Gallery & Exhibition Program
The WCH Foundation’s Arts in Health program coordinates four art galleries located in the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
The ‘Heart Galleries’ bring visual art to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital community to provide patients and their families spaces of distraction and entertainment, helping to alleviate the stresses of having a child in hospital. The gallery spaces are just one way our Arts in Health program helps to achieve better health outcomes for patients and their families.
New exhibitions are installed every three months and predominately feature the works of up-and-coming South Australian artists.
In addition to the four Heart Galleries, our Arts in Health team work closely with the Hospital community to deliver ‘pop-up exhibitions’.
These are our exhibitions that are currently on display.
Ryder’s River Life | Ryder
11-year-old Ryder from the Riverland was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain cyst.
During this tough time in hospital Ryder found comfort in drawing and being creative. His Play Therapist saw an opportunity for Ryder to use his creativity to support his hospital stay with the idea of developing a mini exhibition. Check out Ryder’s wonderful artworks which assisted his journey to recovery!
Location: AIH Creative Support pop-up exhibition, Pink Heart Gallery | Level 1, Zone F – just past Queen Victoria Lecture Theatre
Are you an artist? Would you like to have an exhibition?
Artists, curators, artist collectives, community groups and organisations are welcomed to apply to exhibit in our Heart Galleries.
To put in an application or discuss an exhibition idea, please contact:
(08) 8464 7900 or via email
Past exhibitions
To view our past exhibitions, visit the following links:
- Tiana Scasny | Peace and Harmony
- Sue McKay | LIMITED
- Violet Cooper | LaLaLand
- Curated by Alex Del Gaudio | Time to Play: a History of Play Therapy at the WCH | 2022
- Robin Tatlow-Lord | Facing Fears | 2022
- Alice Potter | Colour Series | 2022
- WCHN Staff and Volunteers | Talent Within, Together | 2022
- Sonya Unwin | You Deserve a Big Bunch | 2021
- Artists in Residence – James Parker and Dr Amelia Walker | Supporting Lives: Behind the Lives at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital | 2021
- Marie Littlewood (group exhibition) | It’s not black and white | 2021
- Caitlin Bowe & Chelsea Farquhar | Let it not pain you anymore than earth hurts earth | 2021
- Kirsten Alderson, Dr Xenia Doorenbosch, Anna Goodhind, Emmica Lore + Charmaine O’Reilly | In Miniature | 2021
- Lucinda Gregory | Dream a Little Dream | 2021
- Michael Chorney | PORTRAIT OF KANGAROO No.5 | 2021
- Phoenix Frahm | Feelings with Flowers; Let Them Go | 2021
- Sarah Northcott | Presence II | 2021
- WCHN Staff + Volunteers (group exhibition) | Talent Within The Wild | 2021
- Anna Moustrides | Simplicity | 2021
- Tarnanthi (group exhibition) | Mirdilyayanthi | 2021
- The Sensing World | Curated by Emily Collins (Museum Consultant, WCHN History & Heritage Collection) | 2021
- Forgotten Murals II: Art Casualty of Built History Curated by Emily Collins (Museum Consultant, WCHN History & Heritage Collection) | 2021
- Chris Herzfeld Stillness of Motion | Location Series | 2020
- Elise Leslie-Allen | Fluffy Tails and Wiggly Bums | 2020
- Evelyn Gooley and Max Dal Santo | Summer Freedom | 2020
- Evy Moschakis | My future is so bright | 2020
- Kate Fitton | Tide | 2020
- Kristen ‘Chiggy’ Johnson | A Territory Inspiration | 2020
- Lisa Ingerson | Nurses, Colleagues, Friends | 2020
- Mandi Glynn-Jones | Furry and Feathered Friends | 2020
- Nigel Brown, the Alchemist | Cooking Up Some Art | 2020
- WCHN Staff + Volunteers (group exhibition) | Talent Within Isolation | 2020
- Tarnanthi (group exhibition) | Karra Wadlu Yaitya Purruna | 2019