Wild. Life. Exhibition - Benevolent Living, Rockhampton 2024. 

Ward's 2024 body of work aptly named Wild. Life see’s Ward painting animals as mediators of expressing the human experience with the view to explore social issues through a passive, yet amusing, whimsical lens; encouraging the viewer to let their imagination run wild. 

 

Wild. Life. includes painting and sensory installation explores the effects that Dementia and memory loss has on families, and to offer a respite from the negative connotations of this disease, and instead highlight moments in time to celebrate joy, curiosity and happiness.  After all, we all know that ‘laughter is the best medicine’.