HOPWOOD HALL COLLEGE

Project Manager(s): ROB VALE

Project Artist(s): ADELA JONES

2006 to 2007

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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.

Best Practice

Project Manager(s): Rob Vale

Project Artist(s): -

2007

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In this project, a film was created highlighting the many groups who represent models of best practice across the trust. This included walking groups CAN, Race for Life, Pulmonary Rehab, Rochdale Players and others. The groups or individuals were visited, and filmed undertaking their various activities, and the resulting film was shown at the Pennine Acute Trust annual Best Practice Conference.

Juice

Project Manager(s): Kim Wiltshire

Project Artist(s): -

2005 to 2007

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JUICE is a three year film and workshop project exploring alcohol misuse among young people in Greater Manchester

Losing it

Project Manager(s): Kim Wiltshire

Project Artist(s): -

2005 to 2007

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'Losing It' is a film from the pilot phase of the Juice project. Funded through Manchester City Council's Cultural Strategy Team/NRF, the project worked with young people across Manchester, using creative workshops in script writing, film making, acting and music. Groups worked with included Young Travellers, LGYM, Plant Hill Youth Club, Water Activity Centre, Young Carers and The Manchester Foyer. The process was also evaluated by a research team from Lifeline.

milk myths

Project Manager(s): rob vale

Project Artist(s): louise gardiner

2007

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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.

POPPs Scheme

Project Manager(s): Kim Wiltshire

Project Artist(s): -

2007

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The Lime Arts and Health Partnership for Older People's Project's scheme was built on the success of the Pathways project - 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.

THE BROADOAK SUITE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

Fairfield General Hospital

Project Manager(s): ROB VALE

Project Artist(s): WARREN GRIME et al

2007

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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.

53 Origami Butterflies

Environmental Arts Programme, Withington Community Hospital, ManchesterPCT

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Charlotte Brown

2007

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The blood test waiting area has been redesigned to create a better patient environment through the inclusion of artworks and simplifying and relocating signage. Artist Charlotte Brown worked with local schools and community groups to create a collection of unique and colourful origami paper butterflies. A total of 53 butterflies have been individually box framed and now fill a large wall, floor to ceiling, providing a playful and intriguing distraction as people sit and wait for their blood test.

Film Installation of Collaged Landscapes and Photographic Artwork

The Nightingale Centre and Genesis Prevention Centre, Wythenshawe

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Rob Vale and Gill Brett

2007

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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.

Paintings and Collages by Platt Lane Art Group

Environmental Arts Programme, Withington Community Hospital, ManchesterPCT

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Gemma Lacey

2007

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Lime has established a link with a local arts group which is part of the Manchester Learning Disability Partnership. Artist Gemma Lacey was commissioned to work with three of the group members to curate a selection of 10 paintings and collage artworks for permanent display on the ground floor within the Out Patient's Waiting Area. The three members of the group are regular users of Withington Community Hospital and exhibiting their work in the Hospital has greatly boosted their self esteem and confidence which is one of the developmental aims of Platt Lane Art Group. Patients in the waiting area now have an intriguing and playful collection of artworks to divert their attention.

Sound Collectors Music Project

Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Ros Hawley and Mark Fisher

2007

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Professional Musicians Ros Hawley and Mark Fisher delivered a 'Sound Collectors' project during January and February 2007 where patients were given the opportunity to actively participate and learn how to play instruments such as the Tibetan Bells and Ocean Drums.

Wheelie Trolley Animation

Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Hannah Murphy and Adela Jones

2007

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Artists Hannah Murphy and Adela Jones worked with patients to create a 6 minute animation on CD and video. The aim was to involve as many people as possible in the creation of a series of animated experiments using a range of techniques and processes. The resulting animation demonstrates the sense of creativity, ambition, fun and open mindedness that is found amongst the patients on Pearce Ward.

BLUE - CHILDREN'S WAITING ROOM

University of Manchester Dental Hospital

Project Manager(s): DIANE PAGAN

Project Artist(s): DIANE PAGAN

2006

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HC/ED 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.

LIVE MUSIC NOW

Project Manager(s): ROB VALE

Project Artist(s): THE MINERVA TRIO

2006

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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 VALE

Project Artist(s): ROSIE MILLER

2006

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ED/HC 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 VALE

Project Artist(s): RACHELL GOODYEAR

2006

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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 VALE

Project Artist(s): STELLA CORRALL & ADAM REYNOLDS

2006

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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.

Patient and Public Initiative - Drama Work

Project Manager(s): Rob Vale

Project Artist(s): Ella Vale

2006

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ED/CPH As part of the Pennine Trust's Patient and Public Involvement Week, actress Ella Vale worked with amputees who are still actively involved with the trust. From discussions with them, Ella created a monologue based around the journey a patient takes through diagnosis, consultation, treatment, after care and, crucially, as patient representatives. This lively, humorous, moving and thought-provoking piece was then performed at each of the sites during PPI week, for those attending the roadshow sessions.

From Inside Out, We Are All The Same

Environmental Arts Programme, Withington Community Hospital, ManchesterPCT

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Diane Pagan

2006

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Artist Diane Pagan worked with students from local schools to create individual collaged artwork based around medical images of a renal artery, an iris of an eye, an ear cartilage, a blood clot, a white blood cell, a ciliated cell, kidney blood vessels and a synaptic junction. Lead artist Diane then designed 5 large murals incorporating the students artwork. The artwork is located on the ground floor, main corridor at Withington Community Hospital.

PICTURES OF PEOPLE

Project Manager(s): ROB VALE

Project Artist(s): LUCY HUNT

2005

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HC 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 VALE

Project Artist(s): JAMES HUTCHINSON & LESLEY YOUNG

2005

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HC/CPH 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.

