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, from which 50 will be chosen to be part of the Touring 50 Exhibition which will begin in Jacaranda Square near Olympic Park Train Station, before becoming part of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s permanent art collection.
Thankful to Operation Art for filling the hospital walls with colour, joy, hope and beauty, Art Curator at The Children’s Hospital, Ivy Baddock, says the artworks help to reduce stress: “We hope that the display will have a similar effect for those presenting for their vaccinations.”
View the exhibition at artsunit.nsw.edu.au.
