A six-month supply of paintings and other wall-hung art is being dropped off at the Kathleen Kilgour Centre today as the centre prepares for a unique opening this week.

Saleable works by seven artists will be hung on the walls of the centre for the next six months before being rotated with work from another seven artists.

The Kathleen Kilgour Centre. Photo: Supplied.

The scheme is being organised by the Kathleen Kilgour Centre Charitable Trust, in collaboration with creative Tauranga, which has located the artists taking part.

Creative Tauranga acting general manager Jennifer Pearson says the centre has 15 walls, all of them white, with many of the artists in the first tranche having more than one piece to hang.

She mentioned the new exhibition idea while presenting the Creative Tauranga report to the city council monitoring committee.

It offers the artists free exhibition space with the possibility of sale for selected works. The centre is visited by between 20-30 cancer patients each day, she says. The exhibition opens on Wednesday.

The Kathleen Kilgour centre provides radiation oncology procedures to both public and privately funded patients.

The $35 million facility was opened in September 2014, and was established by private investors, in partnership with the Bay of Plenty District Health board.