Air Arts Air Arts was established in 2007 as the in-house arts programme for Derby Teaching Hospitals. Air Arts offers a wide range of visual arts, sculptures, live music, poetry, dance, drama and tailored creative activities for patients and staff at both of our hospital sites; The Royal Derby and London Road Community Hospitals. Through our programme we hope to provide moments of distraction from illness and negative thoughts, to aid wellbeing, support recovery and improve the hospital experience for everyone, whether patient, staff or visitor. 2017 saw us celebrating our tenth anniversary and 2018 is already shaping up to be another great year of new projects and partnerships, as well as developing new work with current artists. Our Alchemy exhibition takes its inspiration from the ancient art of turning base metals into gold, and our artists have been busy exploring the wider art of positive transformation through a variety of different media; art, craft, photography and poetry. The theme of alchemy will also be used as a starting point for our welldressings in May which will be open to all staff and visitors to take part. Air Arts relies entirely on charitable donations and public funding to deliver this innovative programme of wellbeing through the arts, so if you would like to support us in our work, or find out more about what we do, please visit the website or call us on 01332 786201. We hope you enjoy Air Arts ‘Alchemy’. Laura Waters Arts Programme Manager, Air Arts
Source image on front cover, courtesy of Jane Bevan
This booklet is a trail guide to the artworks at Royal Derby Hospital. There are artworks on every level for you to dip into or view as a whole using the trail map. Follow the purple trail to see new artworks on display as part of this Alchemy exhibition. Works in our ‘temporary’ collection are denoted by an orange circle. Works in our permanent collection are denoted by a green circle. Please see the index at the back of this booklet for further details.
Some of the Alchemy artworks are for sale, with a percentage of the proceeds going to Derby Hospitals Charity. To purchase artworks, please see the details on the panel next to the work, or contact laura@airarts.net
Alchemy was the forerunner of chemistry and a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination. Metaphorically though, it means so much more and is rich in creative inspiration; providing artists with many different ways to express their response to the theme. The Alchemy art on display at the Royal Derby site is made up of works created by Morph Dynamic Creatives, Steffie Richards, Peter’s Name, and Padley Development Centre. Thanks to all artists for allowing us to exhibit their lovely work and make our hospital more welcoming through their creativity. Fi Burke Alchemy Curator and Air Arts Visual Arts Coordinator
fi@airarts.net
“Art can make a real difference to the lives of patients, visitors and staff. It’s wonderful to work with Air Arts, who truly understand how art can inspire better health.” Amisha Karia, Head of Collection, Loans & Programming, Paintings in Hospitals
Artworks from the Paintings in Hospitals collection by Quentin Blake at Peterborough City Hospital
A partnership between Paintings in Hospitals & Air Arts We’re working together to inspire better health and wellbeing for patients, carers and communities across the East Midlands. At Paintings in Hospitals, we use art to inspire better health and wellbeing around the UK.
how art can be used to transform a care environment. They then choose artworks they’d like to use in their own space, meaning the display here will continuously change over time.
Like Air Arts, we know that art can help us stay well, aid our recovery, and support us to live longer, better The Paintings in Hospitals collection is lives. We think everyone should the only art loan collection dedicated to have the chance to benefit from art, inspiring better health. The collection so we're dedicated to bringing it to began in 1959 and contains over 4,000 them through our artwork loans and artworks, including pieces by Andy creative activities. Warhol, Bridget Riley, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Maggi Hambling. We’re very pleased that Royal Derby Hospital is the new home of our East You can see our artworks on Level 1 Midlands showcase. of the hospital at locations E and J. We have six showcases in hospitals across the UK: Birmingham, London, Cardiff, York, Bristol and Bury St Edmunds. These special partners display up to 100 artworks from our collection. The artworks are available for all care organisations throughout the region to borrow. This means that care organisations from across the East Midlands can visit our showcase at Royal Derby Hospital to see a great example of
If you want to know more about borrowing artworks for your care site, get in touch. Call us on 0207 407 3222 or send us an email to: admin@paintingsinhospitals.org.uk.
