For your coffee table, bookshelf and sea-affected life.
Based in western Victoria, Australia but spanning the coastlines of the world, Great Ocean Quarterly is a journal of art, ideas and the sea. Since 2013 we have produced nine highly sought-after volumes, featuring some of the most original thinking in art, photography, literature, music, activism, science and other fields; all of it bound together by a love of the ocean.
We support thinkers, dreamers, makers, explorers and protectors of our oceans. We aim to cause the least possible harm to the environment in the making and distribution of GOQ.
Our latest issue (GOQ Volume 2:4) focussed on the wonders of Australia’s Great Southern Reef and was published in October 2023.
From the high tide line,
Jock, Mick and Mark
Great Ocean Quarterly with the Great Southern Reef Foundation
We're working together with the Great Southern Reef Foundation to highlight the beauty and abundance of this massive natural system, with all its glorious colour and light, fish and birds and plants, its vulnerability and its power. And the genius it reveals in our writers and photographers, painters and thinkers and scientists. Learn more about the Great Southern Reef Foundation.
ART, IDEAS & THE SEA
Who is Great Ocean Quarterly?
Mick Sowry
Creative Director: Mick’s written and directed screenplays and documentaries including the multi-award winning Musica Surfica, alongside two major film and performance works with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. These productions, The Reef and The Reef Redux, have been performed worldwide. He’s a photographer, a surfer and the founder and spirit-penguin of Great Ocean Quarterly.
Jock Serong
Editor: Plucked from the salted ranks of Australia’s surf writers, Jock edited GOQ from its launch to its untimely closure, and has gone on to publish five novels, to his mum’s ongoing acclaim. He lives, surfs, dives and fishes on Victoria’s west coast and sometimes in the Furneaux Islands of Bass Strait.
Mark Willett
Commercial Director: Marketeer, buccaneer, race sailor, surfer, and purveyor of the world’s finest tug boats. Mick said, “I have an idea” and Mark said, “Let’s do it!”