‘Wonderland Rabbit’ by Milperra Public’s Mya Deguara.
The annual Operation Art exhibition, which encourages school students from Kindergarten to Year 12 to design artwork for sick children in hospital, is traditionally held at the nearby Armory Gallery however, with Covid-19 preventing a physical display, organisers had to “think outside the box” and came up with a creative solution.
Rather than cancel the exhibition, they worked with the Pullman Hotel to light up the building with the artworks – and that will continue until December, along with an online exhibition.
A worker at nearby Qudos Bank Arena vaccination clinic said: “The light projections have been so uplifting and therapeutic at the end of my night shifts.”
There were more than 700 entries from 211 schools – including Milperra, Punchbowl and Tower Street public schools, St Charbel’s College and Malek Fahd Islamic School – from which 50 will be chosen to be part of the Touring 50 Exhibition which will begin by being displayed in Jacaranda Square near Olympic Park Train Station, before becoming part of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s permanent art collection.
Art Curator at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Ivy Baddock, says the artworks are an important way of helping to reduce stress, make places more welcoming and enhance spaces where quiet moments occur.
View the exhibition at artsunit.nsw.edu.au.
