• Milly Peck, Relief in Shadow Play

    Milly Peck’s installation at Mile End Hospital, her first commission within healthcare, extends throughout the Max Caplin Unit, which treats respiratory conditions.

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  • The Poetry Takeaway

    A burger van that serves poems at St. Bartholomew’s hospital

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  • Hurvin Anderson, Trilogy

    Anderson’s first permanent public art commission in the UK are three paintings depicting a tranquil beach for the Royal London Hospital.

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  • Lauren Godfrey, What We Wore

    Newham Hospital’s St Andrew’s Wing atrium has been transformed into a ‘Pattern Portrait’ of the hospital community.

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  • ‘The time has come to recognise the powerful contribution the arts can make to our health and wellbeing.’

    Rt Hon Lord Howarth of Newport, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing

  • “[The patient] can be a bit reluctant when it comes to physiotherapy – we have to employ all sorts of distraction and delaying techniques. This session was a brilliant way to get her heart rate up in a fun way. We met the physiotherapy targets we were aiming for while [the patient] enjoyed the process. Perfect!”

    Senior Physiotherapist Barts Health, 2015

  • “Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in objects presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.”

    Florence Nightingale, 1859