A PORTLAND sculptor’s tribute to ageing has taken out the People’s Choice Award at the Sculpture TRAILS exhibition.

‘Creases in Time’ is Rebecca Marriott’s interpretation of, as she puts it, “beauty in time-worn surfaces, finding strength in connection”.

“What I stated to think about was the beauty that’s in aged things and in our culture we don’t look for that in people,” she said.

“We look at the superficial.”

In pieces of iron “I find the creases show the history of that piece of metal in the same way we have the memory of our life in the face”.

And the public certainly agreed with the sculpture, which was displayed during the Sculpture TRAILS exhibition in Portland Studios in Percy St.

It won the $1000 prize, sponsored by AWA Alliance Bank Portland.

Runner-up in the people’s choice voting was ‘Happy Dog’, by Ballarat-based sculptor Colin Govan, while Ms Marriott’s neighbour Bob Stone was third with ‘Chipped Gannet’.