ARCHIVE NEWS & EVENTS

"LEAD US TO A CANVAS AND WE WILL PAINT YOU A PICTURE"
A new art exhibition at the Macular Treatment Centre/ Retinal Unit, Manchester Eye Hospital

This exhibition titled Lead us to a canvas and we will paint you a picture showcases the work of three artists, two brothers and a sister from the same family. While it is not uncommon for creative talent to blossom within one family, Geoff and Charles Macdonald and Jean Howarth, all suffer from the eye condition PXE (pseudoxanthoma elasticum).

PXE is a heritable connective tissue disorder. Affecting one in 100,000 people it causes calcification of connective tissue to occur in various places in the body, especially the skin, eyes and arteries. While PXE has seriously affected the eyesight of the three artists this exhibition reveals how their creativity and passion for painting remains undaunted.

Both the Macular Treatment Centre and the Retinal Unit have been transformed by the vibrant images. Jean and Geoff are both registered as blind as their central vision is missing, they paint by looking out of the corners of their eyes. Jean uses a magnifying glass to paint her delicate watercolours, and both Jean and Geoff's images of the landscape come from memory. Charles, a patient at the Retinal Unit, has some central vision in one eye that makes it difficult to judge distance. He is a gifted landscape painter and together with Carl Buttner has instigated this exhibition.

The three artists, who regularly show their work in galleries in England, thought that patients, their family, friends and staff might have their visits to the hospital brightened up by viewing the pictures which are placed in various areas throughout the Retinal Unit. Charles, Geoff and Jean are keen for people who are visiting the unit to enjoy their artwork. They also hope to encourage others who have just developed eyesight problems to never give up trying.

Their artwork is on display in both areas from Monday 11 December.

If you would like more information about this exhibition please contact Bronwyn Platten, Art Projects Manager for Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust at Lime Tel: 0161256 4389 or by Email: bronwyn@limeart.org

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Lime and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust have been shortlisted (one of four projects nationally) for the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2007 'Best Use of Art in Healthcare Facilities'

This nomination is for the partnership Environmental Arts Programme involving patients, staff and visitors at the new Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre

Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony in London on the 8th of November 2007

Judge's Selection Criteria for the Award Catagory: Best in Class for Project - Patient Environment 'Use of Art in Healthcare Facilities'

'An outstanding project that demonstrates the development of a highly innovative and effective arts programme that engages with staff, patients and visitors to create a positive place for work and recouperation.

Artists: Martin Donlin, Rob Vale, Lesley Fallais, Gill Brett. arts programme coordinated by Helen Kitchen, Lime.

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LIME'S JUICE TO PUT THE SQUEEZE ON TEENAGE DRINKING IN MANCHESTER

Lime has been awarded a major grant by Comic Relief to run a project addressing alcohol misuse in young people in Greater Manchester.

Lime, the Cultural Development Team of the Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust, will receive £87,500 over three years to finance the young people-led project.

Called Juice, the project will involve 150 young people from Greater Manchester who are experiencing alcohol misuse. It will encourage peer-learning and film-production skills and will explore the issues through drama, writing, music and film production.

Throughout the three year project, young people aged under 21 will work alongside arts and education professionals to create a film and workshop pack, which will then reach a wider audience through schools and youth centres. The aim of the pack, which will include lesson/activity plans, is to initiate discussion and inform health/lifestyle choices around the issue of alcohol misuse beyond the life of the project.

The project builds upon Lime's Manchester City Council-funded public health creative programme and takes its lead from the Council's Alcohol Strategy. The strategy states that alcohol consumption amongst young people in the north west is higher than the national average.

Brian Chapman, director of Lime said: "Creative arts such as film-making, drama, visual arts and music build self-confidence and skill-base in formal and informal educational settings. By exploring alternatives to drinking through peer education, self-expression and informed choices, we hope the project will impact on the numbers of young people misusing alcohol.

"By working closely with hard-to-reach young people, we will also produce a relevant and authentic product that communicates with credibility to a wider young audience".

The Juice project forms part of Lime's Culture and Health Strategy for Manchester, which is currently supported by the City Council Joint Health Unit and Cultural Strategy Team.

Alcohol misuse is a major issue for not only the NHS (costs £12 billion/year) but for society as a whole. Alcohol misuse costs the UK an estimated £20 billion per year (Gov. Strategy Unit 2003).

*Lime needs all the support it can get from health and health promotion professionals, the Manchester PCT and GPs to advocate and fund this innovative direction in creative public health. If you can offer support or wish to know more please contact Brian Chapman (Director) brian@limeart.org or Kim Wiltshire (Project Manager) kim@limeart.org at Lime.

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Double measure of reality for alcohol education in Manchester secondaries
Radical KS4 resource pack launches 20 September 2007

A groundbreaking new KS4 alcohol resource launches in Manchester on Thursday 20 September 2007.

Losing It is a film made entirely by young people from across Manchester that explores their attitudes to alcohol misuse. The film is intended to be used as part of a six-week PHSE course and is accompanied by creative lesson plans and worksheets. Following a red carpet premiere at a city centre cinema, to be attended by the region's education and health professionals, the film and resource pack will be distributed to every Manchester secondary school.

Kim Wiltshire, project manager for arts and health charity Lime, who are behind the project, said: "Manchester and the north west have some of the highest teenage alcohol misuse problems in Europe. This resource is intended to dig a little bit deeper with young people to help them think about why they might use alcohol, why those around them might use alcohol and where they can go for help.

