Leah King Smith, William Yang, Brown Council and Sam Leach are among 30 leading Australian artists who have created new works for the Windows on Pain campaign.
Painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and installation and video works will take pain beyond familiar stereotypes. Some artists are collaborating with people with severe pain.
This exhibition is a stimulating and imaginative creative response to the experience of pain - physical, emotional or the pain of loss, grief, depression or dispossession.
Exhibitions will be held at Carriageworks in Redfern 4-11 May, then tour to Ewart Gallery in Willoughby 12-18 May, Gosford Regional Art Gallery 20-30 May, and Parramatta Riverside Theatre 1-10 June.
The artworks will be auctioned at the AGNSW on 12 June 2009 to raise money for the Pain Management Research Institute, Sydney, a leading world institute for research and treatment of severe persistent pain. One in five working age Australian experience this debilitating pain.
Other artists include: Sheila Annis, Yvonne Boag, Tom Carment, Patricia Casey, Toby Forrester Clack, Damien Kamholtz, Wendy Kelly, Annie Kennedy, Sam Leach, Michael Leunig, Barbara Licha, Mai Long, Jude Rae, Euan Macleod, Chia Moan, Denese Oates, Sue Rawlinson, Chris Shoji, Mitsuo Shoji, Andrew Sibley, Liz Shreeve, Ian Smith, Ann Thomson, Vince Vozzo, and Gosia Wlodarczak.
www.windowsonpain.org