The First Year of the Dragon

Winners 2024

Winners of the 2024 Ocean Shores Art Expo

Madeline Kelly, 2024 Judge

Madeleine Kelly (b. Freising, Germany 1977) makes work that engages with human encounters with “nature” and elemental forces. Bringing together figuration and abstraction, her practice is a mixture of the cosmic and the material that explores the many, often ineffable, points of contact between people, animals and plants such that the material world is transformed …

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Simon Wright, 2024 Judge

Simon Wright has held public engagement, exhibition, curatorial and executive management positions in private, public gallery and museum realms since 1993. As Assistant Director (Learning + Public Engagement) at QAGOMA, he currently has Executive oversight of a broad range of community-facing and audience-centric portfolio responsibilities, including: Public Engagement (The Children’s Art Centre, Public Programs, Member Services), …

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2024 Flyer

Myths and Stories

With the recent Lunar New Year and the Year of the Dragon celebrations, we began to consider the myths and stories we live by. In Korean culture, the Dragon is a deity presiding over water, ocean embodying the water  or rain god. In our Indigenous Culture, the Rainbow Serpent represents one of the great and …

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Unite a Nation

Winners 2023

All the winners of the 2023 Ocean Shore Art Expo

Eagle Rock

Eagle Rock

Mick Stovin is one of many talented artists entered into the 2023 Expo.  His charcoal drawing, “Eagle Rock” 2023 (90cm x 110cm) will be available for purchase. Jason Saab & Haumole Olakau’atu embrace after a Manly Sea Eagles try.  The passion and mateship formed through sport, ripples the highs and lows of elite sportsman and …

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