Residencies
and Projects
Creative Practice in Health Settings
Inscape supports professional artists to explore and evolve their creative practice within various healthcare settings, working in collaboration with patients, staff and visitors.
The Roy Fagan Centre
Artist Bec Stevens engages residents through plant-based artmaking and a mobile garden trolley, creating moments of reflection and connection.
The Community Rehabilitation unit (CRU)
The CRU offers a multidisciplinary outpatient service for people who have experience medical conditions that requires rehabilitation.
Here we support 15 day residencies with different art forms. Recent residencies included:
Poet Helen Swain wrote poems, shared poems, supported clients and staff to write poems and produced a booklet from the work.
A dance residency with Felicity Bott, professional dancer, choreographer and artistic director, guided clients in dance, dance making and facilitated showings and workshops of work.
New Norfolk District Hospital Residency
New Norfolk District Hospital, a 24-bed sub-acute facility in the Derwent Valley, has welcomed Inscape artists as part of its creative health initiatives.
Musicians and visual artists Tiff Norchick and Jacqui Dawborn brought warmth and connection through Monday morning sessions of live music, painting and drawing - offering gentle creative engagement for both patients and staff in a clinical setting.
Royal Hobart Hospital
Care Through Creativity: Artist Residencies at RHH
Launched in 2021 by Inscape Tasmania, Care Through Creativity invited artists into the Royal Hobart Hospital for 25-day residencies to explore and respond to the hospital environment through their creative practice.
These immersive residencies encouraged meaningful connections with staff, patients, and families resulting in unique artistic outcomes.
The program was supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the RHH Donation Fund.
Artists Allan Mansell, Bec Stevens and Claire Pendrigh were selected for these transformative residencies.
AT REHAB NOW
I stand in the doorway
between the world and my pain
but like a caterpillar
I will emerge from the dark
to stretch my delicate wings
Helen Swain, poet, wrote and shared poems, supported clients and staff to write their own, and brought it all together in a published booklet.
Help Artists Create in Care Spaces
When you donate to Inscape, you're backing artists who bring fresh eyes and creative energy into hospitals and health centres.
Your support enables artist residencies and hands-on projects that connect with patients, staff, and families - turning sterile spaces into places of shared humanity. These programs aren’t just about art - they’re about presence, connection, and recovery.
Every donation helps make more of this possible.