in the Castaways beachside sculpture exhibition, winning the $5000 Alcoa Award for sculpture with an

aluminium component for Navigator, below, a metal tower made from recycled cylinders. The judges called it a marriage of simplicity and possibility which managed to evoke architectural ideas

such as temples and pagodas. Richard Hammer's Bicycle Boogie won second prize. "I'm still digesting the wonderful news," Allam said of the $5000 prize. She thanked her

"art-slave" husband Mike Jones for his encouragement and muscle power in assembling the work. "The high standard of the exhibition was impressive, so winning this award has

been quite overwhelming," she said. Now in its fourth year, the City of Rockingham's annual Castaways event challenges artists to reuse old materials and provoke new ways of

thinking about recycling. Nearly 50 works are in show at Palm Beach until Sunday. Melbourne-based artist Lauren Berkowitz will be a key speaker at the free Castaways forum, Sculpture with a

Conscience, which runs from 9.30am to 1.45pm tomorrow at the Gary Holland Community Centre in Kent Street, Rockingham. GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM THEWEST.COM.AU IN YOUR INBOX. Sign up for our

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