Inscape Tasmania

04/05/2026

🟨 Art Together - Claire Pendrigh 🟨

This week, Claire’s colourful collaborative artworks and hanging mobiles are in the cube in Wellington Court. Claire will be in the cube painting from 12 - 2pm today.

Inscape artist Claire Pendrigh works with hospital patients to express, record and celebrate their stories. Claire often works at the bed-side, making art with, for and about patients in one-on-one sessions, sometimes combining elements from these sessions into larger collaborative artworks. These artworks enrich the hospital environment with joyful and colourful scenes depicting participant’s hopes, dreams and lived experiences.

📆 4 - 10 May
⏰Activation: 5 May, 12 - 2pm
📍Wellington Court

Inscape Out is part of program “Inside Out”, exhibiting art in public spaces in Hobart.

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27/04/2026

🟨INSCAPE OUT🟨
Inscape Artist Rebecca Coote’s collaborative prints are in the cube this week!

In 2025, Rebecca worked with staff and patients on wards at the Royal Hobart Hospital to create artworks that would brighten and enliven the ward. Staff worked with Rebecca during 3 lunchtime Gel Plate Printing workshops to create a series of colorful prints using acrylic paint, stencils and dried leaves which Rebecca later collaged and framed.

📆27 April - 3 May
📍Wellington Court

Inscape Out is part of program “Inside Out”, exhibiting art in public spaces in Hobart.

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22/04/2026

Inscape artist Tanya Maxwell whittling in the cube yesterday. Did you see her?

Multi-disciplinary Art Practitioner, facilitator and consultant, Tanya Maxwell has a history working in Arts and Health as a therapeutic physical theatre performer and sculptural maker spanning 20 years.

Her Social Arts roles encompass Clown Doctor, Consultant, Artist, Facilitator and Mentor with Humour Foundation, Inscape Tasmania, Terrapin Puppet Theatre and ARTelier Tasmania.

She strives to support accessible allied health management choices and takes a respectful approach providing creative, participatory interventions to support socio-emotional well being in healthcare, education and community settings.

You can see her works in Wellington Court until Sunday.

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20/04/2026

🟨INSCAPE OUT🟨
Inscape Artist and Facilitator Tanya Maxwell is in the cube this week!
Coming Out of the Woodwork.
Whittling on the Draw Horse
Weaving and Sculptural Assemblage.

The aroma and texture of natural materials nurture a feeling of grounding and lightness and invite art experiences and conversation which can be profoundly connecting in the clinical space. Gathering and working with natural fibres is an intentional practice to appreciate and reciprocate care for the land, water and sky that sustain us.

We acknowledge enduring care for country of First Nations people.

Activation - Whittling on the Draw Horse
📆Wednesday 22 April
⏰ 12-1.30pm
📍Wellington Court

Inscape Out is part of program “Inside Out”, exhibiting art in public spaces in Hobart.

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15/04/2026

Visit inscape poet Helen Swain in Wellington Court today from 11:30am - 1:30pm!

Helen will write poems in response to people's stories, echoing her work with patients across hospital and clinical settings.

Helen Swain is a poet who has worked on residency projects with Inscape at the Community Rehabilitation Unit and the Roy Fagan Centre. Her poetry has won various awards and been published in two books and a number of poetry magazines.

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14/04/2026

Inscape Out features Inscape's artists and their collaborations with patients and staff. The series of InsideOUT installations will give voice to remarkable stories and showcase professional artists who work in health settings.

🟨Live Poetry Activation with Helen Swain🟨
The first activation will feature poet Helen Swain inviting the public into a process typically experienced at the bedside. Helen will write poems in response to people's stories, echoing her work with patients across hospital and clinical settings.

Helen Swain is a poet who has worked on residency projects with Inscape at the Community Rehabilitation Unit and the Roy Fagan Centre. Her poetry has won various awards and been published in two books and a number of poetry magazines.

📆 15 & 16 April
⏰11:30 am - 1:30 pm
📍Wellington Court

Inscape Out is part of program “Inside Out”, exhibiting art in public spaces in Hobart.

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14/04/2026

Inscape Out features Inscape’s artists and their collaborations with patients and staff. The series of InsideOUT installations will give voice to remarkable stories and showcase professional artists who work in health settings.

🟨Live Poetry Activation with Helen Swain🟨
The first activation will feature poet Helen Swain inviting the public into a process typically experienced at the bedside. Helen will write poems in response to people’s stories, echoing her work with patients across hospital and clinical settings.

Helen Swain is a poet who has worked on residency projects with Inscape at the Community Rehabilitation Unit and the Roy Fagan Centre. Her poetry has won various awards and been published in two books and a number of poetry magazines.

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Inscape Out is part of program “Inside Out”, exhibiting art in public spaces in Hobart.

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30/03/2026

~POP UP PERFORMANCE WITH WILL~

The Royal Hobart Hospital’s foyer is transformed by the sound of Will Parsell’s guitar. You can feel the mood shift as the sound of live music drifts through the hospital - from busy and clinical, to joyful and curious.

If you would like to see more music in health care settings, please consider making a donation at www.inscape.org.au/donate

26/03/2026

“The art often does the work. When artists bring their practice into a hospital space, it opens moments of connection that can be incredibly powerful.” - Leigh Tesch, Inscape Tas

🎧 Executive Officer and co-founder of Inscape, Dr Leigh Tesch, in conversation with Laura Purcell on the Creative Rumble podcast.

Listen here: https://www.creativerumble.com.au/show-notes/ep-30-bonus-inscape-tasmania-and-the-power-of-arts-in-hospitals

📸 Tiff Norchick playing her harp at the Royal Hobart Hospital, photo by Laura Purcell.

19/03/2026

Stay tuned for InscapeOUT!

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We are excited to announce our InsideOUT artists for this year:
• Inscape Tas (photo: Inscape Artist in Residence, Patient collaboration with Bec Stevens. Photo Bec Stevens)
• Nunami Sculthorpe-Green (photo: Jillian Mundy)
• Gabbee Stolp (photo: Nina Hamilton)
• Rob Braslin
Stay tuned to see what they create!

06/03/2026

~ PAINTING THE VIEW ~

“It’s just so relaxing, it doesn’t even really matter what it looks like in the end”.

This week artist clairependrigh worked with patients in the Royal Hobart Hospital, making paintings inspired by the views we can see from the hospital windows.

You can support us to do this work by making a donation at our website www.inscape.org.au

13/02/2026

~ EXHIBITION BY ONE OF OUR INSCAPE ARTISTS ~
Inscape Artist Rebecca Coot is part of a beautiful exhibition at Social Gallery in Salamanca. It’s the last weekend to see it, so make sure you check it out!

All three artists have an active engagement and connection with their environment which can be seen through the different mediums of painting, drawing and sculpture. They convey on canvas, paper or through three dimensional works a common thread, a passion for where they live.