"Because everything in the stories has come from the young people we worked with, the intention is that through peer education pupils will have the opportunity to discuss their own emotional and social issues around alcohol misuse, rather than being faced with a range of facts and figures they may have no real interest in."

Holly's Story is one of two distinct tales that make up Losing It. It is about a 15-year-old girl who drinks with her friends to forget her difficult home life. Victoria Jordan, 14, goes to North Manchester High School for Girls and plays Holly.

"I can relate to many of the things Holly says and feels," she says. "I think she drinks to escape from her worries, and it's lucky she realises that she's got a problem. Making this film has definitely made us think about alcohol misuse, so I think it will be very powerful when it's shown in schools."

Lime working with Manchester Education Partnership identified that existing alcohol education resources consisted mainly of facts and figures games, often leaving little room for classroom discussion. The Losing It resource pack will serve as a pilot for a larger project, funded by Comic Relief. The next phase will see 150 young people across the whole of Greater Manchester work towards producing a film for KS3 pupils that will be offered to [every secondary school in Greater Manchester.

Arts and health charity Lime partnered on the project with Manchester Education Partnership, Eclypse, NHS Public Health Development, Zest, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Manchester Cultural Strategy Team.

Groups taking part in the project include the Young Travellers, Young Carers, Plant Hill Youth Group, LGYM, Manchester Foyer and Water Activity Centre

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Art brings together High School and Hospital

20 students from Newall Green High School have been working with a professional artist to create a work of art that will be permanently exhibited within Wythenshawe Hospital.

Artist Charlotte Brown has been working with the Year 7 students to create images based on the theme of 'Journeys'. A permanent framed display of the student\'s photographic artwork has today been installed on a prominent wall near Trust Headquarters and the students are absolutely delighted to have their work shown in such a public space.

The 'Journeys' project is part of a programme to improve the school experience for vulnerable young people and boost their self-confidence. The project was established by the school's Senior Manager who line manages the mentors, Sandra McGuire. Sandra explains: "We identified students who we felt would benefit from a project that would provide something outside ordinary lessons in a classroom setting, where the students could work together on an exciting project and feel proud to be representing the school by creating artwork for public display."

The students experimented with a variety of media, including painting, digital photography and collage and the project was designed to help the students take a closer look at things that had important meaning to them, their own identity and personal aspirations. By using the theme of 'Journeys' the students were able to make links with larger concepts such as a 'Journey through Life', 'Family history' and 'Journey through friendship'.

Artist Charlotte explains: "The theme of 'Journeys' was the starting point for the group to photograph their familiar surroundings, school environment, travel to and from school or other places. The students were encouraged to look up, down and closely at things that they may usually pass by and the images became a record of things that people would normally overlook - clouds in the sky, shadows in puddles, tree trunk, leaves or even litter. The resulting artwork is made up of the students individual photographs printed onto ordinary white household tiles." Helen Kitchen Arts Coordinator for Lime, "When the Artist showed me examples of students photographs I knew I had to find a space to exhibit them in the Hospital. There are a total of 80 tiles, each unique with an individual source of inspiration, which together create a large colourful collage, with fascinating and quirky details as the viewer looks more closely."

As part of the project, students visited Wythenshawe Hospital to see how the award-winning public art programme coordinated by LIME at the hospital enhances the healing environment and contributes to patients\' wellbeing. The new artwork, today unveiled by the Trust\'s Chairman Jeff Wilner, will be seen by the many thousands of patients and visitors that pass through the hospital each year. Jeff adds: "We're delighted with the final piece of artwork which is really inspiring. I know that the students have gained a great deal from this project, and I'd like to think that our patients and visitors will also benefit from this vibrant art installation."

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Lime POPPs Scheme

The Lime Arts and Health POPPs scheme was built on the success of the Pathways project ö a three year programme working with communities using creativity to explore issues around mental health and well being. Pathways was aimed at under 25s as well as over 50s, however with the POPPs scheme we could concentrate on rolling out creative sessions for older people across Manchester.

Creativity is accepted as being beneficial for mental health and well-being. For our older people's programme we decided to use dance & movement, drama, visual art & photography, creative writing & storytelling. There are multiple benefits to each art form, and by using professional artists in each area there is an assurance of not only high quality work, but real joy in producing the pieces.

We wanted to reach as many older people as possible, and be able to take time researching new ways of contacting harder to reach older people. One of the ways of doing this was to run a series of workshops on a Mobile Library van at two stops in North Manchester, something Lime and the Mobile Libraries have never done before, which resulted in a small photography exhibition on the van. We also worked with Community Resource Centres in Baguley and Openshaw, sheltered housing in Gorton, Collyhurst and Ancoats, as well as the Afro-Caribbean Care Group in Hulme. The scheme also helped us set up a new Performing Arts Community Group called Linkfour in Wythenshawe, in partnership with Studio One at St Andrew's Church ö this new community group are always on the look out for new members as well, so if you are interested please contact me on the email address below.

Due to the success of the scheme and the high demand we have had from groups asking for sessions, Lime is researching new funding streams to carry on the work in the community resource centres. We are helping the groups in the sheltered housing workshops to continue the sessions themselves, leaving workshop plans and ideas for future sessions with them once the project has finished.

