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Results of our 2018 Research & Writing Awards

January 6, 2019 by Marie-Louise McDermott

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.

2018 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’.

2018 Pat Skinner Award for writing about ocean pools

2018 Pat Skinner Award logo

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.

Filed Under: Awards, Portugal's ocean pools, Western Australia, Writing award Tagged With: 2018, awards, mettams pool

Judging of our writing award has started

November 10, 2017 by Marie-Louise McDermott Leave a Comment

Our judges are now reading all the entries for our 2017 Pat Skinner Award for writing received before the deadline of midnight (West Australian time)  on 31 October.

This Award attracted entries from Australia, the UK and Spain.

We expect to announce the award winners in December.

Filed Under: Awards, Writing award Tagged With: award, judging

Presentation of art prize money to Olga Baldock

August 12, 2017 by Marie-Louise McDermott Leave a Comment

Peter Baladock, Olg Baldock, Sheridan Hopkins(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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: 5. Sydney-Eastern Beaches, Art award, Australia's ocean pools, Awards, New South Wales, Photographers

Graham Gall’s Kiama Ocean Pool at Sunrise#5

August 1, 2017 by Marie-Louise McDermott Leave a Comment

Graham Gall's Kiama Ocean Pool at Sunrise#5

Graham Gall’s image awarded AU$200 prize money in our 2017 Sheridan Evans Art Award.

Filed Under: 7. Illawarra, Art award, Australia's ocean pools, Awards, New South Wales, Photographers, XsliderPix

Presentation of prizemoney to winners of 2016 Sheridan Evans Art Award

August 9, 2016 by Marie-Louise McDermott 1 Comment

Sheridan Evans was a career public servant, who lived in Canberra from 1980 until her death in 2014 and would have been pleased to see a fellow Canberran as joint winner of  the inaugural Sheridan Evans Award for artwork relating to ocean pools. At Canberra in July,  Julianne Collingridge, one of the three judges for the 2016 Sheridan Evans Award, presented a $500 cheque to Canberra-based artist Jennifer Baird, whose prizewinning entry,  ‘Pools of Sydney’,  was an original hand-coloured  linocut print, that captured the joy of being in and around Sydney’s ocean pools on a hot, sunny summer day.  For details of this presentation, see the article that appeared in psnews on 26 July.

The other  joint winner of  the inaugural  Sheridan Evans Award was Coledale-based artist,  Lizzie Buckmaster Dove for her  images of sculptures from her  ‘Alchemy of Blue‘ project. Using concrete pieces of the Coledale ocean pool that she had found on her daily beach walks or extracted during the pool’s 2011 renovation, this artist created works that spoke of rock, tide, time, gravity and the lightness of being in water. Arrangements for presentation of her prizemoney are still being finalised.

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Australia's ocean pools, Awards, Other artists

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