8 FEB > 5 MAR 08
LAUNCH: 9 FEB 12>2PM

MAIN GALLERY

Operation Art
Nelson Meers Foundation
2008 Touring Exhibition
NSW Department of Education and Training

Fifty paintings by school children across NSW, selected from hundreds of artworks sent in from schools. The children create their artworks in the full knowledge that they will be appreciated by sick children and their families.
These artworks range from the delightful paintings by kindergarten children to the sophistication and assuredly skillful image-making of high school students in a wide variety of media from drawing and painting to collage, photography, printmaking, computer graphics and textiles.
Operation Art is an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the NSW Department of Education and Training in partnership with the Nelson Meers Foundation. The Children’s Hospital at Westmead has a large collection of paintings, sculpture, photographs and other artworks which contribute to the holistic approach to healing for which the hospital is renowned. A panel of judges, including Ben Quilty nominated 50 artworks from a total of 600 works for this exhibition. They have been shown in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and will tour Regional Galleries in NSW.

EXHIBITIONS: 8 FEB > 5 MAR
LAUNCH: 9 FEB 12>2PM

FOYER GALLERY

Dreams by the Sea | Karen Macken

An exhibition of watercolours, pastels, acrylics and mixed media by Karen Macken, reflecting the beauty of our natural coastal environment inspired by the shapes, colours and contours of the seashore.

ACCESS GALLERY

Etheric | Linda Champion

This work explores the organic and the intangible and comes up with unusual delicacy, lightness and refinement. It has a celestial quality, heavenly and poetic.

GREEN GALLERY

Voices of Children – a Sense of Community
Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong

This exhibition provides Indigenous students attending primary and secondary schools in the Shoalhaven area opportunities to explore their identities as individuals, as well as their sense of connectedness to the community. Using disposable cameras, the photographers were able to share their perceptions and experiences with the broader community. Voices of Children: A Sense of Community, is a multimedia exhibition
exploring image and word.

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