If you would like any more information about Lime's Community Arts Programme, please contact Kim Wiltshire on kim@limeart.org

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Lime welcomes Chanje kunda
New Artist In Residence

Chanje Kunda, poet, writer, performer started in May 2008 as Artist in Residence with Lime. Since graduating Chanje Kunda has had a prolific writing career. She has produced several plays, a collection of poetry, a music CD and numerous articles for the press. Chanje's poetry has been featured in several anthologies and literary magazines and Radio. As a professional performance poet Chanje performs up and down the country including the Royal Albert Hall. She has worked with influential modern poets such as Benjamin Zephaniah, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn Sissay and has also represented UK talent at the Calabash Festival in Jamaica. Chanje aims to provide positive inspiration through the power of words. As well as developing her creative work Lime has secured an Arts Council Grant to enable her to research cultural diversity within the history of health. As part of Lime's partnership programme she will also forge links with the Manchester Museum and input into the New Hospitals Arts Programme in Central Manchester. Find out more about Chanje and her work at: www.afrique-performs.co.uk www.myspace.com/chanjekunda

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Another Creative First For Manchester
New Art for New Hospitals

Research shows that inspirational and beautiful hospital environments take the edge off pain and anxiety. An exciting new arts initiative taking place in Manchester is aiming to transform Central Manchester's new hospitals so that they do just that.

Led by the Director of Lime, Brian Chapman, Lime has developed an artistic vision for the new hospitals in conjunction with internationally known artist Ray Smith. Art commissions are now underway, funded through the Charities wing of the Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust. Sponsors are being sought to create more projects, especially for the new Children's hospital.

This is a £500m New Hospital Development in the cultural heart of the city. It is the largest PFI scheme outside London and the integrated arts programme will create a new landscape for the arts in healthcare on a scale never seen before.

The four new hospitals include a hospital for Children, hospitals for Adults and Women, and the new Eye hospital will be set in a landscaped gardens. Artistic commissions will include a major iconic work in the extensive Boulevard green space facing the four new hospitals. There will be interactive works, wall mounted and moving image works, three dimensional and tactile, works on glass, large and small scale installations.

This project is a unique opportunity to make positive and uplifting hospital environments and to forge enduring links between the Trust, the city's artistic communities and the local and broader communities of Manchester through working together creatively.

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The Booze Buzz

The Booze Buzz project was developed through a partnership with the Director for Health Improvement for Greater Manchester. It will contribute to the Greater Manchester Alcohol Steering Group project plan by stimulating debate in the public arena about alcohol by using creative participatory activities. The project is managed by LIME and brokered through the Greater Manchester Arts and Health Network (GMAHN) with Manchester City Council, Bolton MBC, Stockport MBC and Oldham MBC.

The Booze Buzz project is looking at drinking habits in a different way through the words, eyes and actions of artists responding to and involving the general public. The project sets out not to preach, but to listen and encourage debate in new creative ways. The artists will explore an exciting array of theatre and writing, drawing and drama to portray your views and ideas. They will also be working with health professionals and public health experts in the region to explore how best to portray issues around our drinking culture.

The Artists Phil Burgess and Nicky Duirs are leading this experimental project to creatively engage people in the community in Manchester, Stockport, Bolton and Oldham in a discussion concerning social attitudes, personal responses and lifestyle choices about alcohol. Professional women who regularly drink at home have been identified as an 'at risk' and a 'hidden' group in Greater Manchester.

Interactive activity has taken place across Manchester, Bolton, Oldham and Stockport including open public events such as Manchester's Feast in the Park and The Body Worlds Exhibition at the Museum Of Science and Industry.

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'Saggy Boobs' to be published

'Saggy Boobs and other breastfeeding myths', a quirky and humorous book debunking some of the commonly held beliefs about breastfeeding was successfully launched earlier in the year. The collaboration between infant feeding coordinator Val Finigan MBE and Lime, with incredible embroidered illustrations by Lou Gardiner has been extremely well received, picking up an award from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Maternity at Westminster. We are happy to report that 'Saggy Boobs' is now to be published through Pinter and Martin Publishers, allowing a potentially worldwide uptake, with strong interest already being shown from various NHS trusts around the country.

Two further books are now in development, so watch this space for further news.

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The Consortium for Participatory Arts Learning

Lime is a member of C-pal, the Consortium for Participatory Arts Learning. C-pal was set up and funded by Arts Council England, North West and is a group of regularly funded participatory led organisations across the North West. The main remit is skills development for people who are currently working or want to work in the participatory arts sector. It also provides a network to share ideas and issues and explore the development of the sector. Current members of the consortium are Action Factory, Community Arts North West (CAN), Cartwheel Arts, Full Circle Arts, Hope Street, Mid-Pennine Arts, LIME, Osun Arts, Prescap, TiPP, More Music and Lanternhouse International. For more information go to www.cpal.info

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The Amazing Dr. Sober Premieres!

The new film from Lime, The Amazing Doctor Sober, premieres at the Odeon, Printworks on 29th October 2008.

The film explores young people's issues around alcohol misuse and has been made by young people across Greater Manchester.

If you would like to be invited to the premiere, please email jenna@limeart.org

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'Creating Colour, Weaving Landscapes'
Artworks for Forum Health, Wythenshawe

Artist Stella Corrall created 12 artworks made of colourful translucent and flexible plastics for Forum Health in Wythenshawe. They are suspended from the ceiling in the Centre's light filled 10 metre high atrium entrance space. The suspended artworks measuring 300cm x 50 cm each are hung in 4 groupings, reflecting the seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.

