Addenbrooke's Arts

Welcome to Addenbrooke's Arts

Addenbrooke’s Arts enhances the hospital environment for patients, visitors and staff, by lifting the spirit and bringing pleasure through an innovative, stimulating and engaging arts programme including visual and performance arts.

Our music and poetry projects are generously funded by the Arts Council, England. If you are an artist, poet, musician or performer and would like to get involved, please contact the Art Curator at the address below.

Latest Events

‘Celebration of nature’ exhibition

29 Feb – 25 April

Layered contemporary photographic work by Clare Dawson and botanical illustrations by Reinhild Raistrick, are a wonderful celebration of nature.  This exhibition features Reinhild’s paintings of exotic flowers from various parts of the world, often taken in situ, and Clare’s stunning floral layers, taken with her camera, create unusual and unique images.

The gallery is situated on the corridor between the Concourse and Rosie Wards.

25% commission from sales goes towards running the arts programme.  01223 217519

Support for Addenbrooke’s Arts

On September 16, 2009, Andrew Lansley, MP for South Cambridgeshire and Shadow Secretary of State for Health visited addenbrooke’s to unveil a painting donated to the hospital’s Lysosomal Disorders Unit

At the unveiling he commented, “Addenbrooke’s has one of the best hospital arts collections… Hospitals serve a broader purpose, treating the whole person not just the disease. Illness is not just physiological it is also psychological and art helps to raise peoples’ spirits and hopes.”

David Howarth, MP for Cambridge toured the hospital arts project on August 21, 2009. Following the tour, Mr Howarth said: "This is a really inspiring project. The diverse range of work using many different techniques brightens up the long corridors and public areas of the hospital. The various different pieces are a talking point and it is encouraging to think that a visit to hospital, which in many cases can be a nerve-wracking and worrying time, could be made a little easier by this project. I wish it every success for the future."