Jermy Pang (she/her)
Elyssa Sykes-Smith is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in sculpture, installation, performance, and public art, with a focus on socially engaged projects, education, and health research.
Lives/Works on
Bidjigal | Dharug | Dharawal Country
Professional role/s
Affiliations
Arts
Visual arts; Crafts; Literary Arts
Arts health role/s
Healthcare Professional; Arts-informed Health Researcher
Jermy (she/her) is a deaf clinician-researcher working in hearing health, with a particular interest in how young people who are deaf or hard of hearing move through key life transitions. Arts-based approaches are woven through her research as a way of slowing down, paying closer attention, and making room for stories that are felt as much as spoken. She is drawn to the arts for their capacity to support reflection, connection, and wellbeing, both in research and in everyday life.
Outside of work, creativity is part of family life and daily ritual, offering shared time, immersion, and space to breathe.
Jermy values the Arts and Health Network NSW as a place of kinship and shared learning, where creativity is recognised as a vital way of caring for ourselves and one another.