The Board of the artsCape Biennial sculpture exhibition has announced that the planned event for 2012 will not proceed.
 
Chairman, Robert Bleakley, said: “The difficulty of raising sponsorship in the current financial environment and the lack of public funding has made it impossible to mount this world class event.  
 
“It is a great shame that we have been forced to make this decision given the success of artsCape Biennial in 2010 and the considerable pleasure artsCape gave to thousands of local Byron Shire residents and visitors from further afield. It has been a tremendous asset to our community.
 
“The Board would like to express its gratitude to the many artists, patrons, volunteers and businesses that have supported artsCape and, in particular, to the co-curators Merran Morrison and Rebecca Townsend whose tireless efforts, passion and curatorial brilliance created such a wonderful event for our town.”
 
There are no current plans to stage artsCape in the future.