Sculpture by the Sea is back on at Bondi next month after it secured a major corporate sponsor to fix a $200,000 funding shortfall that had left it scrambling for corporate and public donations.

NRMA Insurance is to fill the budget breach, while the organisers of the iconic Bondi to Tamarama sculpture walk also welcomed $125,000 in public donations from as far as Singapore, France and Japan.

Tony Burke preaching to the converted at the Art of Tax Reform Summit. Credit: Steven Siewert

The partnership was announced on Friday morning, a day after federal Arts Minister Tony Burke ruled out federal funding for the exhibition, saying he had been advised Sculpture by the Sea did not pay its artists.

The federal funding agency, Creative Australia, last funded Sculpture by the Sea Bondi in

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