A MORNING WITH

SCUMM

Mat Riding , Soft Top's & Boogie

With the Holiday crowd still hanging around , a nice fresh NE groundswell , it was amazing that the crew got this to themselves for over 2 hours, whilst just on the otherside of the point that they were riding, there must have been 20 + surfers!

All Aboard

Three is not a crowd

Ainslie , Eric and Phil

Phil Harper

Prone or Kneel

High Five from Paul Newman

Softop Softech

Kneel or Prone?

Ainslie

Boogie Girl

Eric Bridges

Mat Man

Phil Harper

Softech Fun

Paul Newman

wave sharing

Phil on the inside followed by Paul , with Eric finally joining in on the fun.....Zoom!

Pure SCUMM

Phil Harper , Paul Newman , Ainslie Dickson , Eric Bridges and myself

Neal Cameron

'' it's obvious that the velocity and centrifugal forces created an unbelievable amount of pressure to smash your Jatz Crackers.! ''

Fibreglass art exhibition at Dunn Lewis has touches of erotica and surfing life

By RON AGGS
Jan. 12, 2016, 11:10 a.m.

ROLLERGIRL: Mark Rabbidge, Pam Burridge, Isobel Rabbidge and Neal Cameron at the opening. Rollergirl is a paper image encapsulated in fibreglass.

Glassfibre Fetish, a 16-piece exhibition open now at the Dunn Lewis Centre, has taken artist Neal Cameron a year to put together and half a lifetime to create.

The collection demonstrates the versatility and variation of fibreglass as an artistic medium.

“Over the years, I have been contracted to build cars, motorbikes, gliders, surfcraft and costumes,” Mr Cameron said.

Several items exhibit a touch of erotica - Roving lady, Fembot soup, Rollergirl, The Hedonist sunlounge, Candle holder bust, Evening Gown and The Stairway Window.

Mr Cameron collaborated with Lisa Walpole to make two evening gowns adorned with 30,000 crystals featuring flexible carbon fibre corsets - the sister gown is on show in the Swarovski crystal museum in Austria.

As with a few sentimental works, the local Evening Gown is not for sale.

Combined price tags for the pieces for sale is above $15,000, and some guests at the Saturday opening night snapped up a couple of collectibles.

Several abstract paintings made with coloured resin, some with cloth, inspired one visitor to commission a floor to ceiling full wall panel as a fabric inlay in a new home he is about to build in the district.

Fembot Soup is Neal’s silver-grey fit-to-form fibreglass bust of friend and model Bridgitte Barrett exhibited at Escape Artfest.

Mr Cameron’s pedigree dates back famed kneeboarder George Greenough’s era, with spoon designs that are still benchmarks.

Surfing icons Mark Rabbidge and Pam Burridge eyed them off at the opening.

One has a clear see-through deck they could have for $2700 but the other is not for sale.

Mark’s 14-year-old son Otis has to tolerate the fact that Neal’s carbon fibre skimboard he has been hotshotting on is also hanging on the Dunn Lewis wall for the next 10 days or so.

Having seen him ride it, Pam reckons she can also be talked into having a slide.

Mr Cameron will donate 10 per cent of sales to the community funded Dunn Lewis Centre.

Glassfibre Fetish is open all day until mid-evening until at least January 23.