paintingsinhospitals.org.uk @artinhospitals paintingsinhospitals paintingsinhospitals
Paintings in Hospitals is a Registered Charity (No. 1065963)
Patient Experience Week 23-27 April 2018 Following the success of last year’s Patient Experience week, Air Arts is delighted to be part of this again in 2018, offering a full range of activities to support staff in delivering the best possible holistic patient care and to support patients and visitors to improve their experience of being in hospital. There will be daily live music and a variety of creative activities offered to patients on wards, including new workshops by Alchemy artist Jane Bevan, Victoria Brown’s Painting pool workshops, the Imaginarium and the Knitting Nanas to banish boredom and lift spirits. We will also be publishing two new booklets; ‘Colour me, read me’ will feature a selection of short stories written by patients and staff with illustrations to colour in, and ‘What a day’ written by a former patient Elizabeth Stevens for the Children’s hospital.
London Road Community Hospital Alchemy is a combined exhibition across both of our hospital sites and we are proud to have such a great variety of art work displayed across more than 60 art boards. Through our joint exhibition we are connecting our two sites together under the same artistic themes but our London Road site will have more of a community feel to the artwork to reflect its status as a community hospital. Further details on art and artists exhibiting at London Road Community Hospital can be found towards the back of this booklet.
Morph Dynamic Creatives Artworks by Morph Dynamic Creatives can be seen throughout the hospital Morph Dynamic Creatives is a Derby based collective of artists whose aim is to take contemporary art to a variety of audiences in both gallery and nongallery spaces and to support and challenge each other to develop both creatively and professionally. They were formed in 2003 by a group of Fine Art graduates from the University of Derby. The members cover a wide range of disciplines including painting, printing ,photography and sculpture. Alchemy in its widely accepted sense, is the transformation of base metals into gold. As a metaphor though, it represents many different things to different people, particularly in the artistic sense. To a group of artists practicing a variety of art disciplines, Alchemy suggests change, whether, chemical, biological,
physical, spiritual or emotional and as such lends itself to a number of artistic responses. In choosing to exhibit at the Royal Derby Hospital, our group , in all its diversity, hopes to express the nature of change and transformation, not least the journey from illness to healing. Past exhibitions include the Conkers theme park at Moria, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Deda Dance Centre, Burton Brewhouse, the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, Holywell Mill Ashby de la Zouch, Derby Royal Infirmary and The Green Man Gallery Buxton. If you would like more information about Morph please visit our website at http://www.morph-creatives.co.uk
‘Pictures and Poems’ a collaboration between poets and photographers. Level 1 near the Multifaith Centre Photography by Synergy We are a local group of friends who are all very enthusiastic amateur photographers. We have been meeting together for several years and registered as an official club about one year ago. There are just nine of us at present. We each have particular areas of interest or expertise but we also try a wide range of subjects and styles. We regularly submit our images to national and international exhibitions and we have each gained a range of awards and qualifications for our work. We are pleased to have been invited to participate in this exhibition and hope it will be the first of many.
If you would like to know more about Synergy then please contact me at sarah@slmiddleton.co.uk
Poetry by PM Poets PM Poets, responded to the theme of Alchemy by writing a selection of poems. We formed a collaboration with the photographers at Synergy who then responded to our poems in photographic form. If you like writing poetry and want to try and capture emotions in words then come and join us at our monthly meetings. We usually write a couple of poems a month to known themes or topics. In a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, we critique each other’s work and offer comments, reflections and suggestions. We always welcome new members to come and join us and share their thoughts, ideas and their poems.
