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PROJECT CASE STUDIES
4 project case studies higlighting key aspects within areas of practice and outcomes

Lime receives an increasing number of requests for project information from a broad spectrum of artists, students, health care professionals, arts professionals, community groups...the list goes on. To meet this need we have selected 4 projects and compiled individual case studies for each aiming to share valuable lessons in practice/ outcomes by highlighting aspects of each project.



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THE MANCHESTER ADULT CYSTIC FIBROSIS PROJECT CASE STUDY A creative programme working with CF patients, staff and volunteers spanning 15 years.

THE NIGHTINGALE CENTRE AND GENISIS PREVENTION CENTRE PROJECT CASE STUDY A series of arts commissions for a new breast cancer care and prevention centre in Manchester.

'LOSING IT' PROJECT CASE STUDY A pilot film making project aimed at and made by young people about issues surrounding alcohol.

ASHTON AND RADCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE'S A commission to integrate a scheme of contemporary and bespoke artworks within 2 new Primary Care Health Centre's



This is an initiative supported and funded by the Arts Council of England

The Night Shift
A night time photographic project

As part of the arts activity across Pennine Acute Trust, recently graduated artist Melissa Laishley has been working with staff during night time shifts to create unusual portraits that highlight their movement around a space, referencing the 24 hour activity that takes place in busy hospitals. Wearing custom made sleeves of LED lights, Melissa is working with staff from varied departments, to develop movements across a camera frame with an open shutter of about 6 seconds, rather than a split second as in a normal image. The movement of the participant leaves coloured light traces on the image, drawing in three dimensions their movement. Work is taking place across all sites, and large scale images will be generated for display in the four Pennine Hospitals.

Commemorative Garden Project
New Central Manchester Children's Hospital

Lime in collaboration with landscape artists, Eaton Waygood Associates, is coordinating the design and build of a special commemorative garden space adjacent to the new Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. The design will develop through participatory events and workshops with parents and family members of children who have sadly died whilst in hospital. The family members are representatives from the former Booth Hall Children's Hospital, The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (Pendlebury) and St. Mary's Hospital but the garden will be for all; past, present and future families. Foe more info contact brian@limeart.org

Inspiring Artwork by Eye Hospital Patients
Painters with a rare eye disorder

A new collection of donated paintings has recently been installed in three waiting areas within clinics A, B, C and J of the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. They are all by patients who have attended the Eye Hospital and are three members of the same family, brothers Charles and Geoff Macdonald and their sister Jean Howarth. They share the inherited eye disorder, pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) which is a rare connective tissue disorder effecting one in 100,000 people. This condition in the eye means there is little or no central vision. __These painting are therefore a labour of love and a testament to the artist's determination to create things of beauty despite their disability. For more info email brian@limeart.org

Macmillan Cancer Care Centre
Leighton Hospital Crewe

The newly opened Macmillan Cancer Care Centre at Leighton Hospital Crewe caters for a spectrum of cancers. The art and design brief was to enhance the environment of the waiting areas, counselling and therapy rooms as well as the corridors connecting these areas. The majority of the finished artworks are photographic based using imagery from the natural world - plants , growth and vibrant colour. Colourful drawings of plants and handmade paper designs by Sale Grammar School are also exhibited and 'Small Pleasures' a playful textile by artist Anne Menary hangs in one of the treatment rooms. Five photo montage panels incorporating images of trains and train journeys by photographers Sara and David Evans line one of the corridors within the centre. Photographer Gill Brett's 'Maldives Golden Hour' creates a calming atmosphere within the main waiting room.__The Macmillan Cancer Care Centre at Leighton Hospital achieved the new national Macmillan Quality Environment Mark which was launched at the Tate Modern on 14th January 2010. For more information contact helen@limeart.org

Vallance Centre
NHS Manchester

Artists Stella Corrall and Adam Reynolds recently completed their beautiful large scale suspended artwork for the Vallance Centre. Working with participants from staff, patient groups, parent groups and Medlock Primary School they have collaborated to create a faceted window piece based around the weather, which interacts with the sunlight coming into the waiting area through the large windows. Snowflakes, rainbow, lightning, sun and rain motifs have been watercut into a combination of Adam's metalwork and Stella's bespoke plastics, creating an uplifting artwork that looks at themes of change and transformation. Further works are displayed on the upstairs corridor space. For more info contact rob@limeart.org