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Judges of the 2018 inaugural Shirley Ellis Award for artwork entered by members of All into Ocean Pools Inc have awarded:
Congratulations to our winners!
The ABC’s audience-led project Curious Sydney was recently asked to find out:
Sue Daniel, digital producer for ABC NSW News, contacted our Chairperson, Marie-Louise McDermott, for help in addressing those questions and invited her to be take part in an ABC Radio Sydney broadcast segment about Sydney’s ocean pools.
Here are the links to that ABC story:
See the feature article in the June 2018 issue of our monthly newsletter Ocean Pool News for more information about ‘Who built the ocean pools around Sydney?’
(Left to right: Peter Baldock, Olga Baldock and Sheridan Hopkins)
On Sunday August 6, Olga Baldock received her $300 prize money cheque and a certificate recording her success in the 2017 Sheridan Evans Award for art relating to ocean pools at a cafe near Sydney’s Fairy Bower Ocean Pool. The cheque from our award sponsor, Diverse Productions Pty Ltd, was presented by All into Ocean Pools Inc Committee Member, Sandra Blamey. Also present for the presentation and brunch were All into Ocean Pools Inc member Sheridan Hopkins and Olga’s husband, Peter Baldock.
Certificates had already been posted to prize money winners Oliver Scarlin and Brydie Piaf, who received their prize money by bank transfer.
Arrangements are now underway for Graham Gall to receive his $200 prize money cheque and a certificate recording his success in the 2017 Sheridan Evans Award for art relating to ocean pools at a presentation in Canberra.
Olga Baldock will soon be presented with a cheque for AU$300 in prize money for entering this work Morning Dip Coogee in our 2017 Sheridan Evans Award for artworks relating to ocean pools. The Australian ocean pool depicted in this image is the Ross Jones Memorial Pool sited on Sydney’s Coogee Beach immediately below the Coogee Surf Life Saving Club.
The AU$1000 prizemoney for the All into Ocean Pools Inc 2015/2016 Sheridan Evans Award was shared equally by two artists:
All into Ocean Pools Inc congratulates our winning artists and thanks:
Entrants for this inaugural Sheridan Evans Award had to submit original work produced in a digital format prior to 15 June 2016 and relating to one or more of the Australian ocean pools listed on the All into Ocean Pools Inc website. There were no entry charges and no limits on the number of entries that a person or group could submit.
All into Ocean Pools Inc hopes future Sheridan Evans Awards will attract an even wider range of entries including some that feature music and dance, some entries depicting ocean pools in wild and stormy moods as well as others depicting ocean pools as happy, sunny, romantic or mysterious places.
Entries for the 2017 Sheridan Evans Award can relate to any of the ocean pools listed on the All into Ocean Pools Inc website (Australasian ocean pools, South African ocean pools, American ocean pools, European ocean pools). Keep checking this website for further details.