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Surfboard art charity auction raises R300,000

2 Dec 2016

The Wavescape Artboard Project, a charity auction held at Tigers Milk in Muizenberg earlier this week, raised a record of R300,000 for the organisation. This year, proceeds from the auction will go to the NSRI, Wave For Change, Shark Spotters and the South African Adaptive Surfing team, who are on their way to California for the world championships in a few days.

Nick Rabinowitz auctions Lionel Smit's board, closest to front

The surfboard decorated by South African artist Lionel Smit went for an individual record of R67,000. Iconic pop artist Brett Murray's board went for R55,000. This equals the previous record set for his board in 2013. The previous record for the auction was R234,000 raised in 2012.

The sculptured board by Jenna Barbe, who created an intricate replication of bleached coral reef, enjoyed a lot of social media attention before the event. It went for R27,000, while the simply rendered oil painting of a calm ocean by Jake Aikman brought in R30,000. The next board to go was Steve Pike’s painting, based on the original The Great Wave of Kanagawa by Hokusai in 1830, which raised R23,000.

The other artists who participated were Alexis Aronson, Manuela Gray, Peter Van Straten, Sujay Sanan, Chris Burkard and Conrad Botes, while local comedian Nic Rabinowitz was MC for the evening.

Find out more on Wavescape's website and Facebook page.