Lime
Projects
Projects
Hospital Community
Hospital staff, patients and visitors make up the spectrum of people who pass through and work within the hospital environment. Creative projects may involve one or all of this diverse range of people and many project link them with other communities outside of the hospital.
NEW HOPITALS DEVELOPMENT AND THE ARTS
Central Manchester and Manchester Children's Hospitals University NHS Trust (CMMC)
BRIAN CHAPMAN
2000 - 2010
Lime has developed an arts strategy for the new £500m hospital development in Central Manchester. It is due for completion in 2010 and in 2006 Lime appointed lead artist Ray Smith to undertake the creative visioning work for the New Hospital Development.
THE BROADOAK SUITE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
ROB VALE
WARREN GRIME et al
2007
The Broadoak Suite Restaurant at Fairfield General Hospital, Bury, is undergoing a substantial refurbishment scheme, and as part of this the largest wall in the restaurant was to be covered with a 10 metre long photograph. An open competition was held calling for professional and amateur photographers to submit black and white images in any style, with any subject - abstract, landscape, macro, people-based - but in some way related to the surrounding area and/or communities of the hospital, Bury or the district in its broadest sense.
HOPWOOD HALL COLLEGE
ROB VALE
ADELA JONES
2006-7
Following a successful bid for £5,800 from the Rochdale Youth Opportunity Fund, artist Adela Jones worked with students from Hopwood Hall College, creating work for a permanent exhibition within Rochdale Infirmary.The work was about the students' perception of Rochdale and its communities in its broadest form.
THE NIGHTINGALE CENTRE AND GENESIS PREVENTION CENTRE
Wythenshawe Hospital, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
HELEN KITCHEN
MARTIN DONLIN, ROB VALE, GILL BRETT & LESLEY FALLAIS
2007
An environmental arts programme for a new breast care centre, The Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre, including an Architectural Art Glass Window, Film Installation, Photographic Artwork by a staff member and donor recognition Artwork.
A HANDFUL OF GERMS
ROB VALE
ROSIE MILLER
2006
Working with infection control nurse Sally Roters, local schools were invited to get involved in creating large collages, based on the theme of 'A Handful of Germs'. This was as part of the Pennine Trust's Clean Your Hands campaign, organised by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) aiming to improve hand hygiene practices within the hospital setting. A series of collages were created, with the winning school being presented with prizes provided by B Braun, the suppliers of our hand cleaning fluid. The collage was also displayed as part of the Clean Your Hands week across the trust's hospitals.
LIVE MUSIC NOW
ROB VALE
THE MINERVA TRIO
2006
Live classical music filled the air in wards across Manchester thanks to a trio of woodwind musicians from Live Music Now, a scheme founded in 1977 by Yehudi Menuhin and his friend Ian Stoutzker. The scheme gives young professional performers the chance to play in a variety of public settings.
PARK HOUSE - ELEMENTS
ROB VALE
STELLA CORRALL & ADAM REYNOLDS
2006
Service users and staff at Park House, North Manchester, were brought together to work alongside artists Stella Corrall and Adam Reynolds, devising and building beautiful new spaces and artworks.
BLUE - CHILDREN'S WAITING ROOM
University of Manchester Dental Hospital
DIANE PAGAN
2005
In October 2005, Lime commissioned four artists and an experienced painter/decorator to transform the children's dental waiting room area at the University of Manchester Dental Hospital which had been described by Linda Adamson, Modern Matron as....'very drab, in desperate need of decoration and not child friendly at all'. Sensory, distracting, calming and interactive qualities were incorporated to create a relaxing and engaging space by interpreting the theme of 'under the sea' in an imaginative, and abstract, way, appealing to children of all ages.
PICTURES OF PEOPLE
ROB VALE
LUCY HUNT
2005
This popular exhibition of portraits by Lucy Hunt has been reprinted for display at Rochdale, Oldham and North Manchester. A total of 48 images of staff make up a unique display of the people within Pennine Trust. Wards from all four sites were invited to be photographed, and the people are shown without name, site, or job title, emphasising that it is the uniqueness of people that provides the character of an acute trust such as Pennine.
UNABLE TO STOP BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO CLOSE TO THE LINE.
ROB VALE
RACHELL GOODYEAR
2006
Unable to Stop Because They Were Too Close to the Line is collection of drawings shown for the first time at Fairfield Hospital. It was created by Salford-based artist Rachel Goodyear, who underwent six months chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Lime commissioned Rachel to create a series of new drawings, as a visual interpretation of her experiences as both patient and artist.
PUPIL SUPPORT CENTRE, OLDHAM
ROB VALE
STUDENTS FROM THE AREA
2005
Pupil Support Centre, Oldham
Working with art teacher Richard Slater, a group of students from the Oldham Pupil Support Centre were given the opportunity to permanently display print-based work. The project manager visited the school, giving talks on the type of arts activity within the trust and the possibilities for student work.
A series of 18 works were then displayed along an empty section of wall in Oldham Hospital, and students visited the work in its new location. The project is aimed as a pilot for future work with the Support Centre.
WHEN THE FUTURE HAPPENS - THE GREAT PHYSIO EXPERIMENT
ROB VALE
JAMES HUTCHINSON & LESLEY YOUNG
2005
A series of workshops were held at the physiotherapy department of the North Manchester General Hospital with the result of eight filmic pieces to be permanently displayed on LCD screens in the department.
Artists Lesley Young and James Hutchinson worked with groups PACE, Breathe Easy, Heartline, Energy for Life, and Anky Sponds to create video/moving image artwork. This was the first permanent video art piece in the trust thanks to a successful Awards for All bid of £4,000, and further monies for equipment from the department.
WORLDS APART
ROB VALE
CHRIS FOSTER
2005
Worlds Apart is a beautiful and poignant exhibition of 27 new photographs relating to the recent years that Chris Foster has lived and worked in Asia.
Each of the four main hospitals in the Pennine Trust hosts a different series of works, that as a whole create a vibrant and original exhibition, linking each hospital to the others as well as the people and places depicted in the images.
Hiroshima was the final location of a seven-year journey for Chris. The groups of photographs document the characters, colours, shapes and details that influenced his time in and around 2005, six decades after that infamous day when for us Hiroshima became a moment rather than a place.
From the sombre outlines of Hiroshima's Memorial Museum to the vibrancy of a Japanese Autumn, these moments caught on film create a context for our understanding of a real place, heard of by everyone, visited by few, worlds apart from our own.
