Meet the Inscape Artists

Hannah Irawan is a soulful singer and songwriter with a comprehensive back ground in musical performance. She is a poised and charismatic performer with a broad range of musical styles.

In 2001, Hannah completed an Advanced Diploma whilst studying at Sydney's School of Creative Arts, majoring in Vocal Performance and Leadership.

She is also a mother of two children and is a strong believer in setting a positive example for the next generation by showing compassion towards others, using your given talents and creating a legacy to be proud of.

Will is from a musical family in Hobart and trained at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music.

His focus is the guitar. He has since been working full time as a guitar teacher, member of various bands in Hobart, including the wonderful ‘Banana Brothers’ and as a musical duo with Jazz singer Hannah Irawan for Inscape Tas as part of the ‘Instant’ public performances at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

Crystal Livermore has completed 2.5 years of her 3-year Inscape training and is a regular bedside/Pop-Up musician. 

She is a graduate of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music that has been performing in a variety of styles such as jazz, rock, folk and classical from a young age.

Crystal has a strong passion for sharing the happiness music brings through teaching and through playing for sing-a-longs in aged care facilities. 

Claire grew up in Canberra and attended the Australian National University School of Art. She has completed artist residencies in Iceland, Japan, and Samoa, and has exhibited nationally, and internationally.

Claire explores the world through her art making, examining large-scale systems (eco systems, solar systems, the universe) in the context of the everyday experience of being human. Her paintings and installations attempt to reconcile these different perspectives on life.

Claire was one of successful applicants to take part in the Care Through Creativity residencies for 2021/22.

Claire now works regularly as an artist on the Art-making program.

www.clairependrigh.com

Tiff Norchick (she/they) is a London‑born, non‑binary composer, singer‑songwriter and multi‑instrumentalist now based on Lutruwita / Tasmania. After moving to Nipaluna / Hobart to study songwriting at the University of Tasmania, Tiff embraced a remarkable creative journey - joining their first band at 49, earning a Bachelor of Music with First‑Class Honours at 50, and embarking on a harp apprenticeship at 51.

Their music - delicate and dark, textural and soothing - is deeply informed by therapeutic harp work across Tasmania’s hospitals, where Tiff brings gentle melodies to premature babies, elders and everyone in between.

Their songs have been featured in film soundtracks and performed by choirs, reflecting a practice that is as mesmerising as it is compassionate.

Tanya’s background combines Remedial Massage, Physical Theatre and Visual Art practice in furniture, costume and sculptural design.

Drawing on a range of creative possibilities and quite often a ukulele… she invites patients, staff, and family to collaborate in an encounter of play, which is essentially empowering and transformative.

Tanya has worked with Inscape as Acting Arts Health Facilitator, artist and musician.

www.tanyamaxwell.com

Shelley is an experienced performer, songwriter, singer and guitarist of 20 years – Bachelor of Music. She has extensive experience in the music industry, touring nationally and internationally along with working in communities and arts organisations.

Her biggest passion is using creativity to find connection and healing.

Shelley has worked with Inscape since 2016 as a solo and duo Pop-Up musician with Tiff Norchick at various Tasmanian Health Service Southern locations.

www.shellsentertainment.com.au

Bec is an artist preoccupied with plants, people, and places. She trained in Fine Arts, Environmental Design and Horticulture. 

She works in a cross-disciplinary approach, core to her practice is drawing, listening, collaborating, responding to site, context, and materiality. 

Bec was one of successful applicants to take part in the Care Through Creativity residencies for 2021/22.

Bec now works regularly as an artist doing rounds with her garden/art-making trolley at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

www.becstevens.net

Rebecca is a practicing artist, working across the fields of art, craft and public art design. In 2007 she was awarded a Masters Degree in Fine Arts and has received numerous public art commissions and arts grants.

Her glass and stainless steel sculpture, and more recently printmaking have been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally. In Tasmania she is represented by Handmark Gallery.

Rebecca has a 20 year history of working in aged care, disabilities and more recently allied health. Her current role is Art Tutor at the Community Rehabilitation Unit running the Art as Therapy program.

She is passionate about how art can support and enhance people’s health and recovery.

Learn more about Rebecca’s practice

Helen Swain lives and works in Lutruwita/Tasmania on the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington.

Helen has been a performer in Theatre in Education, worked in Community Theatre, was a High School English teacher and for many years taught English as Another Language with new Migrant and Refugee arrivals.

She is currently a Poet in Residence with Inscape Arts working in the public health sector. Celebrating Home (Five Islands Press) is her third book of poetry.

Alyssa Bermudez studied illustration and animation at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She is an illustrator, designer, art teacher and produced her first graphic novel in 2021.

Her illustrations can be found on fabric and fashion, in magazines, books and even on stage with Terrapin Puppet Theatre.

Alyssa has worked with Inscape as a LifeScape artist.

www.alyssabermudezart.com

Allan is a celebrated Tasmanian Aboriginal Artist and printmaker whose artwork has been sold around the world.

Allan’s visual vocabulary encompasses the land, the flora, and fauna around him, and he expresses these emblems of his past and present through exquisite compositions and forms of echidnas, leaves, ants, snakes, birds.

Allan was one of successful applicants to take part in the Care Through Creativity residencies for 2021/22.

www.blackantart.com.au