PUPIL SUPPORT CENTRE, OLDHAM

Project Manager(s): ROB VALE

Project Artist(s): STUDENTS FROM THE AREA

2005

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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.

Floyd Unit Residency

Project Manager(s): Rob Vale

Project Artist(s): Rosie Miller

2005

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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.

Real Recipes

Project Manager(s): Rob Vale

Project Artist(s): Rochdale Ladies Cooking Group

2005

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This project was funded through Rochdale Healthy Living Initiative. Public health nutritionist Francesca Banner led a series of cooking sessions, bringing Pakistani and Bangladeshi women together to share recipes and cook for each other. The results were turned into a lively and imaginative recipe book, with 1000 copies being produced for distribution within Rochdale communities. Lime designed and printed the books, which were launched at a special event at Rochdale Odeon Cinema.

Stained Glass Window- Quiet Room

Environmental Arts Programme, Withington Community Hospital, ManchesterPCT

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Deb Lowe

2005

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Hospital staff wanted to create a calming atmosphere for the designated Quiet Room, a space for contemplation and reflection and/or prayer, a refuge from busy clinical areas. This room would be open to all who wished to use it including staff, patients and visitors. The glass artist was asked to create a stained glass window using natural elements including water in the design and to incorporate clear areas where viewers could look out the window if they wished. The resulting stained glass window is delicately and intricately detailed with beautifully observed natural forms including pebbles, water, flora and fauna.

Worlds Apart

Project Manager(s): Rob Vale

Project Artist(s): Chris Foster

2005

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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.

Changing Exhibition of Original Artworks by Sale Grammar School

Environmental Arts Programme, Withington Community Hospital, ManchesterPCT

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Sale Grammar School Students

2005

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HC, Ed- Lime and the outreach tutor from Sale Grammar School work with staff members from three hospital departments to curate ongoing exhibitions for their clinic areas. A fundamental element of the partnership project involves visits by NHS staff to the art department at Sale Grammar as well as students visiting the hospital to see their work displayed and to meet staff. Every two years the exhibition changes, providing opportunities for more students to show off their talent as well as the chance for patients and staff to see new and exciting artworks. The artwork is located within the Sexual Health Treatment Centre: Ophthalmology and Theatres waiting areas.

Flight

Environmental Arts Programme, Withington Community Hospital, ManchesterPCT

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Suki Chan

2005

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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.

Impressions

Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Hannah Murphy and Anna Creighton

2004 to 2005

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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.

Echoes Down Corridors

University of Manchester Dental Hospital

Project Manager(s): Rob Vale & Roger Simm

Project Artist(s): -

2004

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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.

Ilera Loro ('Health is Wealth')

Project Manager(s): Stuart Webster

Project Artist(s): -

2003 to 2004

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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

Project Manager(s): Stuart Webster

Project Artist(s): -

2002 to 2004

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The Cafe 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 cafe and arts space.

Transmission

Project Manager(s): Phil Burgess

Project Artist(s): Raphael Chikukwa (Co-ordinator in Zimbabwe)

2001 to 2003

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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.

Eye Witness Theatre Company

Project Manager(s): Brian Chapman

Project Artist(s): In collaboration with the Human Resources Director

2002

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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.

Malaysia Arts in Health Consultancy

Project Manager(s): Brian Chapman

Project Artist(s): Elias Yamani, Richard Hairi Yaakub, Sooshie Chan

2002

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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

Project Manager(s): Brian Chapman

Project Artist(s): ANTHONY RATCLIFF, JOHN COOK & MICHAEL CLEMENTS

2002

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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.

A Media Mess Up

Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Esther Chambers

2001

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ED/HC Artist Esther Chambers worked with patients to create fake adverts for magazines. Patients investigated how advertising works, typography and imagery and then went on to create their own imaginary and often wacky adverts, choosing famous people to sell a product of their choice.

Dream of Reason

Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): John Cook, Gemma Lacey, Julien O'Neill

2001

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HC A multi media arts project. Three artists worked with patients and staff further developing ideas initiated in the ‘Me Myself I’ project. Artist John Cook encouraged personal expression and creativity through writing, photography, drawing and sound in one-to-one sessions with patients. Artist Gemma Lacey worked with patients and staff exploring ‘automatic drawing’ and 3-D design which resulted in an installation of small soft sculptures. Artist Julian O’Neill used music and painting as a way of stimulating participants’ creativity which resulted in a number of exuberant, colourful group paintings. An animated CD ROM featuring all the work was also produced and given to all those who participated.

Me, Myself, I- A book of self portraiture and poetry

Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Pat Winslow, Irene Lumley, Esther Chambers

2001

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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 patients

Project Manager(s): Brian Chapman

Project Artist(s): Stuart Webster, Anna Todd & Helen Kitchen

1992 to 1998

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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

Project Manager(s): Stuart Webster

Project Artist(s): -

1996

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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.

AWOL- a book of poetry and prose

Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Pat Winslow

1995

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Patients worked with creative writer Pat Winslow, on all aspects of publishing a book of their own poetry and prose. In addition to editing and designing the book participants had the opportunity to print and bind the book at a community printing resource. They used the money raised from selling the book to fund further projects of their choice.

Stained Glass Ceiling

Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital

Project Manager(s): Helen Kitchen

Project Artist(s): Stuart Webster

1995

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Lime first began working with patients in the CF unit during a year-long residency with artist Stuart Webster, who ran workshops once a week, exploring mosaic, photography, painting and other art forms. Patients were encouraged to continue working on their creative projects during the week when the Artist was not there. The residency culminated with a specially designed stained glass ceiling for the entrance corridor to the unit. Working with the artist it became clear that patients wanted direct reference to be made to their condition and a design evolved which is a semi abstract image of the heart and lungs.