In acknowledging the ongoing and significant contribution of the arts on emotional psychological and physiological wellbeing within the health sector, there is much to be explored regarding the role of art beyond an arts therapy context. Focussing on the fine art genre, this presentation identifies and explores the strategies and roles that contemporary art can potentially play in foregrounding person-centred knowledge and insights as necessary information that reclaims subjectivity and the personal premise in expanding and contributing to a broader interdisciplinary understanding and approach/es to cancer care. Contemporary art is discussed in terms of being a catalyst for individual agency-formation, self-identity legacy-building through art making, resulting in artist-assisted exhibition and artist book outcomes. The latter seeks to empower individuals living with cancer as well as help cultivate socio-cultural health communities by making visible the learning opportunities from individual’s experiences with advanced cancer. Contemporary art can become a vehicle for advocating for personal legacy, family connectivity as part of, as well as, beyond the cancer journey. Further visual art studies on individual narratives across multimodal forms can potentially lead to new insights on more interdisciplinary and holistic treatment regarding cancer care.