Art Park Surfboard Giveaway

We welcome you all to Art Park! A space reserved for your visual pleasure and creative recreation. In this age of participation and social networking hoojamflip, ArtPark wanted to start their own art community to reach beyond the horizons of their sun soaked, Byron Bay home. And so, without pretension, Art Park came into being. From their own social orbit in Australia, Art Park has mushroomed into a global collective of artists and art lovers who share a common ethos and a commitment to furthering it. However, the crux of the ArtPark community is not so much the crusade, but in bringing people together. Its about the interactions that take place and the exchange of ideas — this is the stuff that builds a sense of belonging. This is the real art of community and the essence of park-life. About the board: Being based in Byron Bay, Art Park is of course surrounded in surf and surf culture. "We try to surf everyday and making arty surfboards was definitely on our 'things to do list'." Paul McNeil (Art Park co-creator) had previously been one of the creatives behind the influential surfboard company SEA Surfboards and had also done an art series of boards with Bob McTavish. This of course led to Ben Mctavish a local ripper and surfboard royalty. The two have been collaborating on various projects for 4 years and when the idea of a Thalia Surf board came along they decided on this hot little single fin. Its the first official Art Park/Ben McTavish surf board and everyone is stoked with how it looks and keen to ride it, but that honor will go to some other lucky surf rat. Your welcome. Enter for the win! About the Shapers/Artists: Paul McNeil/Artist: Legend of the board, high Lord of Byron aka The Mayor, distinguished artist and ART PARK co-creator. Paul is a highly influential and widely published Australian artist with exhibitions in NYC, London, Melbourne and Sydney, several books under the belt, and a long list of collaborations with the who’s who of the Australian and international rock, surf and garment worlds. Based in Byron Bay and one of the creatives behind the influential SEA surfboards Paul's distinctive board art is widely sought after. These days ART PARK keeps Paul more than busy, but he is more than happy to dip his hands in resin and produce the odd surf beauty. Ben McTavish/Shaper: Born Lennox Head 1974. There was a shaping bay in every house we lived in, I used to clean them. I watched dad shape my 1st board, an old twin fin Bluebird knee board. Shaped 1st board at 16, a 5.10 ratty thruster. Since then I have hand shaped over 4000 boards and production shaped around 10,000 for the McTavish brand. I'd been lucky enough to do some stuff with Paul/Art Park of recent times and was always a massive fan of his work with Dain and the guys at SEA, its just a surf board but its unbelievable how much love and effort goes in to getting this all to work and not be too excessive, my department seemed simple a 5.10 "Diamond Sea" flex fin, the rest was in Paul's hands and the skills of the McTavish factory. One of those boards you really wish you could keep... perfect combo of art and function...proud.