Rowena Dring and Nike Savass
The Garden That You Planted
Vital Arts, Royal London Hospital and Vital Arts Gallery, Barts Hospital
Rowena Dring and Nike Savvas have become increasingly intuitive to each others work since they met in 1996. This collaborative exhibition, developed specifically for the galleries at Barts and the Royal London, is inspired by the artist's shared experience of living in a dilapidated French chateau last summer. The show includes work by each artist, as well as works created together which combine their individual approaches to landscape, and to the chateau’s parkland.
22nd October – 29th January 2010
Fiona Curren
Vital Arts, Royal London Hospital
Fiona Curran’s work refers to historical traditions of applied decorative arts
whilst borrowing from the seductive colour palette of contemporary advertising
and the computer screen.
Vital Arts has recently commissioned Curran to create a site specific work for
the new Barts and The London Health and Wellness Centre, 34 Ashfield Street,
London, E1.
Rana Begum
Vital Arts Gallery, Barts Hospital
Rana Begum’s work draws on geometric patterns found within Islamic art and architecture,
and the colliding forms of contemporary urban spaces. Repetition and symmetry temper
hard-edged industrial materials as Begum presents us with a momentary alignment of form,
light and colour.
4th June- 29th September 2009
Jochen Klein
Vital Arts Gallery, Royal London Hospital 
Jochen Klein composes photographs from everyday materials such as old t-shirts,
twigs and cotton wool to produce epic images of idealised natural vistas. His sensitive
and intriguing work encourages the viewer to question perceptions of both the
photographic image and the natural world.
A series of limited editions of Jochen's work are available from our shop.
Jem Southam
Vital Arts Gallery, Barts Hospital
Jem Southam is one of Britain’s foremost landscape photographers. Often producing a body of
work through repeated visits to sites over time, Southam’s prevailing thematic concerns are the
changes, large and small, occurring within the British countryside. He has said that he proposes
“histories,” both social and natural.
26th February - 20th May 2009
Hannah Brown
Vital Arts Gallery, Barts Hospital
Hannah Brown’s practice investigates the representation of the English visual and social landscape. In this new series of work, featuring oil
painting, installation and photography, Brown focused on movement and time within a landscape as portrayed through the use of the Diptych
Oona Culley
Vital Arts Gallery, Royal London Hospital
Vital Arts, Barts HospitalOona Culley uses form and composition to explore perceptions of presence
and absence, memory and forgetting; the dramatic silhouettes of trees currently growing are shadowed
by traces of trees from days gone by. Oona combined photographs of trees around the hospital grounds
and imagery from The Royal London Museum archives, to produce a site specific artwork.
20th October 2008 – 15th January 2009
Material Worlds: Group Show
Vital Arts Galleries, Royal London and Barts Hospital
From Sarah Bridgland’s exploded staple boxes to Chisato Tamabayashi’s beautiful folding books, the diverse works
in this ten-strong group exhibition share a powerful material element. The skilled trace of each artist’s hand offers an
intriguing entry point into their imaginary worlds. Exhibiting artists: Claire Brewster, Tracey Bush, Anka Dabrowska,
Michelle McKinney, Chisato Tamabayashi, Thurle Wright, Sarah Bridgland, Manami Hayasaki, Chris Kenny and
GeorgiaRussell.
A series of limited editions by Anka Dabrowska are available from our shop.
29th May to 1st September 2008
Catherine Morland: Fugitive Moments
Vital Arts Gallery, Barts Hospital
An exhibition of Catherine Morland’s ongoing series of drawings using smoke on glass,
in which the artist investigates our engagement with and perception of the world around
us. The unstable, temporary nature of the smoke alludes to the instability of vision and
memory retrieval.
Rachel Goodyear: Unable To Stop Because They Were Too Close To The Line
Vital Arts Gallery, Royal London Hospital
A collection of drawings conveying a personal experience of having cancer will be on
display in The Royal London Hospital’s main corridor from 29th May until
2008
undergoing six months of chemotherapy in her home city.
A series of limited editions are available from our shop.
18th February – 7th May 2008
Helga Steppan: All My Things
Vital Arts Gallery, Royal London Hospital
All My Things an exhibition of photographs by Helga Steppan in which all of the
artist’s possessions were organised and displayed and photographed according to
their colour.
12th September – 1 December 2007
Robert Ryan
Vital Arts Gallery, Royal London Hospital
An exhibition of prints by the acclaimed illustrator, paper cutter and screenprinter.