As part of the project Stella Corrall along with artist Diane Pagan ran workshops with two local schools, Parklands High School and Newall Green High School. The 30 students who participated each created their own individual collaged and woven artwork which is now framed and permanently exhibited within the Forum Health Centre.

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Staff artistic talent showcased
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

Gill Brett, a Radiographer who works at the Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre, is also a highly accomplished and award winning photographer in her free time.

Lime worked with Gill to select four more of her stunning images from around the world which have now been enlarged and are permanently displayed in the Nightingale Centre, including one of the patient Mammography rooms.

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Lime is a winner at the 2008 Building Better Healthcare Awards

Lime won this years Award for Best Use of Visual Art in Healthcare at the Building Better Healthcare Awards 08. It was won in partnership with MAST LIFTCO and the Manchester PCT for arts projects at new health facilities in Ancoats, Cheetham Hill and Brunswick. This prestigious award was presented at a ceremony at the Brewery in London on 13th November. Congratulations to all involved especially Lime Project Manager Rob Vale.

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Manchester Faces

Lime has recently worked in collaboration with NOWGEN, Centre for Genetics in Healthcare, to install a fascinating exhibition in a hospital public space. The exhibition of ten digital portrait images was the result of a research project that made composite faces taken from hundreds of photos of Manchester people morphed together to create the Typical face of Manchester.

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Losing It wins it!

Losing It won a highly commended award in the North West Public Health Awards 2008 within the arts category. It was a film making project focussed on alcohol misuse issues. The project involved young people in Manchester in creative writing, acting and film making to address problems around alcohol consumption.

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The Amazing Dr Sober

The Amazing Doctor Sober launched on Wednesday 29th October with a Premiere at the Odeon Printworks, Manchester. This project is funded by Comic Relief, and explores issues around alcohol misuse for young people aged 10-14. There is a creative resource pack, a CD of resources and a DVD of a film made entirely by young people in Greater Manchester. The project took two years from start to finish, and has been supported by all 10 Greater Manchester young people's drug and alcohol services. It aims to give young people a chance to explore the social and emotional issues behind alcohol misuse in a creative way. The young people who had worked so hard on the film project travelled by Limo to the Printworks and were awarded with certificates to recognise their hard work on this long term project. The packs are now available to everyone in Greater Manchester and the North West. They are free, and there is also free training available for either healthcare professionals, teachers or anyone who works with young people, or workshop sessions for schools and youth groups, all subject to availability.

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Sale Grammar School Brings Life to Waiting Room

Sale Grammar School Year 12 students have created original artworks for the therapeutic, counselling and waiting areas within the Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre (part of University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust). At the beginning of the project students along with their Art Teachers visited the Centre and met with the specialist breast care nurses who provide health information, support and counselling. The brief for students was to create artworks which would 'bring life into the space' along the suggested themes of growth and nature. The finished artworks including engravings, photography, textiles and collages now enhance the atmosphere, making it warm, welcoming and intriguing for patients, visitors and staff. This project with Sale Grammar School, a specialist school in the Visual Arts, is part of an ongoing partnership linking the school with Lime and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. Lime works closely with the school's Community Coordinator, Ms Clare Bedford. The artworks have been kindly donated by each student and funding for the cost of framing was raised by the Genesis Appeal. The project has also attracted interest from the production company Centini who have been following the project for a mini TV documentary that will celebrate and focus upon young people doing great things for their local community.

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The Booze Buzz

The Booze Buzz project was developed through a partnership between the Director for Health Improvement for Greater Manchester, Lime and The Greater Manchester Arts and Health Network. Creative practitioners Phil Burgess and Nicky Duirs led this experimental project managed by Brian Chapman, Director of Lime. The aim was to creatively involve people in a debate around alcohol issues. The project engaged with 400 people over three months in Manchester, Stockport, Bolton and Oldham and brought together local authority arts officers, alcohol leads in public health and the artists to co-design the programme. The project was given a two page profile in the Manchester Evening News.

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FKD

A new Fanzine for young people in Salford, by young people in Salford was launched on 10th November. Called FKD (Furthering Knowledge and Development) the magazine gives practical advice to young people about alcohol misuse, drugs and sexual health. Funded by Comic Relief and Salford Drug and Alcohol Team, the project was a partnership between Lime, SMART and Salford Teenage Pregnancy. Graphic designer Jacqui Symons and writer Kim Wiltshire worked with young people in Salford to produce a mag that could help inform other vulnerable young people in Salford.

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Double Bill of Photography Installed in Oldham and North Manchester

A newly commissioned series of photographic artworks have been unveiled at the Victoria Suite, Oldham Hospital, and in the Gamma camera room at NMGH for Pennine Acute Trust. Artist Chris Foster was commissioned to create a series of artworks around a theme of water for Oldham designed to create a calming and contemplative feel to the unit. Working with manager Julie Smith, Chris held a series of sessions with staff and patient representatives to help to decide on the imagery, before finally printing the photos on to large canvasses. At North Manchester a selection of images from Chris's travels to Asia were selected and installed on walls and in the ceiling above the scanner itself. Staff opted for black and white images, referencing the gamma unit as being itself an image making camera.

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New Artwork just in at the Cecilia Centre

A new exhibition of more than 30 original artworks by Sale Grammar School students has now arrived at the Cecilia Centre part of the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. Sale Grammar School has been exhibiting their artwork in the Cecilia Centre since 2003, when this treatment and information Centre for people diagnosed with lung cancer opened. From the very beginning staff were keen to include artwork in their new building and positively welcomed the opportunity to form an on-going partnership with staff and students at the School.

