
Arts in Health
Through our Arts in Health program we use art, play, music and literature to encourage curiosity and creativity to reduce the stress and anxiety of being in hospital. Providing moments of calm in a busy health environment, we use creative approaches to healthcare and wellbeing.

Public Art
Our Arts in Health program activates and brightens areas of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital through public artworks and art installations to improve the health and wellbeing of the hospital community.
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Play Therapy
Working closely with patients and their families, Play Therapists provide distraction to minimise anxiety and fear, help keep patients safe, prepare and support patients for procedures, provide emotional support and create positive fun and meaningful experiences.
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Gallery & Exhibition Program
Our Arts in Health program activates coordinates a changing visual art exhibition program across five galleries located in the Women’s & Children’s Hospital. The Heart Galleries bring visual arts to the Hospital community to provide a space away from the stresses of treatment to distract, entertain and inspire, improving the Hospital environment.
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Book Buddies
The Book Buddies program makes a child’s hospital experience more enjoyable and encourages reading to improve literacy skills. Qualified Book Readers visit the wards, engaging children with the many adventures that can be had through reading books.
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At the heart of our Arts in Health Program is a dedicated team passionate about enriching the lives of women, children, and families through creative expression.
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Charlotte Tatton is an emerging artist based in Adelaide.
Working primarily with oil paint, Charlotte explores the intersection of abstraction, still life, and materiality, particularly focusing on 1960s textiles, furniture, and domestic objects. She reinterprets the still life genre by moving away from traditional representation, prioritising formal concerns of flatness, pattern, and colour.
Charlotte merges historical and contemporary visual languages, gleaning from the textures and forms of postwar domestic objects like plastics, polyester, and reflective surfaces, to create fragmented, non-linear spaces through collage and painting. This disruption of traditional compositions investigates the relationship between painted surfaces and illusionistic space, challenging perspective and distorting depth.
‘Patchwork’ is currently on display in the Green Heart Gallery 💚 (Second floor, outside Hospital Cafe).
To learn more about our current gallery exhibition visit the link in our bio.
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Hannah`s designs for the BlG W Toy Sale tokens celebrate friendship, hope, and brighter days ahead.
Each $2 token not only showcases her amazing artwork but helps fund the Play Therapy program at the Women`s and Children`s Hospital, delivering essential, child-focused care to patients at every stage of their hospital experience.
A small donation for a huge impact Purchase your token today!
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A heartfelt thank you to Burnside Village for their incredible Moments with Mum campaign, raising $1,911 for the WCH Foundation! 💐
For Mother’s Day, shoppers were invited to capture a beautiful moment with their Mum through a stylish photo shoot, with fur babies also joining in on the fun! Every dollar from these photo sessions was donated, helping support women, children and families when they need it most.
Thank you, @burnsidevillage for celebrating mums and for your support in making a real difference in our community 💛
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