About our arts program
The RPA Hospital Redevelopment is progressing the next stage of project planning, and the project team is developing ways the arts can help deliver exciting, welcoming, healing, and dynamic spaces for patients, carers, staff, and the community.
Beautiful artistic spaces can also help with wayfinding and ensure indoor and outdoor spaces complement health service delivery. The Arts in Health Program includes all artforms: heritage, literature, visual, performing, and dramatic arts.
As part of this initiative, we are excited to announce that leading independent arts facilitator, Michael Lynch, has been selected to lead the Curatorium for the Arts and Culture Strategy for the RPA Hospital Redevelopment.
The Curatorium is a multi-disciplinary approach to the Arts in Health Strategy that relies on a group of individuals and organisations to inform the arts outcomes for the redevelopment.
Michael Lynch will work with the Curatorium to develop an Arts Strategy for the RPA Redevelopment to further enhance the wellbeing of RPA Hospital’s staff, patients, visitors, and the community.
The Curatorium will complement the existing arts programs at RPA and Sydney Local Health District and build on the work of the Arts and Culture Working Group for the RPA Hospital Redevelopment.
The group, established last year, includes key representation from staff and the community.
The Arts Working Group is responsible for advocating for the successful integration of the arts for wellbeing, inclusive of heritage elements, into the RPA Hospital Redevelopment project.
RPA Arts Curatorium
Recognising the important role of arts in healthcare, the RPA Arts Curatorium was established under the leadership of Michael Lynch and Wendy Martin to develop the arts strategy for the redevelopment of RPA Hospital.
The Curatorium is made up of leading arts organisations (Art Gallery of NSW, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Powerhouse Museum, Belvoir Theatre) and artists, clinicians and other health care workers from RPA, Sydney Local Health District and Health Infrastructure.
The group came together over three intensive workshops to explore how the arts can be used to improve the experience of care.
You can watch a short video that explores the themes behind the new strategy.
Art integrations set to support health and wellbeing at RPA Hospital Redevelopment
The arts strategy has been developed with input from the RPA Arts Curatorium, a collective of leading arts organisations, artists, clinicians and other health care...