Reina Derive is a guitarist and songwriter from Byron Bay. He has played his way along the East Coast between his hometown and Sydney. Reina will be playing an array of soft guitar melodies with vocals that will wash over the audience on the opening night of New Surf Art.

Tom Mason is a Master of Fine Arts (Research) candidate at College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales who spent much of his early upbringing developing a love of surfing between the towns of Crescent Head and South West Rocks, on the mid North Coast of NSW. During this time, the beach’s sand dunes became as important a part of Mason’s social life as the surfing itself. It was there, on the acres of near-empty sand just metres from the water, that Mason and his friends started a playful practice of replacing ‘unnatural’ ephemera (couches, makeshift shelters and fire drums) with objects  made from ‘naturally’ occurring materials (clay, sand and straw). It is in these interventions into the dunal environment that Mason’s output currently strongly resides.