About the artist

Patricia Stewart is a prolific artist, a performer, a song writer, and an opera singer. Her artistic practice involves a stream of consciousness approach to drawing and creative expression. She considers creating art a 'tool for healing'.

'My passion is to share my experience, strength and hope with others. I have found art to be a unique tool, in that it has the potential to meet the needs of the traumatised soul', Patricia says.

About The DAX Centre

The Dax Centre provides artists with lived experience of mental health issues and opportunities for creative expression while fostering social change by expanding the public’s awareness of mental illness and breaking down stigma through art. The Centre is proudly part of SANE, Australia’s leading national mental health organisation for people with complex mental health issues and for the families and friends that support them.

It houses the heritage-listed Cunningham Dax Collection of art containing over 16,000 works which have all been created by people who have a lived experience of mental health issues and/or psychological trauma.

Patricia Stewart’s artworks have been featured in several exhibitions at The Dax Centre including the 2020 Child and Mother exhibition. Her artworks continue to be an important part of the Cunningham Dax Collection.