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Supported by
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Lions Club
Brunswick Mullumbimby Inc.
Event and Competion Details:
The Elements
Artwork in Six Categories
1. Watercolour & Gouache
2. Printmaking, Drawing
& Pastels
3. Oil & Acrylic
4. Mixed Media
5. Sculpture
6. Photographic
& Digital Art
In each category:
1st PRIZE $500
2nd PRIZE $200
And One ONLY
Viewers Choice
Prize value of $300
Life's Surprises
OPENING NIGHT:
7pm
Fri 26th Aug, 2011
with preview and
presentation of prizes
OPEN FOR VIEWING:
Fri 26th to Sun 28th August
Between 10am and 4pm
VENUE:
Ocean Shores Public School,
Shara Blvd,
Ocean Shores
page updated:
Fri 09/09/2011 13:05:03.15

Read about the Expo:
Byron Shire News
The Echo

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Some of the 2011 Expo Team





Winners 2011
First & Second Place

Mixed Media
First
Ellysa Brennan
Plastic Geranium
Second
Turiya Bruce
Is it such a ...........!
Oil/Acrylic
First
Cheryl Bailey
An Ethereal World
Second
Lois Baldwin
Alone
Photography & Digital Art
First
Jules Hunt
Symphony #2
Second
Aqua (Ohrdio)
One in a million
Printmaking, Drawing & Pastels
First
Colleen Darosa
Symphony #2
Second
Katka Adams
Moonlight serenade
Sculpture
First
Michelle Eabry
Nobody not even the rain has such small hands. ee cummings
Second
Kim Tait
Labour of Love
Watercolour & Gouache
First
Cate Cormack
Floating
Second
Roslyn Harris
Magnolia Magic

Viewers Choice.
11226 Faith Avidor Merging into One
Sculpture


We also have many Highly Commended:

11231 Lyn Kirby Magic garden
Mixed Media Technically brilliant. Contemporary revisiting of 19th centrury 'passtime'. Previously functional/ converted to new context.
11188 Kim Bolitho I Love You too
Mixed Media Highly competent handling of difficult material. Archetypal image.
11013 Christine Starzynski Automate I
Oil & Acrylic Jolts me to attention - menacing dreamlike - flowing competency.
11079 Melanie Delaney Two Pink Lines
Oil & Acrylic Technically accomplished - emblematic of Northern Rivers.
11105 Mitchell Kelly Kangaroo #1
Oil & Acrylic Confronting - challenging use of colour and composition.
11169 Seabastion Toast Cindy Lauper as a Pony
Oil & Acrylic Great surface - confident handling - witty.
11204 Cliff Russell Fluid Dynamics
Photography & Digital Art Capturing motion and representing a freedom in fluid action through a single image. Colour, focus and composition work well to record a memorable moment.
11108 David Roupell Farewell Floyd
Photography & Digital Art Submitted works by David Roupell - Distinctive use of elements such as shape, colour, focus and even mirrored text to represent in a compact area to issues of broad (even global) impact.
11190 David Roupell Treasure Planet
Photography & Digital Art Submitted works by David Roupell - Distinctive use of elements such as shape, colour, focus and even mirrored text to represent in a compact area to issues of broad (even global) impact.
11078 Kate Maguire Golden Pathway
Photography & Digital Art Light is used to create colour unusual to the day - the silhouettes and calmness of the water create and extend a tranquility of presence and anticipation of things to come.
11198 Belinda Sochacki GOMA
Printmaking, Drawing & Pastels Arresting image - great handling of media.
11175 Rachael Hegh Beautiful Carnivore
Printmaking, Drawing & Pastels Utilises medium very well to convey essence of image of 'deadliness of attraction'.
11016 Maria Paterson Watching the Water
Printmaking, Drawing & Pastels Charming - competent.
11223 Jacquelina Wiils And then there were tree
Sculpture These works (all highly commended sculptures) all exhibit a truth to material. They are well made, professionally finished and they all make us think. Well done.
11176 Rachael Hegh Birdgirl
Sculpture These works (all highly commended sculptures) all exhibit a truth to material. They are well made, professionally finished and they all make us think. Well done.
11008 Rod Johnston Sandstone Fish
Sculpture These works (all highly commended sculptures) all exhibit a truth to material. They are well made, professionally finished and they all make us think. Well done.
11184 Dale Spence Parting Gesture
Watercolour & Gouache Intuitive handling of media. Playful but edgy.
11014 Ester Poyas On the Vine
Watercolour & Gouache Work with a high level of competency in a field where virtuosity is demanded.
11137 Grace Taylor A New Friend
Watercolour & Gouache Engaging viewer - drawn into private world - confident/assertive.



