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Liz Hobday

Dumped a ute? It's been turned into sand art at Mona

Sand constructions of mattresses, utes and old tyres are displayed at the Museum of Old and New Art. (HANDOUT/Museum of Old and New Art)

Who dumped that old ute? Or the couch and the mattress? Whoever the culprits are, they can visit the Museum of Old and New Art, where their discarded junk has inspired an artwork made from sand.

Mona's latest commission, by French artist and director Théo Mercier, is a sand sculpture so impressively big it suggests an entire landscape - one strewn with sculptures of actual debris that the artist found on his travels in Tasmania.

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