About our arts program
The redevelopment arts program is designed to create welcoming and supportive spaces that promote wellbeing for staff, patients and their families. The arts program will feature 7 art installations throughout the new, purpose-built 7-storey Acute Services Building and refurbished spaces of the hospital.
Opportunities include large scale artworks at key entry locations, vibrant artworks for Paediatric treatment rooms and sensory artworks in the Mental Health Unit.
To inform the curatorial approach to the Arts in Health Strategy, Cultural Capital completed comprehensive stakeholder engagement in 2023 speaking with;
- Clinicians who will treat patients in the wards/clinics in the new hospital
- Elders and other representatives from the local Aboriginal community
- Staff representatives from the multicultural and Aboriginal communities
- Staff at Shoalhaven Hospital, beyond clinical practitioners
- Patients who have received treatment at Shoalhaven Hospital
Artworks will be realised in collaboration with project, staff and community stakeholders.