SCPUH_2D_Final_Catalogue

SUNSHINE COASTUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ART COLLECTION

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CONTENTSTHE ART PROGRAM 4 MICHELE KNIGHTLEY 114INDIGENOUS WELCOME 6 DALE LEACH 120 8THE OUTDOOR ROOM RACHAEL LEE 124 ALEXANDER KNOX BLAIR MCNAMARACENTRAL COURTYARD 12 (ICU WAITING ROOM) 130 DAVIS THOMAS BILLY MISSI 134ADEM CROSBY CENTRE COURTYARD 16 CARL P MOGGS 138 DAVIS THOMAS CATHY MONEY 144LIFT LOBBIES 20 IDA MONTAGUE 150 ALY DE GROOT ROLAND NANCARROW 156SUNSHINE COAST HEALTH INSTITUTE (SCHI) 24 BIANCA BEETSON KERRY NEILL 162INPATIENT ROOM ART COLLECTION 26 LAURIE NONA 166GREG ADAMS 28 NICK OLSEN 170JUDITH AHERN 36 SANDRA PEARCE 176MARITA ALBERS 38 BEATRICE PROST 180LEAH BARTHOLOMEW 42 BRIAN ROBINSON 184BIANCA BEETSON 50 JOEL SAM 188ELISA JANE CARMICHAEL 52 SUSAN SCHMIDT 192AMY CLARKE 58 MELINDA SERICO 198MEGAN COPE 62 MEAGHAN SHELTON 204LYNDON DAVIS 72 TIFFANY SINGH 210ALY DE GROOT 74 WAYNE SINGLETON 216SIMON DEGROOT 76 PIP SPIRO 222SHANNON GARSON 80 DEBBIE TAYLOR 226HELGA GROVES 84 IAN TREMEWAN 232RAELEAN HALL 88 COLLEEN WALL 238PAUL HARBOUR 98 PAM WALPOLE 240BONNIE JENKINS 104 JUDY WATSON 248 108IMAGING WAITING ROOM (KABI KABI) COLLEEN WALL, MAURICE MICKELOW, HOPE O’CHIN, DHANA BOKELUND & LYNDON DAVIS Cover Image: Elisa Jane Carmichael, The Bungwall Fern 3 Left: Raelean Hall, On the Rise

THE ART PROGRAMIn 2013, Independent Arts Management (iAM) was commissioned by Lendleaseon behalf of Exemplar Health and the Queensland Government to curate andmanage the Sunshine Coast University Hospital’s (SCUH) Art and HealthProgram. This included a number of public art commissions and over 450 in-roomwall based artworks, making it a significant collection of local and Indigenousartwork on the Sunshine Coast. The program acknowledges the proven benefitsof art as a medium for health promotion and therapeutic intervention. By takinga holistic approach to integrating public art throughout the campus, the SCUHhas embedded art into the design, landscape and ongoing operation of thehospital. The Art and Health program supports, enhances and develops theexisting cultural and creative ecology of the region.The public art commissions included the Main Entrance Indigenous WelcomeWall, the Outdoor Room entry sculpture, Central Courtyard and Adem CrosbyCentre Courtyard sculptural elements, the Sunshine Coast Health Institute (SCHI)integrated artworks and Lift Lobbies. In addition, an extensive collection of wall-based artworks was curated and commissioned for a selection of the internal rooms,corridors and waiting areas. The art collection features over 90% local or locally-connected artists and over 30% Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander artists.iAM’s curatorial theme for the SCUH Art and Health Program is Belonging.Belonging This vision recognises the importance of the hospital as a facility serving the region, and the unique opportunity it provides to use art to gain recognition, establish a sense of place and assist with integrating the facility into the fabric of the region. The public art complements, contrasts and enhances the architectural structures and landscaping elements of the facility, to create an integrated healing environment to support patient wellbeing. Images From Top Left: Bianca Beetson, Guana | Davis Thomas, Kin4 Davis Thomas, Kindred | Alexander Knox, Nudibranch

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INDIGENOUS WELCOME Wunya Colleen Wall, Maurice Mickelow, Hope O’Chin, Dhana Bokelund & Lyndon DavisWUNYA means ‘welcome’ in the Kabi Kabi (Gubbi Gubbi) language, thetraditional owners and custodians of this area. This unique collaborative artworksymbolises a call to country, where the artists represent meaningful elements oftheir native flora and fauna.Kabai Bee, the endangered Bulimbirjari Butterfly and Mibir Mary River turtle areall very important spirit people of our land law. Colleen WallThe Dolphin, Yuloo, and the Goanna, Waruee, in their environment, both embodyour values of ‘Place’, ‘Belonging’, ‘Respect’ and ‘Lore’. Hope O’ChinWe look after our ancestral country, Djaagan – from the ocean and rivers, to therainforest and mountains - and the land looks after us. Maurice MickeloThe Bauple, Macadamia nut signifies the uniqueness of our flora and fauna as itgrew only in the Kabi Kabi catchment originally. Dhana BokelundThe Black Swan, Goolooin, represents Maroochy, an ancestral being searchingfor the spirit of lost love Guloom, Mt Coolum. Lyndon Davis 7