PM Poets meets at Derby Museum on the second Tuesday of every month between 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel. Ken Hewitt 01332 382683
Steffie Richards Steffie is fascinated with the restorative qualities associated with being in the vicinity of the coastal environment and its link to the age old practice of sending the “sick and infirm” to the seaside to recuperate. Steffie’s recent work has been supported by an Arts Council award for Research and Development and aims to explore her relationship with coastal Cornwall. The work exhibited here is a reflection of things which are important to the artist - fleeting glances of personal experience, special moments (sometimes unexplainable) and her current enchantment with the sand, sea, and surf environment of coastal Cornwall. This is where she feels at one with the environment; answers as to why this is a calm and grounding place to her will only come through making the work, and reflecting upon these enchanting moments. The unique painterly techniques Steffie has employed to create art specifically for Alchemy aims to capture the transient and often awesome metamorphisms which can often go unnoticed except in rudimentary passing comment. It is the ‘visually invisible’ physical clutter which Steffie speculates as being left behind of an experience of ours which we can no longer prove existed. Steffie’s work can be seen on Level 5. richardssteffie@gmail.com
Padley Development Centre After looking at the word Alchemy we have focussed on what we now see as science would have been considered magical. We have pursued metals that have been found in the ground, specifically gold and how time has transformed it’s properties. Sutton Hoo has been inspirational and portrayed in our clay work with the addition of the earth’s strata’s. In Arts & Crafts we have explored earth, air, fire and water as a collective and in Woodwork we have changed the basic element of wood through fire. All of our learners at Padley Development Centre have learning disabilities, mental health issues or a mixture of both and are supported by caring tutors and volunteers. For more information on Padley, please go to our website: www.padley.com
Level
0
A B C
Padley Development Centre
Breast Unit
Radiotherapy
Cardiac Rehab
AA
Access to Level 0 is via Entrance 24 then take the lifts or stairs down to level 0. If entering via the main entrance, look for signs to Radiotherapy and Cardiac Rehabilitation.
C B B
Level
1 Maternity & Gynaecology
Chi Ho
N
Pha Breast Unit
M Nightingale Macmillan Day Unit
Specialist Outpatients
Multifaith Centre
L
J ENTRANCE 24 Cancer Services
K
Lymphoedema Clinic Info Centre
B
Endoscopy
H E
F
A
G Medical Outpatients
M Pictures and Poems
MAIN ENTRANCE
L Pictures and Poems
Education Centre
Rehabilitation
Children’s Hospital
P
P
Michelle Neale
Pharmacy
Accident & Emergency
Michelle’s work will change throughout Alchemy and you can influence how it changes.
X-Ray Blood Clinic
O
Ward 101
HI Medical Assessment Unit
D
Orthopaedic Outpatients
Surgical Coronary Assessment Care
N
ENTRANCE 9 (Renal Level 4)
E
Helen Joyce
F J
E
Paintings in hospitals
Level
2
X Jane Bevan
Maternity & Gynaecology
Children’s Hospital
X
Wards 203 - 207
W V
Intensive
W Valerie Bradbury
Our Trust Library welcomes visitors to come and look at the artworks on display during library opening hours
Monday to Friday, 8am-7pm. Education Centre
Y
Rehabilitation Library
Y Del Coombs
S Theatre
Q
U
T
Footbridge to KTC
nsive Care Unit
Theatre
R
V Betty Norton Julie Craig
Level
3
Lesley Warrington
Maternity & Gynaecology
AA
Wards 301 - 306
Z Familial Cancer
Z Eric Higginson
BB Lorriane Clewlow
Education Centre
Children’s Hospital
Rehabilitation
BB Helen Joyce
Wards 307 - 313
BB
Kester Savage
AA
BB
Level
4 CC Rosamond Woodrow
Wards 402 - 406
CC CC
DD
Katie Petraitis
EE Del Coombs
BB EE BB
Wards 408 - 410
DD
EE Nicki Dennett
Level
5 FF
GG
Ross Danby
Duncan Thurlby
Corporate Services
EE FF EE FF
Facilities Management
FF Pip Herbert
You do the work! Another thought provoking sculpture by Pip Herbert
nt
HH
Steffie Richards
GG
HH
Pathology
INDEX FOR ARTWORKS ON DISPLAY THROUGHOUT THE ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL Level Index 0
Arti s t and/or work
A,B,C Padley Development Centre
Contact Details www.padley.com
1
D
1
E,F
1
G
1
H
Laura Ellen
