Arts and Health Australia Awards for Excellence 2011
The annual Arts and Health Australia Awards for Excellence are designed to recognise and acknowledge the outstanding and innovative contribution of individuals and organisations leading the field of arts and health in Australia. They reflect the diversity of the field across policy, programs, practice, health promotion, education, research and the environment.
The Awards are embedded in the flow and process of the annual international conference The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, organised by national advocacy and networking organisation Arts and Health Australia.
Through the conference abstract selection process, submissions accepted for presentation at the conference are deemed to be of high calibre. Criteria for selection include originality, innovation, integrity and demonstrated success.
The 2011 Arts and Health Australia Awards for Excellence Judging Panel comprises:
- Molly Carlile, Awards Chair, Palliative Care Specialist, 2009 Award Winner: Health Promotion and the Arts
- Gabbie Carroll, Conference Chair, Arts and Health Australia
- David Doyle, Executive Director DADAA Inc, 2009 Award Winner: National Leadership Award
- Margret Meagher, Executive Director, Arts and Health Australia
- Mike White, Research and Development Fellow in Arts in Health, Centre for Medical Humanities and St Chad's College, Univeristy of Durham: 2010 Award Winner: International Leadership in Arts and Health
- Dr Peter Wright, Senior Lecturer, Arts Education and Research Methods; Academic Chair, Research and postgraduate Studies, School of Education, Murdoch University, WA; 2010 Award Winner: Arts and Health Research
The recipients were as follows:
- Arts and Health in Primary and Acute Care
- Art for the people/Art by the People – The New Laguna Honda, San Francisco
Sharon Woodworth - The Arts and Community Health
- Busting Cancer: promoting screening and early detection of women’s cancer in Western Sydney through the arts
Kerrie Noonan - Arts and Health in Regional and Rural Australia
- A Partnership in Practice
Tracey Callinan and Christine McMillan - Health Promotion and the Arts
- Just One Less Social Sculpture Project
Kim McConville - Arts and Aboriginal Health
- Through our mothers’ eyes – Participant perspectives from the Gomeroi gaaynggal program
Kym Rae - Medical Humanities and Education
- Art and Health: interating Art Humanities into health education of undergraduate health science students in rural/remote Australia
Paul Bennett & James Giddey - Architecture, Design and the Healthcare Environment
- Integrating Art in the New Hospital – Two Case Studies, Two Approaches – Mater Mothers’ Hospitals in Brisbane and the Robina Hospital Expansion project on the Gold Coast
Anthony Ogden and Chris Richardson - Mental Health and the Arts
- Arts and Health Strategy, Orange Health Service
Meg Simpson and Gabriella Hegyes - Social Inclusion through the Arts
- Findings: The Story of the Lost Generation Project
Simone Flavelle and Wendy Cox - Creative Ageing
- “Grandpa Grandma Memory boxes” – An Art exhibition and sharing of art intervention methods for elderly with memory loss
Evelyna Liang Kan - Arts and Health Public Programs offered by Galleries, Museums and Performing Arts Organisations
- Slow Art and artmed
National Gallery of Australia – Peter Naumann, Head of Education & Public Programs: Recognition of Contribution by Adriane Boag for Art & Dementia Programs in Australia - Outstanding Innovation
- Creative Ageing in the UK including Carer’s programs
Alice Thwaite - Outstanding Contribution to International Arts and Health Practice
- What kind of old do I want to be and what kind of world do I want to grow older in?
Dominic Campbell - National Leadership in Arts and Health
- Kim McConville
- International Leadership in Arts and Health
- Clive Parkinson
The Awards trophy is a boxed, handcrafted pen, made from Australian timbers, by Ian Dorney who discovered pen making while grappling with depression and in the process discovered his talent and recovered his health.