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Exploring Dreams at the Cystic Fibrosis Centre

During November and December Visual Artist Di Pagan is working with cystic fibrosis patients who are having an extended stay in hospital, exploring their unique world of dreams. Each patient is being encouraged to develop their individual ideas and experiment with this abstract theme. One patient is working with her oxygen level graphs recorded during REM sleep as inspiration for creating artwork using printing techniques. Another patient is collaging outline figures to represent her family who appear silhouetted in her dreams. A selection of the finished pieces will be exhibited within the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre. Joan Fitzjohn, Senior Social Worker for the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre had this to say on the benefits to patients: 'It is great that our patients have the opportunity, if they wish, to explore creatively their thoughts and concerns which can be generated by their long term hospitalisation. Hopes, fears, frustrations and humour are expressed via the Arts and often this enables discussion of difficult topics.

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SPECIAL LIME NEWS FEATURE: Major New Scheme of Artwork for Primary Care Centre's
Hospital Community and the Built Environment

As part of the creation of new LIFT buildings at Radcliffe, Moorgate (Bury) and Ashton, Lime were commissioned by Community Solutions to work with local community, PCT, stakeholders and contractors to create a series of original and contemporary artwork, that is exciting, vibrant, modern and unique, but based around the participation of the communities that will make use of the buildings.



The project has taken over a year to complete, with involvement in the building design to allow artworks to best complement the spaces. The seven commissioned artists all undertook workshops to encourage participation by local communities and groups in the creation of the pieces, ranging from video artworks to atrium based and external sculptures. The result is a unique and extraordinary body of work that enhances each space it occupies, with future artworks planned in further health centres. Our thanks to the community groups, PCTs, BTG Community Solutions, Morgan Ashurst, Nightingale Associates, SMC DTR UK, and other stakeholders in working so hard to make these artworks a reality.



ARTWORK AT MOORGATE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE

ARTIST: ADAM REYNOLDS 'Hemispherically Bury' is a huge steel sculpture rising three floors up the wall of the main entrance, which highlights the different aspects, people and landmarks in the local area. There are 10 unique hemispheres of differing sizes made up of small individual outline elements. Each dome celebrates something unique about Bury such as Bury Market, Bury Art Society, and the Steam Railway. Some of them are obvious and some, like a puzzle, need a bit of time to see what they are.



ARTWORK AT RADCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE

ARTIST:ROB VALE Participants were introduced to the idea of sculptural forms for film, then creating transformation and change with these models by reversing what had been filmed. Ten screens are spiralled around a central column, with imagery of reforming ice, fire reversing, ripples in water, smoke wisps undulating and plants growing or returning to life. This simple imagery highlights the elemental theme that runs throughout the building, with each floor as earth, wind, fire and water. The piece spirals upwards encouraging people to move around the central space to view each screen, creating a very elemental and poetic piece to be contemplated whilst waiting for appointments.



ARTIST:SUKI CHAN Following the buildings theme of the elements, participants were asked to imagine images that were reflected in raindrops. They drew these within droplet templates, which Suki then took and transformed into 800 beautiful multi-coloured raindrops resembling a series of clouds floating in the atrium space. The artwork is designed to work with the airy space and help contribute to a calming atmosphere. It is a central focus for the building, designed to be viewed from all levels and perspectives. The raindrops are made from different types of acrylics, ranging from opaque, semi-transparent to mirror. Each one spins, thus mediating the light in atrium. From a distance the artwork glistens as the raindrops catch the light, and on close inspection the designs from workshops can be seen 'reflected' in each one.



ARTIST:ADAM REYNOLDS For the external paved area of the building Adam has created a series of dramatic and imposing steel waves. These increase in size, as visitors approach the entrance of the building. Within each wave drawn images from the workshops have been transferred into brass buttons, carried along on the sides of the sculpture. In the evening the waves are lit up through lights from below creating a unique and iconic sculpture for Radcliffe. The piece can be seen to be washing up to and away from the new health centre, with each wave emerging though the paving, softening the surroundings and defining the building entrance.



ARTWORK AT ASHTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE

ARTIST: STELLA CORRALL Ideas and themes arising from the workshops focused around the landscape and the sky. These used colour simply, whether this was as a gradual progression or flow of colours. From this Stella created the unique panels that you see here, with each containing colours from different parts of the day, reminiscent of sunrises and sunsets. The lights within each piece ebb and flow, altering the forms and creating patterns from the internal clear plastics, indicative of shapes,clouds and lines in the sky. By painstakingly crocheting each panel before pressing, colours have been carefully considered to gradually flow up, and along to create a sense of calm in the busy waiting areas.



ARTISTS: LIZ LOCKE AND MISHKA HENNER The inspiration for this series of hand -tinted images came from conversations with elderly members of the Khush Amdid group who meet regularly at the Holy Trinity Church in Ashton-under-Lyne. Floral patterns are integral to the rich variety of fabrics worn by them, as well as being rich in symbolism and meaning. With this in mind, the artists explored ways of combining flowers and floral patterns within portraits of young college goers at Tameside College. For Liz and Mishka, students represent an optimistic future, which we feel is a theme relevant and appropriate for display in a community room at the new health centre.



ARTIST: ROB VALE Participants were introduced to the idea of simple symbolic origami forms that would become the focus of each of the screen based artworks. Participants learned to make the origami crane, a traditional symbol of long life and happiness, then as they made it created simple stop-frame videos that allowed an insight into the process of film making, bringing the models to life.



