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

11 August – 6 October

Landscapes & Skys

Addenbrooke’s Arts Gallery (corridor between the Concourse and Rosie Wards)

The sky has been a source of inspiration in varying ways for the three local artists exhibiting with us this month. Virginia Albutt likes to begin her work with the sky, ‘because it brings to life the hue and dept of the landscape’. For Charlotte Garrod and Jess Sutton, painting the sky is one way of recording a moment in time. In Charlotte’s minimalist paintings she captures changing moments and movements of plants and landscapes in East Anglian. It was throughout May 2009 that Jess photographed the sky daily and from these created a fascinating ‘Skylogue’of paintings.

All work will be exhibited and for sale at our gallery in the corridor between the Concourse and Rosie Wards. Further information from Addenbrooke’s Arts 01223 217519