Canvases of Christmas – Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation
To celebrate their major festive fundraiser “Little Lights for Little Lives” the Art Program curated this festival of festive colour entitled “Canvases of Christmas”
Each artwork is a conversation. It’s a result of a dialogue between the artist and patients throughout the Hospital, some long-stay and some just visiting. These collaborations came through a series of “ArtEx” Workshops that were run bedside in the hospital wards each Tuesday for many months leading up to this exhibition. Guided by their Louis Vuitton Arts Educator Emma, artists visited the hospital and worked with patients to turn their giant canvases into colourful tableaux. Each canvas is a happy reflection of the work of many different patients and their families, done with love and “finished off” by each respective artist.
Christmas Hands and Footprint Friends
177 x 121cm/48″ x 78″
Acrylic on canvas
SPONSORED BY KING AND WOOD MALLESONS
‘Joolie’s workshop took us to the ward of C2 South to work with the gorgeous little babies and their wonderful families. Joolie put her thinking cap on and came up with the very creative idea of using babies’ feet and hands to create angels, reindeer and Christmas wereaths. An Art Ex Workshop had never been conducted on this ward, so this was a very special first for the Art Ex program! Due to the success of Joolie’s workshop we hope to run more workshops with the babies of our hospital in the near future and paint their scrumptious little feet and hands with colour to transfer onto canvases or paper.’
Details from the canvas:
 Baby handprint Christmas angel |
 Baby handprint Christmas Wreath |
 Child handprint and footprint |
Joolie Green pictured with Christmas Eve on Sydney Harbour, also featured in the exhibition Canvases of Christmas
