Well it was Swell

A day at the beach but with a twist. We were visiting Currumbin on the Gold Coast and the Swell Sculpture Festival – a free event which takes place largely on the beach with sculptures, installations and art works dotting the sand and the road. There were over 75 exhibits so you can easily spend many hours just soaking it all in. I love the creativity, the originality, the pressing and prescient messages on climate and nature and those that take in heritage and humour. So much to admire but here are some of my personal favourites.

Christopher Diaz, with Marmoris the Giant conch, using beautiful art and mosaic work to support the life in the Ocean.

Charlie Trivers with the Currumbin Alley Sirens inspired by coastal sandstone, creations carved by time and erosive chiselling.

Christopher Trotter, A power plant, an industrial growth, a rant, a broken promise, comes in vivid red with fire and passion.

I loved Jo Norton’s delicate porcelain eggs entitled Watch your step. Turtle eggs which are fragile and need our protection.

Emily Hastie with New Dawn New Day, embracing every day with bold and radiant joy like birds singing – something I know well.

Brimming with thoughts and creative processes we headed back to Brisbane but through some interesting backroads which gave us scenes like this. A father fishing with his son in a little tinny. Canvases of colour right before our eyes.