Voting for the PBEAT2025 People’s Choice Award closed on Saturday, April 26, with the tied winning entries announced at a community morning tea at Pearl Beach Hall.
The two winning entries received an equal number of People’s Choice voting and also received the highest number of eligible votes.
Both works involved the careful application of creativity, skill and time in their creation.
The winners, Andrew Alter and Kristen Erling, will split the prize and receive $500 each, thanks to the sponsorship by Belle Property Central Coast.
Alter’s A Stretch of the Imagination allowed viewers to imagine a giraffe, made from paperbark mâché and palm fonds, in Pearl Beach.
Drawing inspiration from local materials, Alter crafted larger than life forms that explore unreal possibilities.
His interest in conservation across international borders help shape his approach to seeing and hearing old things in new ways.
Erling’s Goddess Worships Sun and Moon is derived from the harmony of nature’s revolutions of the sun and moon, vital to sustaining earth’s own cycles.
The colours of the three pieces symbolises the energy of powerful forces.
Erling, a local emerging artist, used repurposed satellite dishes, mosaic and natural materials.
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