About Pam
creative health curator
My work sits at the intersection of arts& culture, health & wellbeing programs and participation. I develop creative frameworks that support wellbeing across healthcare, community, work and organisational settings.
I am interested in how creativity can help us navigate change. How we move beyond overwhelm. How we interrupt the noise of everyday life long enough to encounter other possibilities, reconnect with ourselves and engage more fully with others.
Compassion guides my approach, not only as empathy but as a shared, active presence. Creativity becomes a way of finding the common ground between people.
Through creative practice, we begin to respond differently:
with awareness rather than reaction
with imagination rather than fear
with connection rather than isolation
And in doing so, we reshape the way we experience life.
From this place, something begins to shift.
CREATIVE HEALTH PRACTICE
My relational practice explores the spaces between art, care and human connection.
Working across exhibition-making, participatory programmes and creative health initiatives, I create experiences that bring people together through reflection, dialogue and shared creative processes.
Drawing on a background in nursing, design, fine art and digital arts, I curate and develop projects that respond to real contexts across healthcare, community, workplace and cultural settings.
ARTIST PRACTICE
My personal practice directs and sustains all my projects.
It begins with lived experience.
With moments of rupture.
With the need to make sense, to reconnect, to find a way through.
I have used the stages of transition through my own personal journey and let it be the teacher. Across writing, walking, digital narratives, painting and collage, I work with processes that hold transition.
I explore my relational practice through different languages: art, touch, care, curation, participation and the creation of holding spaces.
At its heart, this work is concerned with encounter. How do we create conditions where people feel safe enough to pause, express themselves, connect with others and engage more fully with their experience?
My practice moves between exhibition-making, participatory art programmes, creative health initiatives and therapeutic environments, often sitting at the intersection of culture, healthcare, education and public life.
Rather than presenting art as something separate from everyday experience, I am interested in its capacity to support reflection, dialogue and transformation. Through collaborative processes, participants become active contributors, shaping experiences through their own stories, perspectives and lived realities.
Whether working within a hospital, community setting, cultural institution or organisation, the intention remains the same: to create thoughtful spaces where creativity becomes a pathway to connection, meaning and wellbeing.
my creative health practice...
Drawing from dreams, lived experience and feminine archetypes, this work explores cycles of transformation, renewal and emergence. Gold leaf appears as a trace of what survives change, while charcoal, oil and earth-based materials anchor the work in the physical experience of becoming.
It was 2018, during a period of profound change, walking became a daily practice. Through photography, drawing and journalling, I began recording fragments of experience, thoughts and dreams. Writing and walking became a release, a form of witnessing. What started as a way of coping gradually became a way of paying attention. A practice of self and ultimately, a practice of encounter.
walking & encounter
This body of work unfolds through a dialogue with loss, transformation and renewal. Through the gathering, alteration and reconfiguration of natural materials, I explore how relationships continue to evolve through absence, memory and change.
From the photocollage series Just keep walking: exercises in continuity
Oil seeps into its surface
Charcoal presses into its grain
A passage opens
material exploration
From the collection Return of Venus
From the collection Between you & me
my own artistic practice...
audio-visual practice
Exploring moving image, sound and sensory experience as tools for reflection, containment and wellbeing
My audiovisual practice explores how moving image and sound can create spaces of reflection, presence and emotional connection. Drawing on nature-based metaphors and sensory engagement, these works investigate how audiovisual environments can support wellbeing, particularly within healthcare and therapeutic contexts. Developed through artistic research, they form part of an ongoing inquiry into encounter, care and the experience of transition.
Sanctuary
An immersive audiovisual installation exploring the experience of inhabiting an unfamiliar body.
When illness, loss or transition disrupts our sense of self, the body can begin to feel like unfamiliar terrain. Sanctuaryresponds to this experience by creating a temporary space of containment and reflection.
Using the sea as a central metaphor, image and sound invite participants into a slower rhythm where boundaries between body and landscape gradually soften. Attention shifts from external demands towards breath, presence and embodied awareness.
Originally presented as part of Propolis at Spazju Kreattiv, the work explores how audiovisual environments can function as spaces of encounter, reflection and care.
An immersive audiovisual installation exploring the experience of inhabiting an unfamiliar body.
When illness, loss or transition disrupts our sense of self, the body can begin to feel like unfamiliar terrain. Sanctuaryresponds to this experience by creating a temporary space of containment and reflection.
Using the sea as a central metaphor, image and sound invite participants into a slower rhythm where boundaries between body and landscape gradually soften. Attention shifts from external demands towards breath, presence and embodied awareness.
Originally presented as part of Propolis at Spazju Kreattiv, the work explores how audiovisual environments can function as spaces of encounter, reflection and care.
Deep Shelter
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