Art and Photography Exhibition
October 28-30 2022
57 Denison St, Camperdown NSW
Supporting the mental health of health professionals and the broader community, we will be showcasing art, photography and music.
All works displayed and performed will be led by health professionals, including nurses, doctors, pharmacists and allied health.
Current Participants:
Lynn Sioson has been a nurse for 20 years. Before nursing, she had always loved drawing and art. When she decided to pursue regular creative practice a few years ago, she realised she was inspired by human complexities and experiences. She's drawn to our varied ways of thinking, emotional responses and myriad vulnerabilities. As a nurse she has had intimate observations of our capabilities to draw strength, even at our weakest moments. This is what Hope & Halos aims to express. The collection is about the difficulties we’ve faced in the last two years- it showcases our collective physical, emotional and mental struggles whilst also highlighting our abilities to be resilient, to remain creative, to cultivate empathy, and to maintain our fighting spirits. Hope and Halos is about struggle, yet it is also about enduring despite the darkness, or finding ways to light it up.
Christina Ng is a Sydney based pharmacist and landscape photographer. When she is not passionately educating about quality use of medicines, she is enjoying adventurous explorations of places near and far, and capturing those moments. She is continuously inspired and awe struck by how breathtaking and soul soothing nature.
Dr Jayne Antony MD (Pittsburgh) FRACP PhD (Sydney Uni) is a paediatric neurologist at The Children’s Hospital Westmead. Her many years of photography started with her Mamiya film camera with three screw in lenses(!) Her interests are broad ranging with both colour and B&W images accumulated from her national and international travels. She places an emphasis on street photography especially an exploration of Homo sapiens of all ages and various ethnic groups. She seeks to capture images that are hidden and unique rather than well recognised landmarks. Pioneer French photographers who formed the elite Magnum group are her heroes especially the late Henri Cartier-Bresson
Dr Isabel Palethorpe started singing before she could talk, and hasn’t stopped since. She has been involved in writing, arranging and performing music for over 30 years. Dr Palethorpe co-founded MUSE (Music theatre Ensemble of the University of Sydney) in 2002, while completing her PhD, and is the founder, Chairperson and Musical Director of the Challis Singers, a community choir based in Turramurra (founded in 2012). She is currently a member of jazz quartet Sass & Grit and folk group Adder’s Fork, and is releasing her first solo album in October 2022.
Vienna is a dietitian working across hospitals and private practice in Sydney. Her passion is to draw nature and portraits of loved ones. Frida Kahlo, Picasso and her own family of artists are always an inspiration.
Alannah works as a radiographer / trainee sonographer and loves to create all kinds of art in her spare time. For Alannah, art is a way to process and express different emotions and circumstances. Paintings can contain your joy for life or your sorrow and pain. Alannah finds inspiration in her wonderful friends and family, inspirational colleagues and love for animals.
Isabella is a radiology nurse who loves to make art in her spare time. Many of the works she will be displaying were made during the peak of COVID where Isabella found the artmaking process a therapeutic outlet to the heavy pandemic workload.
Jessica works as a clinical nurse specialist in interventional radiology and cardiology at Westmead Childrens' Hospital, which brings with it the highs of comradery, saving lives and enduring the lows of heavy lead gowns, PPE and Covid. The water returns humankind to the lightness of where they came from, but also detaches them from the incessant beeps and pings of modern life on land. I find the wild sea an irresistible distraction. I’ve been a photographer for many years and have recently fallen in love with ocean swimming. What you see before you is a combination of my two passions and you can find me on Sydney’s beaches throughout the year, camera in hand. I took my fascination with street photography and human behaviour, and paired it with underwater seascapes to frame ethereal and serene life moments.
Dr Chris Ellis is a medical doctor and travel photographer. Previously displaying pictures of the people of Cambodia and Nepal, he is now travelling more domestically (since the birth of his beautiful daughter). His new exhibition will feature images from the mountains of NSW.