THE OUTDOOR ROOM Nudibranch Alexander Knox The Outdoor Room is the key public art site for the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. As the main entrance and large-scale public plaza, the Outdoor Room offers a significant opportunity for public art. It is framed by an architectural structure that defines the main entrance to the hospital and the Sunshine Coast Health Institute (SCHI). Encapsulating the central theme of belonging, the public art work extends a welcome to visitors, patients, students and staff to hospital. The artist Alexander Knox, has drawn on ideas and forms from nature’s exuberant theatre of life for the work Nudibranch (shell-less sea snail). The drama of display and attraction, of mimicry and subterfuge involving the intricate and sometimes elaborate strategies nature employs to interact, survive and thrive. In particular the diverse flora and fauna from the bush and coastal wetlands and the rich marine environment surrounding the Sunshine Coast University Hospital has inspired the forms and colours of the work. Within the works form and palette are influenced by several riotously coloured Nudibranch - soft corals, the spectacular little bee-eater bird and several local flowering plants. A child does not need to be told that a coral reef or an iridescent butterfly is beautiful, the attraction is natural and instinctive. We are drawn to the colour and form of a flower or the brilliant plumage on a bird. These spectacular adaptations are not for us, we are not their target, and yet still they fascinate and please us. We can sometimes forget that we too are part of nature and our connections to the natural world are deep and complex. Alexander Knox Images Right and Overleaf: Alexander Knox, Nudibranch8

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CENTRAL COURTYARD Kindred davisthomasThe centrepiece of the hospital is an enclosed central courtyard, forming thegreen heart of the main hospital building. The courtyard has been designed toaccommodate leisure activities for both children and adults as well as spacesthat allow for quiet, contemplative reflection.The Kindred artwork has emerged from the history of the previous landscapesof the hospital site: the grasslands, fields and flora of the Kawana area. Thisartwork relates the visual language of grasslands and seed pods weaving anelegant and gentle visual narrative throughout the courtyard. Made up of twointer-related key elements – the wall structure and vertical sculptural elements,Kindred uses a simple system of repeating motif, form and materials by which toresonate with the grassland ecology of the site.The sculptural elements sitting on the peak of each curving pole also feature alight source embedded into the sculptural pod. The reflective surface of theseelements will allow for a responsive daytime quantity attuned to the sunlight andweather, whilst at night the work will come to life in a unique and tranquil way.The elements will glow, reflect and shadow a warm white light. Kindred will cyclethrough a program of fluctuating light commands that will activate each lanternwithin a cluster to emit a warm undulating white light. The effect will be that in thenight the landmark parabolic wall work will be transform into an oscillating cloudof light, woven together by the individual clusters located through out the space.Images Left and Overleaf: Davis Thomas, Kindred. 13

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ADEM CROSBY CENTRE COURTYARD Kin davisthomasThe Adem Crosby Centre Courtyard offers secluded views for reflection andobservation of the artwork to gather their thoughts or simply be for a moment.Kin is a subtle yet dynamic artwork that reflects upon the ancient local landscapeand flora, cycles of time, rituals of community, gathering and belonging. Theartwork functions as both a visually engaging vista from within the waiting room,as well as a porous screen giving privacy between the waiting room and theactivities within the courtyard.Each sculptural element is handmade and unique, offering a diffused vibrant lightsource (viewable day and night) that transitions, at a barely perceptible pace,across a colour sweep of healing colours. The pace of light change is such thatthe viewer might not recognise the change until it is complete – creating a subtledynamism in the work. Equally though, one can sit with the work for a period,and experience as the artwork cycles through a full colour cycle.The native flora of the area inspires the concept; the richness of texture, structure,colour and form of this ancient native habitat. In particular the Banksia and it’scycle from seed pod to flower to pod has underpinned the visual language ofthe sculptural elements. They transition from one form to the other in a cycle thatechoes in time immemorial; connecting to both the annual cycle of seasons andthe geographic timescale of the Sunshine Coast’s landscape.The materials and building techniques absorb these ideas of time cycles, rituals(of making), ancient and contemporary techniques, tools and products. Kinwill infuse the audience with a sense of cyclic timelessness, transition andcontemplation.Images Left and Overleaf: Davis Thomas, Kin. 17

