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Projects
Archive
Older project examples showing the wide range of creative approaches artists have brought into the healthcare arena over the years.
PATHWAYS
BRIAN CHAPMAN
PHIL BURGESS & IRENE LUMLEY (1st stage lead); BRIAN CHAPMAN, TRAE ENGLAND, ADELA JONES (supporting)
IRENE LUMLEY, KIM WILTSHIRE, JESSICA BOCKLER, ADELA JONES, KOOJ, MULI AMAYE (2nd stage)
Langley Brown, Rae Story, Caroline Kagan, Judith Sixsmith
2002-6
Pathways is a research-based pilot project aimed at demonstrating the positive impact of artistic practice upon community mental health in the community. The project embraces an experimental referral network for those suffering, or at risk of, mental ill health.
ECHOES DOWN CORRIDORS
University of Manchester Dental Hospital
ROB VALE AND ROGER SIMM
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.
EMERGENCY STARSHIP
Paediatric A+E Department,
Manchester Royal Infirmary
BRIAN CHAPMAN
2000
Artists and designers working with consultant surgeons, doctors, play specialists, architect and commissioner to create a new user friendly accident and emergency unit for children.
ILERA LORO ('HEALTH IS WEALTH')
STUART WEBSTER
2003-4
Two African women artists, were given residencies in four acute mental health care venues in Greater Manchester to demonstrate the life-enhancing role of traditional African women's arts and culture in mental health.
MOORSIDE CAFE ARTS PROJECT
STUART WEBSTER
2002-4
The CafŽ Arts project at the Moorside Mental Health Unit, Trafford demonstrated the benefits of a creative intervention for service users and staff in acute mental healthcare through the creation of a non-clinical off-ward cafŽ and arts space.
TRANSMISSION
PHIL BURGESS
RAPHAEL CHIKUKWA (Co-ordinator in Zimbabwe)
2001-3
This international music, dance, digital technology and visual arts project connected groups of young people in Zimbabwe and young people in Central Manchester working with issues around sexual health.
MALAYSIA ARTS IN HEALTH CONSULTANCY
BRIAN CHAPMAN
2002
Malaysia Arts in Health Consultancy Project Manager and Lead Artist/Trainer - Brian Chapman Artists: Elias Yamani, Richard Hairi Yaakub, Sooshie Chan, A week of workshops with artists in a Selayang Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, were held to develop a deeper understanding of the artistic potential and the constraints of working in a hospital context
MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY 250th ANNIVERSARY PROJECT
BRIAN CHAPMAN
ANTHONY RATCLIFF, JOHN COOK & MICHAEL CLEMENTS
2002
To celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, several projects were commissioned, including an exhibition featuring an artistic response to archive material, an interactive CD Rom featuring archive photography, interviews with staff and an audio narrative and a commemorative woodcut print portraying 250 years of healthcare in Manchester. A large number of the interactive CDs and prints of the woodcut were produced and made available to staff and visitors.
EYE WITNESS THEATRE COMPANY
BRIAN CHAPMAN
In collaboration with the Human Resources Directorate, Manchester Royal Infirmary
2002
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.
SURE START LIME
CREATIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
BRIAN CHAPMAN
BRIAN CHAPMAN
2001
This is a community engagement and regeneration project in Manchester's Longsight area. It involves confidence building through creative activity, exploration of potential of involving local groups in art projects. The project was funded by Sure Start.
ASHWORTH HOSPITAL
High-dependency forensic hospital - Arts projects with hospital community, staff and patients
BRIAN CHAPMAN
STUART WEBSTER, ANNA TODD & HELEN KITCHEN
1992-8
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.
SCANNER CEILING
STUART WEBSTER
1996
This ceiling work in stained glass was conceived and designed for the scanner room in consultation with the staff of the Radiology Unit, Hope Hospital, Salford. The idea was to produce a design holding within it a range of 'possibilities' which over a period of time of viewing could be interpreted differently by each individual.
