What's On

St Vincent’s Arts Health Program offers a range of events to engage and entertain patients and visitors.

Please contact SVHSarts@svha.org.au with any enquiries. 

St Vincent’s Hospital Level 3 exhibition wall

All exhibition artworks are for sale with 20% of sales price supporting the SVHS arts health program, please contact SVHSarts@svha.org.au

22 May – 23 July Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Cooperative

This exhibition of work by Boomalli artists, in collaboration with St Vincent’s Hospital, has been an annual event since 2022. Boomalli is proud to present their artists’ work for St Vincent’s patients and visitors to enjoy and provide opportunity for healing and reflection.  Curated by Kyra Kum Sing

24 July – 17 September Billy Yip

Billy Yip is an artist, designer and founding member of Sydney’s LGBTQI+ RAT parties of the 1980 and 90’s as well as a grateful past patient of St Vincent’s mental health service having been diagnosed with schizophrenia 40 years ago. “Making and viewing art is an excellent therapy to relax, enjoy and refresh the mind and the body and takes off anxieties…Each art piece tells a story of a thousand words.”

St Vincent’s Hospital Level 4 Mezzanine

June 

Pride Month – 2024 Mardi Gras banner and float artwork.

July – September

Outcomes from creative consultation workshops with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders on potential aesthetic interventions in the emergency department waiting room. Led by Dunghutti Biripi artist Wanita Lowe. This project is in collaboration with Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Cooperative and made possible through NSW Health Infrastructure Arts Health Award and St Vincent’s Curran Foundation.

St Vincent’s Hospital level 4 corridor to Private and Green Park façade

The Ice Street Project engages residents of Tierney House, a homeless health accommodation service at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, to take and exhibit photographs of their local area. The project promotes emotional healing for some of the most vulnerable and marginalised members of our community, giving them a voice through photography to connect with their creativity and learn new skills.

Sacred Heart Health Service

Foyer 
Exploring Comfort and Connection in Palliative Care. Photography Research project outcomes

Level 4
Balmain Primary School artworks by students from Kindergarten to year 6