The Art Program has teamed up with the Music Therapy team to create Listen with Your Eyes #2, an exhibition of tambourines that have been playfully adorned with paint and designs by patients and their siblings!

About the Artist

Music Therapy is a vital service which employs the creative use of music to address an individual’s physical, emotional, intellectual, and social needs. The Art Program has teamed up with the Hospital’s Music Therapy team to create Listen with Your Eyes #2, an exhibition of tambourines that have been playfully adorned with paint and designs by patients and their siblings! The aim of this project is to capture the joy that Music creativity brings to children at the Hospital and their families.

When we think of music, our mind immediately makes us think of sounds which when put together, can create beautiful moments of creativity. We often do not think about the tiny movements that our hands, fingers, feet and entire body make to create the sounds that we hear. This project sought to record the ephemeral nature of movements made when creating sounds. In capturing this, we explore how music can be transformed from an auditory experience, into a visual one! Patients participated in workshops where they could pick their own colours, paint their fingers, and play with paint to their favourite songs. This experimental (and often messy!) process created unique artworks, specific to the person who made it.

Thank you to Australian Children’s Music Foundation (ACMF) who have generously donated the tambourines for this project. And Special thanks to Monica Hye Yoon Lee and Matt Ralph (Music Therapists), whose musical talents resonate throughout each artwork.

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