PAEDIATRICS A & E ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL
Jacques Nimki
The Paediatrics A & E Service at the Royal London Hospital, the busiest acute hospital in London, is getting an innovative new art commission by
London-based artist Jacques Nimki. Working in close consultation with clinical staff and young patients, Nimki is bringing the 'outside in' with an
art commission that will help to make the department more welcoming. Nimki works with plants that are found in the urban environment - the overlooked
signs of life trampled underfoot. For this commission, he is researching the weeds and wild flowers found growing all around the hospital and the local area.
His artworks, celebrating the simple beauty of these wild plants, will be installed throughout the department on windows, doors and walls, urging visitors
to notice the poetry latent in the everyday.