"Usually, my life centres around medical problems & trauma, but to get a positive message that something that I had done had sparked an interest in my art & voice felt like a door to a brighter future had opened"
- Award Winner 2023
“A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, & a hell of a lot more interesting life.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert
"The STARTS Award has been life changing for me. I have not just made friends, I have made family."
- Award Winner 2023
"Making art can enable people to take greater Responsibility for their own health & well-being … & improve the quality of life by bringing greater joy"