Primary Children’s Art Competition Results:
Kindergarten: 1st Place Mira Michels Coorabel Public School
2nd Place Sophie Nozdrina Ocean Shores Public School
Highly Commended Hinata Kuramoto Coorabel Public School
Highly Commended Layla Williams Ocean Shores Public School
Highly Commended Manon Pouget Wilsons Creek Public School
Year 1 1st Place Matilda Thornton Ocean Shores Public School
2nd Place Arlin Leszczynski Mullumbimby Public School
Highly Commended Chloe Delaney Ocean Shores Public School
Highly Commended Hugo McCallum Ocean Shores Public School
Year 2 1st Place Jules Tait Wilsons Creek Public School
2nd Place Quinn Strickland Crabbes Creek Public School
Highly Commended Frankie Jackson Coorabel Public School
Highly Commended Imogen Mansted Home Schooling
Highly Commended Kane Missett Ocean Shores Public School
Special Commendation: Connor Callaghan Mullumbimby Public School
Special Commendation: Sky Davis Mullumbimby Public School
Year 3 1st Place Jemma Smith Ocean Shores Public School
2nd Place Ella Rain Hardinge-Francis Coorabel Public School
Highly Commended Brahminy Porter Crabbes Creek Public School
Highly Commended Riffkan Cole Brunswick Heads Public School
Year 4 1st Place Luke Grenfell Mullumbimby Public School
2nd Place Matthew Wareing Coorabell Public School
Highly Commended Grace Austin Mullumbimby Public School
Highly Commended Lexi Pilgrim Crabbes Creek Public School
Year 5 1st Place Finn Wheatley Wilsons Creek Public School
2nd Place Jessica Gooch Ocean Shores Public School
Highly Commended Ginger Lillis Crabbes Creek Public School
Highly Commended Riley Donnelly Mullumbimby Public School
Highly Commended Talizyn Little Oak Wilsons Creek Public School
Year 6 1st Place Ellie Svikis Ocean Shores Public School
2nd Place Luke Haroon Ocean Shores Public School
Highly Commended Nina Chandler Mullumbimby Public School
Highly Commended Rosie Geoghegan Wilsons Creek Public School
Special Encouragement Award: Kamala Matuschek-Mansfield and
Obeliah Spreckly Dreyer
Main Arm Upper Public School
Special Encouragement Award: Harvey Lee and
Luella Fitzgererald
The Pocket Public School


Secondary Competition Prizewinners:
Water Colour/Gouache 1st Place Zoe Kervin Byron bay High School
Highly Commended Bella Sidoti-Raizenberg Byron bay High School
Oil/Acrylic 1st Place Daisy Buckthorpe Mullumbimby High School
Highly Commended Sam King Byron bay High School
Mixed Media 1st Place Ruby Kamoora Byron bay High School
Highly Commended Alyssa Garnett Home Schooling
Highly Commended April Evans Byron bay High School
Highly Commended Eva Jane Sands Cook Byron bay High School
Print making/Drawing/ Pastels 1st Place Julia Vanderbyl Mullumbimby High School
Highly Commended Lucy Waddell Byron bay High School
Highly Commended Cai Leplaw Mullumbimby High School
Photography & Digital Art 1st Place Flynn Cowan Mullumbimby High School
Highly Commended Lachlan Bailey Mullumbimby High School
Sculpture 1st Place Teelo Norris Turier Mullumbimby High School
Highly Commended Sienna Dillon Mullumbimby High School

CLICK HERE - The 2011 Art work Catalogue.

Friday night opening with prize presentaion

Thank you to all the artist supporting our show again this year with a giant number of 233 entries. The catalogue is now available for viewing online, it is readable on your mobile phone if internet enabled.

Friday the 26 Aug at 7 pm come watch prize presentaions and mingle with the crowd wine and tasty bits available, DOOR TICKET $10.-

PARTICIPATION

The Expo Committee invites you to be part of this exciting community event, now in its 8th year. The Expo runs because a small bunch of local volunteers loves to support and build community through art, bringing people together to celebrate our special environment and shared creative spirit. And mostly it runs because of you, the artist, art lover, art purchaser, art student, school student, would-be artist, community member.... your participation makes this event our biggest creative gathering in Ocean Shores.

LIONS CLUB PEACE POSTER

The Art Expo was initially under the umbrella of the local Lions club and we are greatful that the Lions Club Brunswick/ Mullumbimby continues their involvement.
This year if registered before hand students age 11 to 13 may participate in the Lions Club International Peace Poster Contest, see details.

THE VENUE

We are again this year at our local Public School, Ocean Shores Primary in Shara Boulevard. The event is co-inciding with a weekend of Art and Craft put on by the school PnC organization together with the School Principal, Chris Hauritz. The school has a huge auditorium surrounded by vast lawns, ideal for displays, workshops and performance, an under-cover cafe, extra rooms for demonstrations, local history talks and workshops and a mini amphitheatre for audio-visual. Again this year a grant has been secured, funding local artists to share their skills through workshops over the weekend.

Cafe

Saturday and Sunday 9am - 3pm the PnC is operating a cafe serving nutritional food with hot and cold drinks.

CREATING TO THE THEME

The Expo Committee each year wants to help artists funnel their creative ideas with a theme and this year has come up with the theme for 2011: "Life's Surprises". It is our hope that this will inspire artists yet again to produce some amazing creative works. Each year we have been impressed by the many interpretations of the themes, giving voice to commentary by artists in social, political, environmental and spiritual dimensions. School students have been particularly imaginative with their insights on the themes.

DATES

The Expo 2011 is held from 26th to 28th August, Opening Party on Friday 26th, with Thursday 25th for delivery of artworks. The Entry will be available online from early May and closing date for entries will be early August, about three weeks before the Expo. All details will be posted on this website, so keep checking in.
Alternatively join our "Facebook group" where some news and updates are posted and you the artist can post comments as well.

SEE YOU HERE

We look forward to your art and your company at this years "Life's Surprises" Expo.

- The Expo Committee.

Image of guests with child in hall at 2010 expo.
Scupture and child at 2010 OS Art Expo.