A Little Piece of Me
Paediatric Palliative Care

A Little Piece of Me celebrates the many influences that shape the identities of developing children and adolescents who are supported by Paediatric Palliative Care teams at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network and John Hunter Children’s Hospital.
These teams provide compassionate and specialised care to children and adolescents who have life limiting illnesses. Part of this care can include legacy and memory making projects which are an important aspect to many patients and their families who receive such a diagnosis.
An initiative of Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation Art Program, the project enables families to create a photographic pixel portrait – a technique that uses small images to create a singular large image. With each team’s guidance, families gathered photos of people, places and things that have helped shape their child’s life.
Once collected, the photos were arranged by artist Andrew Christie to create a portrait of their child. The process provides families with an opportunity to reflect on their child’s life, and what is important to them. The final artwork creatively captures the wonderful lives of the children and adolescents outside of their illness and offers the families a tangible memory they can keep, but most importantly, tells their unique story.
The portraits celebrate the importance of understanding the many facets of identities in developing children and adolescents, while also highlighting how patients and their loved ones create an atmosphere of resilience, adaptability, and creativity during often trialling times of uncertainty.
This exhibition is being held concurrently with displays at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Bear Cottage Manly and John Hunter Children’s Hospital.
This project is an initiative of Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation Art Program and is supported by Bennelong Australian Equity Partners, The Nicholas Trust and Photoking Randwick.
For more information and sales, please contact the Art Program via email art@schf.org.au or call 1800 244 537.



Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick

Alana, 17 years old

Antonio, 3 years old

Amarni, 7 months old

Diana, 3 years old

Eva, 12 years old

Eve, 6 years old

Georgia, 6 years old

Jacob, 7 years old

Kai, 12 years old

Max, 18 months

Nate, 11 years old

Rayaan, 10 months old

Zoe, 3 years old
The Children's Hospital at Westmead

Alyssa, 15 years old

Angel, 16 years old

Brooklyn, 8 years old

Cemile, 7 years old

Cooper, 7 years old

Georgia, 3 years old

Nicholas, 5 months old

Omar, 10 years old

Peter, 13 years old

Posie, 5 years old

Sophia, 5 years old

Tevita, 11 years old

William, 16 months old
Bear Cottage, Manly

Aiysha, 15 years old

Alana, 7 years old

Annabelle, 5 years old

Archie, 3 years old

Catherine, 19 years old

Dolly, 5 years old

Ellis, 10 months old

Ethan, 2 months old

Izzy, 5 years old

Jaya, 21 years old

Jesse, 19 years old

Leyan, 14 years old

Lili, 4 years old

Louie, 6 years old

Luca, 5 years old

Madeline, 14 years old

Mana, 12 years old

Noah, 3 years old

Rakshitha, 8 years old

River, 3 months old

Stella, 15 years old

Tobias, 10 months old
John Hunter Children’s Hospital

Anthony, 13 years old

Ari, 1 year old

Bronte, 13 years old

Daniel, 17 years old

Jaci, 18 years old

Ryan, 13 years old

Samuel, 4 years old

Taniora, 13 years old

Tilly, 17 years old

Wyatt, 7 years old
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