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.

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."

Latest Events

7 January to 2 March 2010

Robin & Isobel Stemp

Photography and Painting Exhibition

This month we welcome a combined photographic and watercolour painting exhibition by two local artists, mother and daughter, Robin and Isobel Stemp.

The weather, view and Isobel’s emotional response play an important part in how she interprets landscapes. Isobel aims to convey a sense of joy and colour in her loosely applied watercolour paintings.

Natural light is essential for Robin’s unusual photography and why many of the images have the time and date they were taken as the titles. Robin creates minimalist interiors in miniature, allowing the natural shifting light onto the scene for its varying colours and intensity.

The exhibition is on display as usual in our gallery space on the corridor between the Concourse and Rosie Wards and all the work is for sale.