CYMHS Proxima Reception Artwork
Date
Categories
Illustration
Collaboration
Healthcare
Brief
Gold Coast Health’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) was moving into a new purpose-built facility at Proxima. Through Liveworm Studio, the brief called for a reception artwork to welcome young people aged 0–25, along with families, carers and staff. It needed to be a 210 × 140 cm digital file, designed for canvas printing and a Tasmanian Oak float frame. Colours had to align with the interior palette so the space wouldn’t feel overstimulating. Suggested themes included the “A Story of Water: Nerang River to the Sea” narrative and identity and diversity in community. I partnered with Juliann Chen on the concept. She drew the animal silhouettes and I made the background. We chose the colour palette, gradients and textures together.
Outcome
The result is a digital artwork that plays with visual conventions, in line with the brief’s focus on inclusivity. The Nerang River runs diagonally across the canvas as a cream line rather than blue. A rippled green hinterland and branching coral share the same frame, and native land and sea animals are woven through both sides instead of staying in their usual habitats. Together they tell the client’s “A Story of Water” narrative while reflecting identity and diversity in community. It was pitched as a welcoming focal point for young people, families, carers and staff arriving at the service, but wasn’t selected.
Process
The concept built on one of Juliann’s early ideas, a wave seen from its wet and dry sides, with the Nerang River dividing land from sea. After the first draft, the studio’s creative directors found the fan coral too thin and out of step with the Bird of Paradise opposite it. Its branches were enlarged and softened, and a ripple texture replaced the flower. Later rounds added gradients and grain, toned down reds that could read as a forest fire, and moved the whale to the centre as a focal point.
Process
The concept built on one of Juliann’s early ideas, a wave seen from its wet and dry sides, with the Nerang River dividing land from sea. After the first draft, the studio’s creative directors found the fan coral too thin and out of step with the Bird of Paradise opposite it. Its branches were enlarged and softened, and a ripple texture replaced the flower. Later rounds added gradients and grain, toned down reds that could read as a forest fire, and moved the whale to the centre as a focal point.
CYMHS Proxima Reception Artwork
Date
Categories
Illustration
Collaboration
Healthcare
Brief
Gold Coast Health’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) was moving into a new purpose-built facility at Proxima. Through Liveworm Studio, the brief called for a reception artwork to welcome young people aged 0–25, along with families, carers and staff. It needed to be a 210 × 140 cm digital file, designed for canvas printing and a Tasmanian Oak float frame. Colours had to align with the interior palette so the space wouldn’t feel overstimulating. Suggested themes included the “A Story of Water: Nerang River to the Sea” narrative and identity and diversity in community. I partnered with Juliann Chen on the concept. She drew the animal silhouettes and I made the background. We chose the colour palette, gradients and textures together.
Outcome
The result is a digital artwork that plays with visual conventions, in line with the brief’s focus on inclusivity. The Nerang River runs diagonally across the canvas as a cream line rather than blue. A rippled green hinterland and branching coral share the same frame, and native land and sea animals are woven through both sides instead of staying in their usual habitats. Together they tell the client’s “A Story of Water” narrative while reflecting identity and diversity in community. It was pitched as a welcoming focal point for young people, families, carers and staff arriving at the service, but wasn’t selected.
Process
The concept built on one of Juliann’s early ideas, a wave seen from its wet and dry sides, with the Nerang River dividing land from sea. After the first draft, the studio’s creative directors found the fan coral too thin and out of step with the Bird of Paradise opposite it. Its branches were enlarged and softened, and a ripple texture replaced the flower. Later rounds added gradients and grain, toned down reds that could read as a forest fire, and moved the whale to the centre as a focal point.
Process
The concept built on one of Juliann’s early ideas, a wave seen from its wet and dry sides, with the Nerang River dividing land from sea. After the first draft, the studio’s creative directors found the fan coral too thin and out of step with the Bird of Paradise opposite it. Its branches were enlarged and softened, and a ripple texture replaced the flower. Later rounds added gradients and grain, toned down reds that could read as a forest fire, and moved the whale to the centre as a focal point.
