Operation Art
A collaboration between The Children's Hospital at Westmead and the NSW Department of Education
Operation Art, a collaboration between The Children's Hospital at Westmead and the NSW Department of Education, showcases student visual arts achievements through exhibitions and workshops at Sydney Olympic Park, NSW Art Gallery, and regional galleries. Fifty artworks from the 2022 exhibition are touring NSW, ultimately gifted to the Children’s Hospital.
Project Statement
Operation Art is an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the New South Wales Department of Education. The program includes exhibitions, workshops and professional learning opportunities in visual arts for teachers and students from all schools in NSW.
Operation Art exhibits the achievements of visual arts students at Sydney Olympic Park, the Art Gallery of NSW and regional galleries. Operation Art also holds student and teacher professional learning workshops across the state.
These 50 artworks were selected from the 2022 exhibition at Sydney Olympic Park Armory Gallery to tour NSW galleries, and will be gifted to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
Winning Artworks
Ella Barrett (Winner Junior Curator’s Choice Award 2022)
Kurri Kurri Public School
‘Thong Print Cockatoo’
Mixed Media
420 x 594
Tully McGrouther (Winner Senior Curator’s Choice Award 2022)
Winmalee High School
‘Anatidae Duck’
Digital
420 x 594
Matilda Moore (Winner Danny Eastwood Indigenous Art Award)
Catherine McCauley Catholic College
‘Alpaca My Bag’
Drawing/Painting
420 x 594
Dusty Plum (Winner Outstanding Student Award)
Booligal Public School‘Furry Friends’
Printmaking
420 x 594
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