Hidden Creature Gallery

One of the many projects that moved back and forth between the front burner and the back burner during the Covid period, Arena’s collaboration with The Starlight Foundation is one that was especially sensitive to the changing public health landscape. However, through November and December, the opportunity finally presented itself where we were able to go the Monash Children’s Hospital and scope out a project that could be resident in their Starlight Express Room(SER).

It was pure joy to attend the SER, and watch the Captains Starlight work with children playing games, doing craft and quizzes and every wonderful thing you could imagine.

In response, we began developing a special version of Hidden Creature Gallery especially for the children visiting The Starlight Express Room to play with the Captains. It begins with all the beautiful things you would expect from Hidden Creature Gallery, but adds a magical space narrative, hypersonic speakers, hexaflexagons, and heaps of other cool things.

We will complete the development and delivery of our special version of Hidden Creature Gallery for the Starlight Foundation in the first half of 2023.

Artists:

Mark Egan

Jolyon James

Christian Leavesley

Image this page: Starlight

Children’s Foundation

Opposite page, Kelly Carpenter