ARIST: ADELA JONES During a series of workshops participants were invited to learn a new processes and contribute to the creation of a collection of garden inspired artworks. Adela was keen to create a project with a link to plants and gardens, aiming to create wall-based work that captured some of the energy generated in making the performance work that is her trademark.



The tasks set for the groups involved making tiny flower inspired finger costumes and swarms of bees each with a unique personality. The workshops were very well received, with participants with little or no experience of making art showing a real willingness to take part. The finished artwork makes use of the bees created in the workshops, placing them in quirky settings and locations, alongside images of the sewing work and the hands that created them.



For more information on any of the Primary Care Centre work above contact Rob Vale: rob@limeart.org

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New Manchester Hospitals Arts Programe
The Built Environment, Hospital Community

Artists Ray Smith, Andy Plant, Andy Small, Tony Stallard, Brian Chapman, Jane Parker & Fergus Channon, Lauren Sagar & Sharon Campbell, Richard Sharples, Opus glass design, Liquid Digital, Christian Ryan, Malcolm Glover and Nick Edwards are now developing high quality work for the New Hospitals Arts Programme in Central Manchester. The resulting work will be installed later this year and will represent photography, moving image, interactive, sculptural installations, works on glass and a tactile piece for people with visual impairment.



A special feature on this work will be included in the Lime news later this year.

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'Bored Nothing To Do'
Community and Public Health

Lime's new theatre project, Bored. Nothing To Do is getting ready to tour to schools in Manchester in March and April.



The play highlights the issues around sexual health and alcohol misuse in young people and was written and devised by vulnerable young men from Wythenshawe in 2008, then adapted into a full script by local writer and poet Tony Sheppard. A group of young actors have now been recruited to perform the piece in schools and youth centres in Manchester alongside a two hour workshop enabling young people to explore the risks they may be taking with their personal health and safety, led by the young actors as they talk about the issues discussed in the theatre piece and the process they have gone through while making the performance.



For more information or to book a performance and workshop please contact Kim Wiltshire: kim@limeart.org

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CMMC Staff Member Exibits Artwork
Hospital Community

A new exhibition by Stephanie Haynes is now showing by the Elective Treatment Centre in the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Stephanie has developed a career in finance within the NHS and has also spent much time experiencing hospitals as a patient undergoing neurosurgery.



Stephanie has felt bound up in the geography, history and culture of the hospital, and has mixed feelings about somewhere that has offered security, a sense of identity and companionship, but at the same time the stress and uncertainty of work. "I hope that visitors, whether patients, carers or families and friends, will appreciate through my photographs that they are entering a multi-faceted highly technical and scientific environment which does not fit the stereotypes seen on television, or perhaps their pre-conceptions. Some practises will be strange. Some outcomes will be unknown or unsatisfactory. Some treatments will fail. But the hospital's existence is testimony to the knowledge, resourcefulness and dedication of many generations, and to the ability of people to come together as a community." For more information contact Brian Chapman: brian@limeart.org

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60 year celebrations marked by new artwork
Hospital Community and Built Environment

As part of the continuing celebration of 60 years of the NHS, Pennine Acute Trust wished to create some permanent displays that made use of archive images and key moments in the histories of their hospitals. Rob Vale and Dawn Prescott from Lime worked with groups at each of the four main Pennine sites, to collect images, stories and dates. These were then transformed into a set of four unique collages shaped as large 60s.



The images have been extremely well received as subtle but fascinating artworks that draw attention to the many changes the NHS and healthcare have gone through in each of Pennine Trust's localities. It is now hoped that further work can be undertaken at Oldham to develop a heritage project.

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Victoria Square Book Launched
Community and Public Health

The end of a twelve month project between Lime and Victoria Square came with the launch of the book Victoria Square 'The Dwellings' on December 17th 2008. The launch was attended by over one hundred people, including the Lord Mayor, Cllr. Mavis Smitheman, Cllr. Jim Battle, all the artists involved and Lime's director Brian Chapman.



The book was written by Kim Wiltshire, using stories from workshops and research sessions with the residents of Vic Sq. Barbara Pringle, resident and tenants association member, formed part of the core artistic team at Vic Sq, where over 50 residents contributed to the book through storytelling, writing, editing, photography or graphic design. Volunteer artist Jennifer Gosling provided illustrations whilst photographer Graeme Vaughan and designer Craig Bailey worked with the residents to get the look of the book just right. 600 copies of the book have been printed, with copies being sent to libraries and local schools. The book was funded by Arts Council England and POPPs.



For more information please contact Kim Wiltshire: kim@limeart.org

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Primary School loans artwork to Hospital
University Hospital South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

Budding young artists at Springfield Primary School are lending a set of their recent paintings and prints to the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust for the enjoyment of patients, visitors and staff.



Playful fish in all colours and sizes, tranquil trees and illuminated sunsets, flower bouquets, Eiffel Towers and abstract prints made in workshops with Sale Grammar School can be seen on the first and second floor corridors in the Acute Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital.



For more information email: helen@limeart.org

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Eclypse Family Team work with Lime Artist
Community and Public Health

Following the close work between Lime and Eclypse on the Losing It and Doctor Sober alcohol resources, the Family Team are working on an artistic experiment with Lime. Artist Mark Haig has become part of the team, working with them on a day to day basis and creating artistic opportunities with the team's clients. Work includes the plan for a 'Kid Parade' as well as animation work, photoshop calendars and VJ-ing at the Christmas Party. Mark and the Family Team will evaluate the benefits of working closely with an artist, for the team as well as the clients. Further info will be available from April.



