The Norwest Christian College, Riverstone, community have a talented artist in their midst. Librarian Sarah Frost was awarded the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award for Surrealism for her painting Into the Deep.
Into The Deep shows a tempestuous ocean of swirling dark blue waves beneath radiant sun’s rays, striking across dark angry skies. With their backs or sides to the viewer are a young woman standing on the ocean, a young man sitting on a wave and another standing in the ocean, with water to his knees.
The extraordinary and irrational interweaving of people on an ocean won Ms Frost the 2018 James Gleeson Surrealism Award and $5,000 provided by sponsors and art-lovers Michael and Marilyn Reardon-Small, with acknowledgement of the Gleeson O’Keefe Foundation.
Ms Frost’s inspiration for the painting stemmed from the song Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) by Hillsong United, which speaks of trust without borders and walking on water.
Ms Frost’s interests extend to performing arts and she has acting in commercials, films and children’s theatre. She has been painting for only two years.
Ms Frost is the Norwest Christian College’s librarian, as well as producer and director for college musicals and art teacher for the after-school Seed Academy Art Enrichment class.
The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award coincides with Campbelltown’s annual Festival of Fisher’s Ghost. Held over 10 days, the Festival dates back to 1956 and celebrates the Campbelltown community’s most famous ghost, Frederick Fisher.
