GC Icon Exhibition
The Gold Coast's favourite icons are hanging out at Pacific Fair!
Gold Coast Icons Exhibition - Centre Court Lower Level Arcade
1 - 31 August
Come and see 30 of the most influential people who have helped shape the Gold Coast - depicted on canvas! Pacific Fair in conjunction with The Royal Queensland Art Society (RQAS) and The Gold Coast Bulletin invite you to visit the Gold Coast Icons Exhibition.
This unique collection of paintings pays homage to the people who have helped to make the Gold Coast what it is today.
They are the identities as voted by you in the Gold Coast Bulletin poll, as those who best represent the personality of the Gold Coast.
The list includes politicians, property developers, fashion designers, artists, actors, sporting heroes, musicians, business leaders, medical personalities, tourism and community leaders - all of whom have made a significant contribution to our colourful city.
And the 31st Icon is... Pacific Fair!
To commemorate our 31st birthday and our long history on the Gold Coast, we've also been immortalised on canvas as the 31st Icon! In March this year, Pacific Fair partnered with the Royal Queensland Art Society (RQAS) to produce an art exhibition like no other. Throughout June and July, 70 artists from the RQAS met with and painted the Icon's portraits. These paintings were judged by an independent assessor who selected the works in the exhibition which is now on show at Pacific Fair throughout August.
PACIFIC FAIR IS PLEASED TO ANNOUCE $6,770 WAS RAISED FOR CREATE FOUNDATION
On Thursday 14 August the who's who of the Gold Coast turned out at Pacific Fair in the hope of taking home one of the Coast's very own 'icons'. More than 200 guests, including the Gold Coast icons themselves, walked the red carpet, and mingled while the winning portraits of Pacific Fair's Gold Coast Icons exhibition went under the hammer.
On the 14 August, the winners of the exhibition were officially announced with Melissa Bates taking out the first place for her Mark Occhiluppo portrait, with Emma Griffths second for her Perry Cross piece and Annette Raff coming third for her painting of dance identify Fiona Munroe.
