02/09/2026
🌸 Come and help our community artwork bloom at ArtBeat 2026 🌸
I’m so excited to be bringing a community art project to the ArtBeat Music and Arts Festival at Gold Coast University Hospital on Friday 9 October.
On the day, I’ll have a large community artwork ready and waiting for YOU to help bring it to life.
Everyone who visits will be invited to add a flower. 🌼
You can paint your flower, or you can add words to a flower sharing something that helps your mind bloom — perhaps family, friendship, music, creativity, nature, sleep, laughter, reading, your pets… whatever it is for you.
Throughout the day, every individual flower will be added to the artwork until together we’ve created one beautiful, blooming piece of community art. 🌸🌻🌿
There’s absolutely no artistic ability needed. Your flower can be colourful, messy, simple, detailed, painted or filled with words. It’s your little contribution to something we’re creating together.ArtBeat celebrates creativity and the voices of people with lived experience of mental illness, while helping to challenge stigma and celebrate connection, creativity and recovery.
📅 Friday 9 October 2026
⏰ 11am–2pm
📍 Gold Coast University Hospital rear parklands
Come and find me, add your flower and help us show all the different things that make our minds bloom. 🌸
I cannot wait to see what this looks like when hundreds of individual flowers come together. ❤️