Key artists from Flotsam’s vibrant program unite in Group Love, an eclectic group exhibition that explores our deep and enduring obsession with the ocean.

This dynamic collection brings together diverse artistic styles, from surf culture icons to emerging visual storytellers, all converging to create a unique and immersive experience. The space is transformed into a visual oceanarium — a place where waves, water, and whimsy collide through paint, print, and perspective.

Featuring the creative works of renowned and rising artists including Andrew Kidman, Fiona Pyke, Elliott Kirkwood, Shell Bankier and more, Group Love celebrates the beauty, mystery, and magnetism of the sea.

Opening Night: 2 May, 5pm–8pm (Free)
Where: Love Street Store, Kirra
Hours: Open daily, 5:30am – 4:30pm
Cost: Free admission

Reflections: Fiona Pyke

A collection of photoblends that portrays the reflective mindset of the surfer with a flora or fauna background whist in the ocean or on the beach.

Images from Glass Love: Andrew Kidman

Stills from seminal surf film Glass Love, on the 20th anniversary of its debut

Select oceanscapes: Elliott Kirkwood

Ocean of Love: Photographic Artworks by Shell Bankier

Ocean of Love is a visual meditation on the movement of water, the architecture of the unseen forces that shape our world, and the dynamic interplay between ocean, atmosphere, and light. Captured through the lens of Shell Bankier, these photographic works reflect the ocean not as merely a subject, but as rhythmic structures and systems — the pulse of waves to the sculptural movement of the sea, as part of a greater planetary cadence in constant motion and repose.

Each work serves as a visual study of the ocean’s immense power and precision — a mirror to the planetary forces that govern us and the continuous flow of energy within and across the Earth’s surface. These images are not staged moments, but rather carefully framed observations of universal patterns and processes as they unfold, seen in form.

Waves rise and fall, light fragments and reforms — each frame revealing the flow of energy, the precision of pattern, and the subtle order within apparent chaos. These images speak to the interconnection of all things: the pull of the moon, the shift in tides, the breath of the Earth itself, and our deeper connection to this grander whole.

Presented in a visually striking digital form, the collection unfolds across a high-resolution screen display, where detail, tone, and movement are rendered with brightness and depth. This format allows for a broader sequence of works to be experienced as a continuous visual dialogue — expansive, evolving, and immersive.

Ocean of Love offers space to observe, to consider, and to reconnect — not only with the ocean, but with the deeper systems of which we are a part. It invites stillness, inviting viewers into a quiet sense of this encounter with the vast elemental forces that shape us and our world, captured with precision and reverence.