Fostering ongoing use, study & celebration of ocean pools worldwide
The Pool is a 2-part documentary which will screen on the ABC on 22 and 29 September at 7.40pm.
The Pool includes an interview with our Chairperson, Marie-Louise McDermott, filmed at Sydney’s Wylies Baths.
Marie-Louise doesn’t know which episode will include her interview about ocean pools, but is sure each part of The Pool will be geat viewing!
Entries for our 2019 Ocean Pool Art Award (visual and performing arts) opened on 1 July 2019 at https://www.judgify.me/2019OPArt. This award is open to anyone of any age from anywhere in the world but the entries (whether music or still or moving images) must relate to one or more of the ocean pools listed on the All Into Ocean Pools Inc website. To enter, you need to either upload an original work with a file size of less than 5MB or upload a document with an online link that our judges can use to view or listen to your entry.
Entries for our 2019 Ocean Pool Art Award will close on 30 October 2019, judging will take place in November 2019, and our judges’ decisions regarding the award of certificates and
Entrants’ membership status will be assessed as at the closing date and only entrants who are then financial members of All Into Ocean Pools inc are eligible for
You can join All into Ocean Pools Inc online at https://www.registernow.com.au/secure/Register.aspx?E=32111or by downloading a membership application and paying your membership fee by cheque or direct deposit (see https://allintooceanpoolsinc.org/about-us-2/membership-and-rules/). A full adult annual membership costs only AU$20.00 and child/concession memberships (AU$15.00), household memberships and life memberships are available.
Our judges will shortlist the entries without reference to the entrants’ membership status. On being advised of the membership status of shortlisted entrants, our judges will decide on the certificates to be awarded to shortlisted entrants and whether and how to allocate prizemoney to any entrants recorded as financial members of All
Sadly, the financial constraints that limited the prizemoney we have available for our art awards have also prevented All I
After considering our judges’ reports on the range of entries
submitted for our 2018 Pat Skinner Award for writing about ocean
pools, our Committee agreed to immediately institute a separate
Research Award.
Prize-money for our 2018 Research Award was
provided by our major sponsor, Diverse Productions Pty Ltd.
Prize-money of $500 (equal to the maximum prize-money
ever awarded to one individual for any of our
awards) for our new 2018 Research Award was
awarded to Valentin Rey for Piscines de marée six
essais, his six ground-breaking essays on the
aesthetics and architecture of the ocean pools of the
Azores and Madeira Islands. Valentin’s research on
Portugal’s Atlantic islands was undertaken as part of
his postgraduate architectural studies at a Swiss
University, the EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale
de Lausanne – see https://www.ep:.ch/en/home/)
and written in French.
Valentin described his 160-page document as ‘a
theoretical approach on architecture. It seeks to reveal
the qualities of ocean pools in terms of materiality,
resistance, time and as a constructed object strongly
related to the site where it is built.’
Kim Mettam was awarded an Honourable
Mention in our inaugural Research Award for
Explosive History behind Mettam’s Pool, his entry for
the 2018 Pat Skinner Award for writing about ocean
pools.
His account of the development of Perth’s Mettams
Pool written ‘with support from all of Frank Mettam’s
grandchildren’ had been published as a one-page
article in the Weekend West Australian of October
29-30, 2016. Kim’s entry stated ‘This beach was
largely wall to wall reef until the early 1930s. Out of
this Grandfather created a natural swimming and
snorkelling pool and a sandy shoreline. It took over
35 years of hard work but to the family it was a
labour of love for their community’.
Our writing judges decided not to award any prize-money
for the 2018 Pat Skinner Award for writing
about ocean pools. They did however award two
Honourable Mentions.
– our member, Caroline Josephs (yes, the same
Caroline Josephs awarded prize-money for our
2018 members-only Shirley Ellis Art Award) for
Memory — Palm Beach Ocean Pool, her memoir
of the time ‘in 1947 at four and three quarter years
of age I learned to float in Palm Beach Ocean
Pool. This bodily experience began a lifetime of
love of ocean pools. I am now 75 years’, and
– Jane Downing for her story Hurly-Burly,
‘a piece of short fiction remembering the
Burleigh Heads ocean pool’ that once existed on
Queensland’s Gold Coast.
Image of the ocean pool at Terrigal, NSW, Australia awarded prize-money for the 2018 inaugural Shirley Ellis Award for artwork entered by members of All into Ocean Pools Inc.
An image of Wylie’s Baths, NSW, Australia awarded prize-money for the 2018 members-only Shirley Ellis Award for art relating to ocean pools