Transforming care through art

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’.

Patchwork

by Chalotte Tatton

Charlotte’s paintings explore 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.

Location: The Green Heart Gallery | Level 2, Zone D, near the Hospital Café.

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Bean Bag

by Max Ballard

Max’s paintings explore the way in which we perceive everyday spaces, and how these perceptions are impacted by familiarity, memory and nostalgia.

Location: Orange Heart Gallery | Level 1 along the Samuel Way walkway.

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I Me My Mine by Oliver Mills

Oliver is an artist and poet living with epilepsy, vision impairment and cerebral palsy, a physical condition that affects muscle movement and verbal communication.

Using specially designed equipment, and in collaboration with his family, carers, and mentors, Oliver creates artworks that offer a visual expression of how he experiences the world.

Location: Pink Heart Gallery | Level 1, Zone F – just past the Queen Victoria Lecture Theatre

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Still

By Maria Parmenter

Maria describes this body of work ‘Still’ as a series of cloud and seascapes painted in oils on canvas. These works explore the abstraction of seascapes whilst kindling the notion and sensation of awe.

Location: Blue Heart Gallery | Ground Floor, Zone A, WCH – near the entrance to Allied Health and Hospital School.

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Wild Impression

By Amaya Gamage

Amaya is a 19-year-old artist from Mount Gambier. Specialising in drawing animals, Amaya’s art is a vibrant celebration of the natural world. Living with different abilities, Amaya has found a powerful means of communication and self-expression through art, transcending conventional barriers.

Location: Pink Heart Gallery | Level 1, Zone F – just past the Queen Victoria Lecture Theatre

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Are you an artist or would like to purchase a piece of art from one of our exhibitions?

Our Heart Galleries welcome applications from artists, curators, collectives, and organisations to exhibit their creativity. If you’d like to apply or discuss an exhibition idea, please reach out to Lauren using the contact form below.

To purchase artwork from one of our exhibitions, contact our Arts in Health team on (08) 8464 7900 or via the form below. We’d also love to hear your feedback on our exhibitions—let us know through the form below.

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