Home is Where the Art Is
Thursday 10 December 2020 Good news! You can check Wavescape Surf & Ocean Festival events for a week, and bid online for unique painted sneakers, a one-off surfboard by Brett Murray, and a Jake Aikman painting.
WALKING THE WALK: Nine pairs of Vans sneakers were decorated by SA artists. Photo Spike
A unique selection of eight artist-decorated sneakers, a surfboard by Brett Murray and a seascape painting by Jake Aikman are for sale online at the festival's Instagram feed WavescapeSA, with bids taking place in the comments section, or via DM, or for the crusty old farts out there who are not on social media, via email to shani@wavescape.co.za.
Proceeds go to selected ocean charities NSRI, Shark Spotters, 9 Miles Project, Ocean Pledge and The Beach Co-op. Instead of Artboards for the Artboard Project this year, Wavescape decided on Artshoes, which are decorated by Alice Lazarus, Amy-Lee Tak, Jade Klara, Lionel Smit, Manuela Gray, Max Goldin, Nola Muller, Russell Abrahams and Terence Kitching. Artists took deilivery of blank VANS sneakers to use as their canvas, with octopus a popular subject this year (we wonder why?).
Jake Aikman donated South Atlantic II, a seascape painting, while Brett Murray summed up the year brilliantly on his short performance surfboard with Goofy not very happy with the Covid Pandemic in 2020. The starting bid for the shoes is R800, but some are already on more than R2,000, while Brett's board is sitting on R10,000 while Jake's painting is on R4,000. Go on Instagram now to pick up some bargains for some of South Africa's most celebrated artists.
GOOFING OFF: Let's just say that 2020 is a year that few of us will want to remember. Photo Spike
Bidding is open from 4 December and ends on 12 December at 5pm. Delivery by courier is at the buyer's expense unless you live in Cape Town. The festival ends on Friday with a special evening of short films at Jack Black's Taproom featuring the top 10 short films from the Zag Shorts short surf and ocean festival. Tickets are available on Quicket. If you want to enter, do it by midnight tonight here
Tickets are still available for the second online film screening takes place online on Saturday, but is viewable until the end of next week, while tickets for Spike's Swell Course and Slide Night will still be available for a week after the festival so you can watch any time. Get tickets here
Director of Wavescape Shani Judes said that a mini Wavescape festival would be held in the first week of March to accommodate the Oceans Alive big wave evening, Shark Night presented by Wild Oceans and the Galileo Drive In, which had to be cancelled last week due to strong winds.
#WavescapeFestival presented by @vans_za, with support from @petco_sa, Cape Town and Western Cape Film and Media Promotion (a division of Wesgro), @saveourseasfoundation, Long Beach Capital and @JackBlackBeer.
The main beneficiaries of this year's Artshore project are the NSRI, @sharkspotters, @9milesproject, @oceanpledge and @thebeachco_op.