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.
The Night Shift
Project Manager(s): Rob ValeProject Artist(s): Melissa Laishley 2010
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.
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Impressions
Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe HospitalProject Manager(s): Helen KitchenProject Artist(s): Hannah Murphy and Anna Creighton2004 to 2009
ED/HC
Artists Hannah Murphy and Anna Creighton worked alongside CF patients, 4 afternoons a week over a 12 month period encoraging them to develop a personal approach to art and design. Techniques included mono-printing, collagraph, carving, stamping, slabbing and pattern making.
The Impressions arts programme was accredited by the Open College Network (OCN), allowing patients to work towards recognised qualifications and gain university credits while in Hospital.
Exploring Dreams
Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, ManchesterProject Manager(s): Helen KitchenProject Artist(s): Di Pagan2008 to 2008
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.
milk myths
Project Manager(s): rob vale Project Artist(s): louise gardiner2007
Working with Val Finigan, infant feeding co-ordinator for Pennine Acute Trust, Lime made a successful bid for £5,575 from Awards for All. This was used to commission artist Louise Gardiner to work directly with breastfeeding support groups across the trust, collecting their views on breastfeeding myths and misnomers.
LIVE MUSIC NOW
Project Manager(s): ROB VALEProject Artist(s): THE MINERVA TRIO2006
HC
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.
A HANDFUL OF GERMS
Project Manager(s): ROB VALEProject Artist(s): ROSIE MILLER2006
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.
UNABLE TO STOP BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE
Project Manager(s): ROB VALEProject Artist(s): RACHELL GOODYEAR2006
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.
PARK HOUSE - ELEMENTS
Project Manager(s): ROB VALEProject Artist(s): STELLA CORRALL & ADAM REYNOLDS2006
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.
PICTURES OF PEOPLE
Project Manager(s): ROB VALEProject Artist(s): LUCY HUNT2005
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.
WHEN THE FUTURE HAPPENS - THE GREAT PHYSIO EXPERIM
Project Manager(s): ROB VALEProject Artist(s): JAMES HUTCHINSON & LESLEY YOUNG2005
A series of workshops were held at the physiotherapy department of the North Manchester General Hospital with the result of eight film 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.
Floyd Unit Residency
Project Manager(s): Rob ValeProject Artist(s): Rosie Miller2005
The rural landscape surrounding Birch Hill Hospital has formed the inspiration for a new series of beautiful artworks within the hospital's Floyd Unit Neuro Rehabilitation Ward.
Worlds Apart
Project Manager(s): Rob ValeProject Artist(s): Chris Foster2005
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.
Flight
Environmental Arts Programme, Withington Community Hospital, ManchesterPCTProject Manager(s): Helen KitchenProject Artist(s): Suki Chan2005
Flight consists of 300 origami fabric birds made from reflective fabrics and is suspended from the ceiling in the main entrance to Withington Community Hospital. Artist Suki Chan created this permanent installation which is designed to promote calmness and create a sense of joy for visitors and staff and make a welcoming first impression. The Artist worked with a diverse range of people within the Hospital and local communities inviting them to customise and decorate an individual bird. Suki worked with approximately 145 people including students from Chorlton and Whalley Range High Schools, older people from the Minehead Resource Centre, patients, doctors, nurses, porters, cleaners and clerical staff at the Hospital.
Echoes Down Corridors
University of Manchester Dental HospitalProject Manager(s): Rob Vale & Roger SimmProject Artist(s): -2004
This Heritage Lottery-funded project was managed by Rob Vale and Roger Sim and celebrates the history of North Manchester hospitals through archive and stories.
Eye Witness Theatre Company
Project Manager(s): Brian ChapmanProject Artist(s): In collaboration with the Human Resources Director2002
Eyewitness Theatre Company performed drama scenarios around the Central Manchester and Manchester Children's Hospitals Trust as part of staff training and development exploring issues of cultural difference.
Me, Myself, I- A book of self portraiture and poetry
Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe HospitalProject Manager(s): Helen KitchenProject Artist(s): Pat Winslow, Irene Lumley, Esther Chambers2001
HC
Patients worked with creative writer Pat Winslow, and photographer, Irene Lumley, to explore the theme of identity. Artist Esther Chambers then incorporated the resulting poetry and photographic portraits into soft, handmade textile books which looked like small pillows and were given to all who had been involved in the project. The resulting book ‘Me Myself I’ was purchased by The Tate Britain for their permanent collection of artist’s made books. As a direct result of the project, two patients decided to take up English Literature courses and others have continued to write.
Ashworth Hospital
High-dependency forensic hospital - Arts projects with hospital community, staff and patientsProject Manager(s): Brian ChapmanProject Artist(s): Stuart Webster, Anna Todd & Helen Kitchen1992 to 1998
Between1992 and 1998 Lime, then Hospital Arts, undertook several arts projects at Ashworth Hospital, one of the three high security hospitals in England, engaging patients and staff in a wide range of environmental work and self expression.
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