For more on formation contact Kim Wiltshire: kim@limeart.org

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Circles
University Hospital South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

Artist Di Pagan has been exploring the creative potential of circles with patients and staff during January, February and March in the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre at Wythenshawe Hospital.



Patients are working with Di to create CD sized mini masterpieces inspired by circles which are everywhere we look . . . biscuits, buttons, bottle tops, door knobs, coins, cups, clocks, wheels, rings, footballs . . . The finished collaged artworks will be fitted inside clear CD cases and collectively combined onto long panels. These colourful and detailed panels will then be exhibited in the new cystic fibrosis centre which is currently being built at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust.



For more information email: helen@limeart.org

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Coulourful Curving Screens
The Palatine Centre Withington Community Hospital

Artist Stella Corrall has created colourful, curving screens for the waiting room of the Palatine Centre for contraceptive and sexual health at Withington Community Hospital. Stella designed and made the bespoke screens using her unique translucent pressed plastics fitted within a metal frame of interlocking curves. The screens provide privacy as well as adding colour and interest to the waiting room.



For more information email: helen@limeart.org

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Arts in Health Lithuania

Lime Director Brian Chapman presented to an international conference examining the benefits of integrating the arts into healthcare. The USA, Sweden and Ireland were also represented. The capital of Lithuania, Vilnius has been awarded the European Capital of Culture this year just as Liverpool was last year. As part of this special year they are exploring how to connect culture and health. A new Childrens Hospital is being built and they are keen to make it as inspiring and pleasant as possible for the staff, patients and families using it. Brian was also invited to the British Embassy and to visit and talk to the Lithuanian Parliament. The result was the formation of a multidisciplinary committee comprising health, education and culture. Their job will be to determine policy and support pilot projects. The visit was a great success and very helpful for a new developing democracy to see the potential for the arts to help with community engagement, hospital enhancement and the role of the arts in public health.

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SPECIAL NEWS FEATURE:The New Central Manchester Hospitals Arts Programe

This state of the art hospital development will provide cutting edge medical care for the people of Manchester and the North West. Lime has developed this vision over the past decade to compliment essential health care with high quality art and design. There are now four new hospitals on the Central Manchester site, a new Children's hospital, an Eye Hospital, a hospital for Adults and a hospital for Women. Twelve major art commissions are now in place with a further five being planned or awaiting installation. All funding for this scheme of wok has been derived from Charitable sources.

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'Glass Pool' by Andy Plant
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

This absorbing work located at the new Adult Hospital brings tranquil movement to the courtyard space as 480 pieces of blue glass gently rock in the breeze and every six minutes a small golden fish flashes through the ripples. At a longer interval a mini tidal wave runs the length of the pool adding to the dimension of movement and time.

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Vinyl art work by Christian Ryan
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

The view to the glass pool (above) is framed by a major work in vinyl by artist Christian Ryan.

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Curious Creatures by Richard Sharples
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

Located at the new Children's Hospital site this playful piece features an array of animals; rope monkeys, a giant fish, butterflies emerging from the wall and some unusual metallic birds. Yet to be installed is a tree with a shadow in the form of a horse. Richard has also made a troupe of burrowing gofers, a flock of escaping butterflies and a quirky aquarium whereby fish heads protrude through the tank glazing.

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Curious Creatures by Richard Sharples
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

Located at the new Children's Hospital site this playful piece features an array of animals; rope monkeys, a giant fish, butterflies emerging from the wall and some unusual metallic birds. Yet to be installed is a tree with a shadow in the form of a horse. Richard has also made a troupe of burrowing gofers, a flock of escaping butterflies and a quirky aquarium whereby fish heads protrude through the tank glazing.

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Fable by Jane Parker and Fergus Channon
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

A courtyard installation at the new Eye Hospital featuring a planted slate mountain top with glass pool and a family of deer. The stag stands proud on a rocky outcrop. All materials are recycled including a ton of glass from vandalized bus shelters and scarpyard copper from which the deer were constructed.

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'TOUCH ME' - GLASS INSTALLATION BY OPUS GLASS DESIGN; JAKE PEGG AND CELIA Frank
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

Located at the new Eye Hospital site the intention is that this work is tactile and there to be touched making it particularly pertinent in a hospital where patients with impaired vision are treated.

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Lift Shaft works by Opus Glass and Ray Smith
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

There are two major works on lift shaft walls 3 stories high within two of the hospital atrium spaces. One features the work of Ray Smith at the new Eye Hospital and the other a substantial work in glass by Opus Glass located at the new Womens Hospital.

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'THE SUMMER HOUSE' by SHARON CAMPBELL AND LAUREN SAGAR
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

Located in the main courtyard at the new Women's Hospitals, this quirky work in glass features a mysterious greenhouse.

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THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of HUMAN RIGHTS ILLUSTRATION EXHIBITION
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

The exhibition of 30 book illustrations by internationally known artists was donated to the Manchester Royal Children's Hospital by Amnesty International. The images are supported by text and portray The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION by MICHELLE BRAND
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

Photography exhibition by environmental artist Michelle Brand at the new Women's Hospital using images of contemporary Manchester architecture. www.michellebrand.co.uk

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'HANDS' by LIQUID DIGITAL
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

An interactive tactile piece for children situated in the busy main out patients department.

