Darren Almond, Susan Derges, Simon Patterson, Sophy Rickett
Looking Up, 2010
Digital prints on lightbox panels, 2010
Radiotherapy, St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Artworks by Darren Almond, Susan Derges, Simon Patterson and Sophy Rickett have been been commissioned for the Radiotherapy Department. Once inside the lead-lined, bunker-like rooms, patients can feel anxious in the darkened spaces. Patients are required to lie very still whilst receiving radiotherapy treatment, so these back-lit artworks overhead provide a point of focus. Images of reconfigured celestial constellations, magical tree canopies and moonlit flowers are installed as light-boxes into the ceilings of each treatment area, giving patients the opportunity to feel transported away from the everyday.
