The Centre for Creative Health (CCH) is a leader in the provision of best-practice art therapy, music therapy, diversional therapy, exhibition programs and other initiatives to improve health and wellbeing.
We’re proud to offer creative programs, therapy services and an ever changing range of exhibitions within and outside our hospital spaces to benefit patients and their families.
Our programs include a performance program, public art program, our expanding exhibition program and our school-based LEAF program.
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Art and music therapy as well as diversional therapy and our group art sessions are provided across South Australian hospitals for people in need.
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We create healing environments in dedicated galleries at many of the major South Australian hospitals, exhibiting the work of incredible local artists.
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As a charity of The Hospital Research Foundation Group, we receive no government funding and rely on the generosity of the South Australian community who support us – find out how you can join us.
Centre for Creative Health delivers a range of exhibitions and special projects to further highlight the healing role of art in a healthcare setting.
Jane Smeets, I See You, (detail), 2022. Photo courtesy the artist.
Jenny Berry, Ocean Garden, 2022. Image courtesy the artist.
Jingwei Bu, ‘Life Maps-intuition #7’, 2019. Photo courtesy the artist.
Megan Roodenrys, ‘Grass woods’, 2022. Photo courtesy the artist.
Kelly Batsiokis, Elvis the Gang-gang Cockatoo (detail), 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
Jessie Lumb, Sometimes you must make your own rainbows (blue-pink), detail, 2021-22. Image courtesy
Jane Smeets, I See You, (detail), 2022. Photo courtesy the artist.
Jenny Berry, Ocean Garden, 2022. Image courtesy the artist.
Jingwei Bu, ‘Life Maps-intuition #7’, 2019. Photo courtesy the artist.
Megan Roodenrys, ‘Grass woods’, 2022. Photo courtesy the artist.
Kelly Batsiokis, Elvis the Gang-gang Cockatoo (detail), 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
Jessie Lumb, Sometimes you must make your own rainbows (blue-pink), detail, 2021-22. Image courtesy
Artist Amy Joy Watson won the People’s Choice Prize for her work ‘Parachilna’.
The 2021 CCH Emerging Artist Prize was awarded to multi-disciplinary artist Ida Sophia (pictured) for her work ‘Regret’, an installation that included hundreds of written expressions of regret contributed by over 500 members of the public.
Congratulations to Jasmine Crisp, who won the $40,000 Main Prize for her oil painting of Ruby Allegra: They had to share (a portrait of Ruby).
