Your Creative Art Space

Explore your creativity at Arts for Health. We offer inclusive Hamilton art classes, art workshops, and a 5-day-a-week Open Studio space for all skill levels and abilities. While our Open Studios first priority is to supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged people, our Hamilton art classes, art workshops and access to our art exhibitions and competitions are open to everyone in the community. Whether you're looking to develop your skills, meet likeminded people, explore your artistic side, or simply have some fun, there is a place for you here at Arts for Health.

Join our Hamilton art classes

Open Studio

Monday - Friday

$5

Mon & Fridays 9am – 2.30pm
Tues/Wed/Thurs 9am – 3.30pm

Start your art making journey now. For those over 15yrs with basic materials available.

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Journey Through Art

Monday Mornings

$165

Starting 22nd July 9.30am - 11.30am 9 x lessons

Learn the basics of art including drawing, painting and sculpting, ideal for beginning & returning artists of any ability level.

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Beginners Acrylics

Monday Mornings

$165

Starts Monday 5th August
9.30am - 11.30am 6 x sessions

Hamilton Art Classes designed for starting acrylic and beginner artists with your tutor Jennifer.

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Watercolour Class

Tuesday Mornings

$165

Starts Tuesday 6th August
9.30am - 11.30am 6 x sessions

Hamilton Art Classes for beginners & returning artists in a small class of 8 people.

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Mindfulness Art Therapy for Adults

Wednesday Mornings

$165

Starts Wednesday 24th July
9.30am - 11.30am 9 x sessions

Creative art workshops helping you grow as a person through wellbeing.

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Childrens Art Therapy

Thursday Afternoons

$85

Starts Thursday 25th July
4pm-5:30pm 10 x sessions

Our focus this term is children aged 8yrs to 12yrs for personal growth and creative well being.

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Ladies Friday Art Morning

Friday Mornings

$90

Starts Friday 26th July
9.30am - 11.30am 10 x sessions

An independent space for creating art, making friends, with light refreshments.

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Mindfulness Art Therapy for Adults

Friday Afternoons

$165

Starts Friday 26th July
12:30pm - 2:30pm
9 x sessions

Art workshops to help you grow as a person using your creativity for wellbeing.

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Professional Development Opportunities

Our Hamilton art classes provide an ideal opportunity for staff to unwind, reduce stress, and enhance their creativity. Watch out for our art workshops for professional development, suited for those working in the Allied Health professions, OR if you are looking for creative based well-being experiences for your team, we can organise that for you too.

Working with anxious teens creatively

25th July 1-3pm $145

Delivered by Arts Therapist Donna Ewert and Cass Hendry. This is a hands on interactive workshop with creative materials supplied.

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Working with toxic anxiety in adults creatively

A hybrid session with a mix of in-person & remote participants

Limited to 8 attendees
Cost $145
Details to be confirmed

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Social Media and Children - A creative approach to wellness

A hybrid session with a mix of in-person & remote participants.

Limited to 8 attendees
Cost and details to be confirmed
Details to be confirmed

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Testimonials

Arts for Health is a Hamilton creative art space and is somewhere I can go and paint when I don’t have the motivation to manage that in my own house. It helps me leave the house knowing I have somewhere I will feel safe where I am part of a community that supports each other.

Emma Billingham

Arts for health provides great support to the community. As a new artist I find that there is a sense of belonging, ownership and acceptance that makes me feel calm, satisfied and motivated.

Kim McEvilly

I felt art therapy was a great way to express my feelings about life in general and helped me to stay healthy.

Phillip Longley

Testimonials

I highly recommend the art therapy class at Arts for Health, my local Hamilton art workshop. I attended hour sessions once a week for six weeks and experienced some significant emotional shifts. My understanding of how my emotions affect my physical being are decidedly more clear and I am in much closer touch with the cause and effect on myself. Of significance is the return of past levels of confidence and that I am in charge of my whole self and my choices.

Jennifer H

I like coming to Arts for Health as it helps me to get to know new people in the community. Since I started coming to art last year, I have felt more confident and happy. I come to art because I like coming into the community for health and wellbeing.

Lisa Tawhai

It has helped me get back into drawing and learning to paint. It’s allowed me to meet new people all of whom are very helpful and supportive. It’s helped me feel more creative and grow more confidence in my artistic abilities.

Elaine Simons