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LIFT LOBBIES Interweave Aly de Groot The two lift lobbies are central elements of the Hospital Street and provide the lift transport for the public and visitors from the ground level to the upper floors of the Facility. The ability of visitors to find the A and B lift lobbies and access the correct lift is an important wayfinding aspect for the hospital. Interweave is a collaborative project between artist and weaver Aly de Groot and a group of Indigenous weavers from the Kabi Kabi traditional land: Beverly Hand, Cecelia Combo, Brianna Asher and Helena Gulash. Interweave features two clusters of handwoven sculptural forms lit with subtle fibre optic lighting. Lift Lobby A features The Jellyfish installation, and Lift Lobby B features The Great Cormorant Bird installation. Lift Lobby A: The Jellyfish, features five jellyfish hand-woven from sustainably sourced, neutral fishing line and fibre optic cable. There are many different species of jellyfish found in the ocean near the hospital and the artwork is an evocative and calming signature artwork for the lobby A area. Lift Lobby B: The Great Cormorant Bird, features a series of five birds inspired by one of Australia’s most elegant birds, the Great Cormorant, also hand-woven from sustainably sourced fishing line and fibre optic cable. These birds are found commonly in the Sunshine Coast region and are known internationally as the ‘fishing bird’; is an apt title for birds woven out of fishing line. Images Right and Overleaf: Aly de Groot with Kabi Kabi weavers Beverly Hand, Cecelia Combo, Brianna Asher and Helena Gulash, Interweave. Special Thanks to Helena Gulash, Kabi Kabi consultant.20

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THE SUNSHINE COAST HEALTH INSTITUTE (SCHI) GUANA Bianca BeetsonThe inspiration for this artwork is from the guana, which was a native wildflowerfound in the Kawana, Warana and Caloundra area.The Kabi Kabi (Gubbi Gubbi) are the traditional people and custodians ofthe area. The name ‘guana’ means wildflower in the Kabi Kabi language andwildflower blooms are a metaphor for new life and seasonal change, while alsorepresenting ideas, history and time related to the Kabi Kabi culture. 25

Artists PAUL HARBOUR SANDRA PEARCE BONNIE JENKINS BEATRICE PROST in alphabetical order KABI KABI COLLABORATION BRIAN ROBINSON GREG ADAMS MICHELE KNIGHTLEY JOEL SAM JUDITH AHERN DALE LEACH SUSAN SCHMIDT MARITA ALBERS RACHAEL LEE MELINDA SERICO LEAH BARTHOLOMEW BLAIR MCNAMARA MEAGHAN SHELTON BIANCA BEETSON BILLY MISSI TIFFANY SINGH PIP BOYDELL CARL P MOGGS WAYNE SINGLETON ELISA JANE CARMICHAEL CATHY MONEY DEBBIE TAYLOR AMY CLARKE IDA MONTAGUE IAN TREMEWAN MEGAN COPE ROLAND NANCARROW COLLEEN WALL LYNDON DAVIS KERRY NEILL PAM WALPOLE ALY DE GROOT LAURIE NONA JUDY WATSON SIMON DEGROOT NICK OLSEN SHANNON GARSON HELGA GROVES RAELEAN HALL26

INPATIENT ROOM ARTWORK COLLECTIONArt in hospitals can provide therapeutic activity for patients and carers. It offersa welcome distraction for those who are ill, or who are visiting loved ones thatare unwell. It provides a more pleasant working environment for staff and canbe used by them to communicate information through using distinct landmarksand assist with wayfinding.In patient rooms, IPU’s, waiting areas and patient lounges, feature a collection ofcommissioned or directly purchased artworks. Locations have been determinedby the Joint Arts Committee to welcome and support both patient and careractivity in a wide range of spaces. The art in the Sunshine Coast UniversityHospital (SCUH) reinforces the links with the local community, by commissioningand using the works of locally connected artists, who understand the landscapeand culture and history of our local area.Today’s health service is fortunate enough to have many examples of how the artscan be successfully implemented within SCUH and there are many examples ofthe creative application of visual arts in healthcare environments and examplesof the benefits to patients and staff alike. Therapeutic Left Top: Pip Boydell,Environments Banksia Integriflora, detail. 27