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CALLIGRAPHY, AFRICAN STORIES AND MUSEUM IMAGES
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

Artists Mary Tang, A.U. Chaba, Rizwan Iqbal and Steve Devine from the Manchester Museum worked with Lime's writer in residence Chanje Kunda to make a complete 16 piece Multi-cultural exhibition for the new hospitals arts programme.

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ANYONE WHO HAS A HEART by ANDY SMALL
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

A major iconic art work is planned to be installed in the landscape facing the new hospitals. The selected artist commissioned to make this work is Andy Small. The work will be a signature piece for the new development and is set to delight and intrigue everyone with interactive qualities such as gently pulsing ribbons of light that respond to your heart rate as you hold the sensors. The piece will also be interacted with remotely by children viewing from within the hospital.

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MEMORY GLOVES
Part of the New Central Manchester Hospital Development

In collaboration with the Whitworth Art Gallery Lime has displayed work made by a local learning disabled adults group, the Platt Lane Art Group. Visiting artist Naomi Kendrick worked with the group to make this unique glove art. The display is in lit niches within the main reception desk at the New Manchester Children's Hospital.

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RABBIT FOX by JESSICA TSANG
NOWGEN Centre

Following discussions with curator Ying Kwok at the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester Lime has been offered a work by artist Jessica Tsang. Jessica has been artist in residence at the Chinese Arts Centre for the past six months and has kindly donated one of her works to the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Soon to be installed at the North West Genetics Centre (NOWGEN), the work is a fascinating ceramic piece developed in relation to the 2009 Charles Darwin's bicentenary. 'Rabbit Fox' explores the battle for survival on a sliding scale. It juxtaposes what is happening on an individual level with what is happening within the collective group. Each rabbit and fox is locked in its own private battle, but all the animals are in turn trapped within the coloured pools of glaze, which directly references a scientific diagram representing the way genes flow through a population. www.jessicatsang.com

END OF NEW CENTRAL MANCHESTER HOSPITALS ART PROGRAMME FEATURE

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TRANSITIONS ART PROJECT

Transitions is a creative project for young people with cystic fibrosis. Between September 2009 and February 2011 artists Kim Wiltshire and Mark Haig will work across the North West to create a pack for young people, created by young people aged 15 to 18. Using film, animation, digital art and creative writing, the pack will help those with cystic fibrosis make the transition from paediatric healthcare services to the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre (M.A.C.F.C.).

This project is supported by BBC Children in Need, M.A.C.F.C. and Paediatric CF Centres in the North West.

For more info contact helen@limeart.org

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Fingerprints
NOWGEN Centre

The North West Genetics Centre (NOWGEN) and Lime worked with Venture Arts in Manchester to produce innovative, unique and eye-catching art works using each participants own fingerprints as a basis. The project used a mixture of techniques including pinhole photography, mosaics and textiles to produce this installation at the Nowgen Centre. Venture Arts is a specialist in the provision of arts and crafts workshops for people with learning disabilities. Their mission is to provide a high quality arts experience in a friendly, stimulating and inclusive environment, focusing on bringing out the best in every individual, nurturing talent and enhancing overall wellbeing and quality of life. They run a wide range of arts and crafts workshops from an art studio in Hulme, Manchester and run outreach projects across Manchester.

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Animal Encounters

Lime commissioned artist Adela Jones to work with patients during their stay in on Pearce Ward in the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre between September and December 2009. She invited individuals to create their own artworks inspired by an animal connection. The resulting 24 images are now framed and exhibited in the Centre's new Out Patients Department.__ The Artist had this to say about the project: ''The Animal Encounters project has grown from my own interest and enthusiasm for animals and a feeling that this is something that most people can connect to and enjoy. The variety of artworks reflect a vibrant and engaging response to the theme.'' ''The project enhanced my belief in the importance of animals in many people's lives. The exhibition features photography, collage, painting, print and mixed media artworks. Thank you to all involved and to staff and their families who contributed photos of their pets and animal stories for use as additional starting points for work made by patients.'' For more info contact helen@limeart.org

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Celebrating Patient Talent
Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre

Lime has an on-going partnership with the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre developing and managing a rolling programme of Artist Commissions focusing on engaging patients in creative self expression. A selection of artworks by patients have been enlarged and printed on the reverse of acrylic panels and are now exhibited in the entrance to the new Pearce Ward which opened in 2009.

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What Makes You Happy
Brownley Green Health Centre

LIME commissioned metal artist Adam Reynolds and plastics artist Stella Corrall to create artworks for Brownley Green Health Centre in Manchester. They ran creative sessions with the Centre's staff and people in the local community. At the beginning of the project they devised a postcard questionnaire asking staff and visitors to the Centre: 'What is your favourite colour and noise and what makes you happy?' Responses to these questions informed the Artists final designs. The Artists also worked with Year 9 students from Parklands High School (now an Academy) investigating wind blown seeds. With continued help from their art teacher, Mr. Christy Lyons, the students designed and created their own 'seeds' from various materials. They were also asked to look at words or activities that made them feel happy or healthy. The students were then asked to stand together with all their seeds, throw them in the air and see how well they flew! The seeds shapes and words used in the sculpture installation which grows and spreads throughout the Centre from the ground floor to the first floor up walls and across the ceiling are inspired by the student's efforts and are made from a mixture of metals and plastics. In addition to the sculpture installation, a textile banner and ceramic pieces were created for the Centre.

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