Surf City, Sydney

Ended a big weekend eyeing off classic and curious old sticks at Geoff Cater’s [surfresearch.com.au] amazing exhibition of surfing treasures strewn across the Gerringong Town Hall floor in, as Geoff said it, true darwinian style. You get the feeling these boards are dying to be back in the water.

Geoff was generous with his time, passion and knowledge and even agreed to help us out with the MOS board installation with advice and direction – bringing his critical insights, balanced perpectives and, in his own words, ‘palpable enthusiasm’ to the job facing us in Nov 2011.

Just heard Nell Schofield talk about her new exhibition Wax On at the Hazelhurst Art Centre.  It features mainly recently commissioned and created art works inspired by beachgoing and surfing and, as well as featuring fantastic stuff to look at, treads confidently through surf culture’s muddy minefields of sexism, environmental damage, localism and intolerance.

She’s also put together a great blog (onwaxon) documenting the exhibition development process and exploring cool tangents and linked themes.