www.lauraellenbacon.com
1
I
Elaine Lim-Newton
www.elainelimnewton.com
1
J
Will Stone
www.findthewill.org
1
J
Paintings in Hospitals
www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk
1
K
The Apothecary
1
L,M
1
Susie McMurray’s Lifelines
www.susie-macmurray.co.uk
Paintings in Hospitals
www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk
Paul Cummins
www.paulcumminsceramics.com
Tulip garden
PM Poets & Synergy
sarah@slmiddleton.co.uk
N
Helen Joyce
www.helenjoyce.co.uk
1
O
Lynne Hollingsworth
www.hdart.co.uk
1
P
Michelle Neale
michelle.neale@hotmail.com
1
Q
Helen Meakin
helenmeakin05@hotmail.co.uk
2
R
Kelvin E Thomas
n/a
2
S
Diana Shepherd
www.dianashepherd.co.uk
2
T
Space for future work
2
U
Angela Verdon
www.angelaverdon.com
White Shadows by Angela Verdon has been loaned by QUAD, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AS www.derbyquad.co.uk
Level Index
Y
Arti s t and/or work
Contact Details
2
V
Betty Norton
bettynorton@talktalk.net
2
W
Valerie Bradbury
valeriejbradbury@gmail.com
2
X
Jane Bevan
www.janebevan.co.uk
2
Y
Del Coombs
del.coombs@ntlworld.com
2
Y
Sir Peter Blake
n/a
3
Z
Eric Higginson
clairey124@hotmail.com
3
AA
Lesley Warrington
www.lesleywarrington.co.uk
3
BB
Kester Savage
kestersavage@gmail.com
3
BB
Lorriane Clewlow
lorraineclewlow@mail.com
3
BB
Helen Joyce
www.helenjoyce.co.uk
4
CC
Rosamond Woodrow
rosamond@woodrowr.entadsl.com
4
DD
Katie Petraitis
katie.petraitis@ntlworld.com
4
EE
Del Coombs
del.coombs@ntlworld.com
4
EE
Nicki Dennett
nicola.dennett@btinternet.com
5
FF
Ross Danby
ross_danby@yahoo.com
5
FF
Pip Herbert
Receipt and Distribution
5
GG
Duncan Thurlby
www.duncanthurlbysculpturegallery.co.uk
5
HH
Steffie Richards
www.steffierichards-fineartist.co.uk
Sir Peter Blake’s print was inspired by the unusual subject of the coming of smart meters to every home in Great Britain.
Key Alchemy Temporary Permanent
Focus on London Road Community Hospital There are details below about all the artworks on display at London Road Community Hospital. To take a tour, enter through the main entrance, take the first set of stairs on the left signposting you up to level 3.
Milliners Memories project This project began with a period of research by historical milliner Jo Lance and the AIR Arts Co-ordinators at LRCH. The research included handling of the Pickford House Museums’ glorious hat collection from the nineteenth century up to the1960’s. The team then worked together with the patients on the wards at LRCH, to explore memories of making things we have worn, including hats for special occasions and items we have stitched, knitted, crafted or woven. The hat sculptures on display in the cabinet are a culmination of this series of workshops inspired by the forms, shapes, textures and patterns of the collection along with the patients’ impressions. You will also see a beautiful bespoke hat created by Jo which was informed by her time working with the patients on the project. Follow the photograph trail at LRCH from the main reception along to the display cabinet on Junction 6. The exhibition will move on from LRCH in Autumn 2018 to be displayed in a bespoke cabinet at Pickford House Museum.
Sue Mulroy & Deb Rose
Anne Menary
suemulroy@hotmail.com rose.deb@yahoo.com
www.annemenary.com
Stevie Davis
Natalie Adlard
www.stevie-davies.co.uk
www.facebook.com/Vintage-Photo
Artworks can be seen throughout Level 3 from the foyer outside the League of Friends, in the corridors and in the staircase entrance to Wards 3, 4, 5, 6.
Andrea Southey
Neil Hodgkinson
www.andreasouthey.wixsite.com/artist
Twitter: Artbyneilhodgkinson
Valerie Dalling
John McDonald
www.valeriedalling.com
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JohnMcDonaldArtist
“Beautiful prints on the walls of Royal Derby Hospital cheered me up on an otherwise anxious day” Patient Feedback
“I am utterly impressed and delighted by the work that has taken place in the Royal Derby and London Road Hospitals by Air Arts and those who, alongside Arts Council England, have provided funding for this inspiring programme.” Ed Vaizey
“What you do is a wonderful thing … it means a lot to see art on the wall it really does lift my spirits in an otherwise quite bland and sometimes worrying space.” Staff Feedback
Coming Soon......artworks and music performances by students at St Claire’s school, Derby