Sutapa Biswas puts the finishing touched to a
mural for Garnet Ward at Highgate Mental Health Centre. Image Hospital Rooms/Jennifer Moyes
interiors
reflect the city’s culture, landscape and history, helps to give the building a unique identity, prompts conversation, and makes the hospital environment feel more welcoming and less clinical. Research is vital to choosing the right
works of art, said Willis, and this process should take into account the views of staff patients, and other stakeholders. “Be specific and clear about the need
and how art will support patients and staff,” she added.
High standards “Identify specific benefits, backed up by research. For example, is the need around wayfinding? Or to support patients who suffer boredom and need stimulation and distraction to ward off depression and anxiety?” Hospital Rooms originally worked in
artwork that rewards repeated viewing. “A patient in pain, however, may feel
distressed and need an artwork that calms and soothes; while a patient drifting in and out of consciousness might need a work that is not confusing, or that anchors them back into the present moment. “Artwork should also be culturally
specific and locally relevant.” At Bristol Royal Infirmary, award-
winning photographer, Simon Roberts, has created photographic artworks for inpatient wards across seven floors. The series of photographs and
collaged montages have been installed as wall vinyls, printed ceiling tiles, and framed images. Using images such as this, which
galleries and museums and believes the standard of artwork in hospitals should be comparable. Curator and co-founder, Niamh White,
said: “We believe that by putting artwork that might ordinarily be found in the National Portrait Gallery or the Tate in spaces that provide care to some of our most-vulnerable and isolated members of the community; we can instil people with dignity, value and wellbeing.” Focusing on delivering high-quality
projects also attracts much-needed funding for hospital arts schemes, she added.
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Artworks can remind people of their sense of self and identity outside of that of being a patient, reconnecting them with all they value and hold dear
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