"Finding Your Way" - Create your own unique artwork
“Finding Your Way” is an interactive art installation created by Blair Garland and Russell Solomon (BLUSS). Developed in response to the curatorial brief, the work explores themes of diversity, multiculturalism and interconnected community. Pick up an exclusive SWELL Passport Package at any SWELL Info Hub to create your own unique artwork souvenir.
Russell will guide you on an informative tour of their installation, enlightening you about the project, its backstories and introducing you to the art of frottage.
When | Friday 11th September
Time | 11.00am – 11.45am
Where | Meet at the SWELL Smalls Gallery, 766 Pacific Parade, Currumbin Beach (inside the new Currumbin Nippers Club)
Cost | $20 + booking fee
(includes a SWELL Passport – Finding Your Way for frottage artworks and a pencil)
To see more about the artwork “Finding Your Way” and how to purchase a SWELL Passport Package click here.
About BLUSS
BLUSS is collaboration between artists Blair Garland and Russell Solomon. They are multidisciplinary artists and life partners, living and working in Redcliffe. They have individual careers exhibiting and winning significant competitions, also they combine their creative forces on specific projects.
Their work germinates from an idea or conversation. They begin by researching a specific site for an artwork, then their individual and unique skills meld, uniting to express the idea. Materials matter to them and having a minimal carbon footprint is important to their visual arts practice.
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About the Inclusive Arts Program
With support from the National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) and Creative Gold’s Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), SWELL were able to share the beauty of art with the new generation of Currumbin locale. In 2026, SWELL Sculpture Festival is proud to deliver ‘Finding Your Way,’ a multi-sensory storytelling artwork developed through creative workshops at Currumbin Community Special School with culturally and linguistically diverse students living with a disability.
The Inclusive Arts Program is delivered as part of Creative Gold, a Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) Council-led initiative. RADF is a partnership between the Queensland Government and the City of Gold Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland. This program is support by National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA).
QUEENSLAND’S LARGEST SCULPTURE EXHIBITION, OVER 100 ARTWORKS FROM CURRUMBIN ALLEY TO KROPP PARK CURRUMBIN BEACH
IMAGE: ‘Yaatra’ by India Collins, Image by Katie Bennett Embellysh. Finding Your Way Image courtesy of BLUSS