Summer Art Exhibitions
December 2024 – February 2025
The Art Program is delighted to present the final rotation of exhibitions for 2024 Season Four: Mapping with four new displays filling the corridors of the Hospital from December 2024 - February 2025.
About the theme
Season Four: Mapping
How might we map bodies, landscapes, conversations, experiences and emotions through linear and cyclical languages; through signs and symbols and resonant networks?
Season Four: Mapping draws us into communion and collaboration with other bodies, beings, forms and formations through offering insight into how we build and chart our understandings of our internal and external worlds.
Brilliant artists, generous patients, and in-hospital friends and partners have contributed to our exhibition program, each with unique perspectives that invite the viewer to explore, reflect, and celebrate through diverse artistic encounters.
Some of the artworks on display are available to purchase, with a portion of each sale donated to the Foundation. If you would like to purchase one of these incredible pieces, please contact the Art Program by phone 1800 770 122 or email info@schf.org.au.
Sudjuice & Oliver Fontany
Image: Wards (2024) Oliver Fontany
Exhibition: Us
‘Us’ explores an intimate dialogue between Oliver Fontany & Sudheera Dissanayake (Sudjuice), and their artistic response to the site and ethos of Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick. Oliver & Sudheera embrace an autobiographical approach in their new body of work, touching on a myriad of values and experiences held dear to both artists. These include an ongoing relationship with hospitals & healthcare systems, learning balance through ritual & repetition, love & kindness, spirit & perseverance. Painted in a saturated colour palette ‘Us’ aims to emulate the vibrant and playful nature of all children.
Aksara Harriram
Image: Surreal Estate: Debris of the past, (2023) Aksara Harriram
Exhibition: Surreal Estate: Hidden Worlds
Aksara Harriram is an artist, graphic designer, illustrator and art educator that has surrounded herself with creativity. Her collection covers a sense of belonging and place in the many worlds created. These worlds are more about what we come to expect in an ideal world and the things that make it. She hopes to bring about bright and vibrant places that are all-encompassing, inclusive, and dynamic.
Jesse Heriot
Image: The Joys of the Heatwave (2023) Jesse Heriot
Exhibition: Dreamland
As a daydreamer herself, artist Jesse Heriot invites viewers to get lost in a dizzying world of make-believe. Dreamland follows a bizarre and fantastical world, like the one we inhabit, but not quite. Get lost in a Where's Wally type of world, filled to the brim with stories and secrets.
Livewire
Image: Arkania (2024)
Exhibition: MAP IT OUT
In ‘Map It Out’, Livewire’s exciting new treasure map project of 2024, we delve into the magical realm of imagination, creation and the discovery of new worlds.
Exploring a variety of artistic mediums from watercolour to charcoal, each collaborative session with patients, we seek to build and design epic hidden lands, weave together the stories of their inhabitants, the mysteries of their treasures and the maps that guide us to them.
Livewire is Starlight Foundation's dedicated program for teenagers living with a serious illness, disability or chronic health condition.
National Child Protection Week Art Competition 2024
Artworks by patients and siblings from Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
Image: Clown Doctor (2024) by Dan, 12 years old.
In September, Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation Art Program collaborated with Sydney Children’s Hospital’s Network Child Protection Unit to create awareness about National Child Protection Week. CPU Staff, SCHF Artist Educators, and SCHF Volunteers engaged with staff and patients at Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, and The Children's Hospital at Westmead.
Learn more about our Programs and Innovations
Greenlight
A game changing program that finds and validates new fundraising ideas for innovations in paediatric medical research.
Hospitals United for Sick Kids
A new initiative that brings children’s hospitals and paediatric services from across Australia together to raise funds and awareness.
Then and Now
Then and Now is a collection of images taken by the Foundation’s photographer-in-residence, Jimmy Pozarik, revisiting 25 patients he had photographed to find out where they are now.