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GREG ADAMSGREG ADAMS, local artist, first visited Queensland at thirteen. It had such animpact on him that he still draws on these early memories when creating hispaintings. The timber houses on stilts were exotic and fascinating to him. Thewarmth of the seas, the blue of the sky and the sweet smell of ripe pineapplesare vivid memories.Greg has lived on the Sunshine Cost since the 1970s. Theelement of naivety in Greg’s work is deliberate. His paintings are included incollections throughout Australia, the United Kingdom and Europe.Left | Jacaranda, Greg Adams, acrylic on mountboard, 600mm x 800mm, 2016.Above | Dusk, Greg Adams, acrylic on mountboard, 800mm x 600mm, 2016.Overleaf Left | Houses, The Palms, Qld Tropical Garden, Greg Adams, acrylic onmountboard, 600mm x 800mm, 2016.Overleaf Right | Coastal Garden, Greg Adams, acrylic on mountboard, 600mmx 800mm, 2016. 29

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Left | Headland, Greg Adams, acrylic on mountboard, 600mm x 800mm, 2016.Above | Houses and Jacaranda, Greg Adams, acrylic on mountboard, 600mmx 800mm, 2016. 33

Above | Night Garden, Greg Adams, acrylic on mountboard, 600mm x 800mm, 2016. Right | Mountain Evening, Greg Adams, acrylic on mountboard, 600mm x 800mm, 2016.34

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Noosa Skyscapes Series, Judith Ahearn, limited editioned giclee print on archival cartridge, 2016.36

JUDITH AHERNJUDITH AHERN, local artist, has been making photographs for over thirty years.Her practice includes work in the mediums of black and white photography, colorphotography, alternative processes and video art. Judith Ahern investigates andphotographs the coastal environs and skyscapes of the Noosa area. Her workaddresses the landscape as a theme and also encompasses an exploration ofthe digital processes. Ahern has exhibited her work at galleries and museums inAustralia and internationally in France, US and Spain. 37

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MARITA ALBERSMARITA ALBERS, local Eumundi artist, has been exhibiting and teaching, in avariety of mediums, for over ten years. Her work is in the public collections of theMuseum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and Charles Darwin University,as well as private collections worldwide. Her triangle motifs can be seen in thethe natural landscape - spiky pandanus leaves, termite mounds, jagged rockpinnacles inspired by her travels in Arnhem Land.Left | Prismatic I, Marita Albers, acrylic on board, 600mm x 800mm, 2016.Above |Prismatic III, Marita Albers, acrylic on board, 800mm x 600mm, 2016. 39

Above from Left | Prismatic X, IV, V & IV, Marita Albers, acrylic on board, 800mm x 600mm, 2016. Below from Left | Prismatic VI, II, VIII & VII, Marita Albers, acrylic on board, 800mm x 600mm, 2016.40

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Blueberry Ash, Leah Bartholomew, Fine Art giclee print of acrylic on canvas, editioned on cotton rag paper, 650 x 900mm, 2016.42

LEAH BARTHOLOMEWLEAH BARTHOLOMEW has a background in Fine Arts, textile design and graphicdesign and is a multi-disciplined artist and designer. Based on the flora of theSunshine Coast, Leah has created a series of works using vivid colour, pureabstract forms and harmonic compositions. After a successful collaboration withAustralian label, Gorman in 2013, Leah’s signature style was recognised by alarge audience and she is held in collections nationally.Sea Daisies, Leah Bartholomew, Fine Art giclee print of acrylic on canvas,editioned on cotton rag paper, 900 x 900mm, 2016 43

LEAH BARTHOLOMEW Above | Cunjevoi Plants, Leah Bartholomew, Fine Art giclee print of acrylic on canvas, editioned on cotton rag paper, 900 x 900mm, 2016. Right | Pandanus at Dusk, Leah Bartholomew, Fine Art giclee print of acrylic on canvas, editioned on cotton rag paper, 650 x 900mm, 2016.44

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LEAH BARTHOLOMEWAbove | Grey Carroll Myrtle, Leah Bartholomew, Fine Art giclee print of acrylic oncanvas, editioned on cotton rag paper, 900 x 900mm, 2016.Left Top | Banksia, Through the paperbark trees at Tea Tree, Leah Bartholomew,Fine Art giclee print of acrylic on canvas, editioned on cotton rag paper, 650 x900mm, 2016.Left Below | Spring Carroll Myrtle, Leah Bartholomew, Fine Art giclee print ofacrylic on canvas, editioned on cotton rag paper, 900 x 900mm, 2016. 47

LEAH BARTHOLOMEW Above | Summer Proteas, Leah Bartholomew, Fine Art giclee print of acrylic on canvas, editioned on cotton rag paper, 900 x 900mm, 2016. Right | Bootlace Bush, Leah Bartholomew, Fine Art giclee print of acrylic on canvas, editioned on cotton rag paper, 650 x 900mm, 2016.48

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Above | Heron Island Suite #8, Digital Photographic print on lustre paper, 2009.50