As you drive through the city or the countryside has an unusual sculpture ever caught your eye?
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From beachside to roadside, and in privately owned gardens, sculptures are increasingly popular as appreciation for outdoor art grows and towns profit from the tourist dollar.
And the sky is the limit when it comes to the price.
"You can buy a sculpture at your local art show for $200 or you can spend $2 million on a piece of public art, sometimes they are $5 million," says architectural sculptor David Ball, based in the New South Wales Southern Highlands.
In , Ball won first place at Sculpture by the Sea, Australia's largest annual exhibition of its kind, held in Sydney and Perth, which has been running for nearly three decades.
"Sculpture by the Sea has done wonders for sculpture, they've educated the public hugely as to what sculpture is all about," Ball says.
Last year Ball curated a sculpture festival in NSW's Kangaroo Valley.
"We had a really good show in spring last year, that worked really well, and we are trying to grow that show."
And for anyone who isn't sure what to make of sculptures, Ball says to approach the art form with an open mind.
He says art is a language, and like any language the more you acquaint yourself with it, the more you are going to get from it.
Ball says the difference between the pricing of sculptures is the artist's experience.
"Some artists will increase in value, most probably won't, so you really have to be buying [it] for what it can do for you in your lifetime."
He says the price of a sculpture depends upon many factors including the material costs and time spent constructing it.
"If you make something out of plastic bags and string then it's less expensive."
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Feyona van Stom, vice-president of Australian non-profit The Sculptors Society, says for bigger sculptures, transport is a consideration.
"The smaller ones probably sell more quickly but people who are looking for a really dramatic piece, they'll spend a lot of money on that.
"A lot of sculptors at the society do make commissions but now there are more and more outdoor exhibitions and people go to see them and end up falling in love with something and bring it home, or get it sent home."
Ms van Stom says sculptures haven't always been so popular.
"There are more and more exhibitions where you can go and buy outdoor sculptures, and for sculptors that's amazing.
"Towns have discovered it's a nice place for people to come and have a look, see the work, buy work and enjoy the town."
Beth Crawford from Berkeley, NSW, takes part in sculpture festivals across the countryside.
Her dinosaur eggs sell for $1,200 each.
"People are quite happy with that because they know it will stay in the garden forever," the sculptor said.
"They say, 'It's a talking piece in my garden', which makes me happy as well."
It's a slow process making the ceramic eggs, which are hand-painted and fired twice in the kiln.
Dombarton resident Immanuel Creagh purchased three eggs in a nest as a birthday gift for his wife and says the addition to his family's garden has brought a lot of joy.
"Every time we come in, we see it and when we are sitting outside, we look across and enjoy it," he says.
"When people arrive, they clearly enjoy it, in particular the grandkids who love it.
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