• Gallery & Exhibition Program

    Our Arts in Health program coordinates a changing visual art exhibition program across four 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 provides 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.

    As well as creating a brighter hospital environment, our Gallery & Exhibition program also supports talented South Australian artists.

    Please note: Due to COVID-19 there are strict restrictions in the Hospital. To remain updated on this information, click here

    These are our exhibitions currently on display until January 2021.

    Curated by Emily Collins | The Theatre of Theatre

    The ‘Theatre of Theatre’ is a light-hearted play on the serious theatre of surgery and features a cast of patients and Hospital staff, and eccentric surgical tools. Curated using visual material found in the WCHN’s History and Heritage Collection, The Theatre of Theatre stands as an endearing ovation in honour of the Hospital’s surgeons, past and present.

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    Evelyn Gooley and Max Dal Santo | Summer Freedom

    Evelyn and Max specialise in the fluid art technique, creating a marbling effect by pouring fluid acrylic directly on a base. This exhibition shows works capturing their love of the ocean and evokes carefree days of summer.

    Summer Freedom is on show in the Blue Heart Gallery: Ground Floor, Zone A, WCH — near the entrance to Allied Health and Hospital School.

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    Elise Leslie-Allen | Fluffy Tails and Wiggly Bums

    Elise describes Fluffy Tails and Wiggly Bums as a celebration of the beauty fun domestic animals bring to our lives. Oil paints on linen or canvas is her preferred medium.

    The exhibition is on show in the Green Heart Gallery: Level 2, Zone D, WCH — near Hospital Café.

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    Chris Herzfeld | Stillness of Motion - Location Series

    This series is part of an ongoing collection Chris photographed in various parts of South Australia and around the world. Chris likes to refer to these photographs as dance-fashion rather than straight dance photography.

    This exhibition is on display in the Orange Heart Gallery: Level 1, Zone E – Samuel Way walkway.

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    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.

    For more information about the program including tips for an effective application, click here

    To put in an application or discuss an exhibition idea, please contact:

    Lauren Simeoni, Arts Officer

    (08) 8464 7900 or via email

    Get in contact!

    To purchase a piece of art from one of our exhibitions please contact our Arts in Health team on (08) 8464 7900 or email

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