Wave has many missed opportunities
POPPED down to Beerwah Marketplace to chat with the Wave folks about the new rail line coming to town last week.
There was no good news from my perspective. No, there won’t be a drinks cart; no, there won’t be a smoking carriage; no, it’s not a ‘double decker train like Sydney’. Where’s the fun in all that. I still remember the Greyhound trip to Sydney with the smokers up the back. Aaah, the smell of stale cigarettes.
Speaking of Sydney I popped down the other day with the better half and did the right thing and caught the train. What a rip off – nearly $25 one way to the city. We could have taxied to our accommodation for less. Shouldn’t the government be encouraging people not to use roads? Wrong, again.
Aside from being an astute and critical observer of life generally, I’ve also got a side hustle as ‘art critic’. And so it is, another year and another missed opportunity for the judges of the Sunshine Coast National Art Prize.
If the judges were enthusiastic enough to award the significant prizemoney – $25,000 – on the basis of a social crisis – housing ownership in this instance – then Raimond De Weert’s haunting fibro cottage was a superior entrant on that same subject. Perhaps being from NSW worked against him. Or even rising art star Gerwyn Davies’ offering would also have stood the test of time at the Caloundra Art Gallery.
Either way, you can’t look away. I’m always a sucker for a new perspective on the Glass House Mountains and could easily have elevated Sam Harrison’s to top prize, but at least it was highly commended. All makes you think though, doesn’t it.
