Specific projects:

• Visual arts – we curate all the paintings on the hospital site (some 4,000 paintings). We are always attempting to improve the co-ordination of their display to make best use of their value in improving the hospital environment. The collection is constantly being renewed and added to as the hospital expands and we also run a number of temporary exhibitions of works by professional and community artists in the gallery in the Clown corridor.

• The built environment – we are working with the Estates team integrating artworks into major developments and smaller refurbishments of areas around the hospital. Currently, Addenbrooke’s Arts is in the process of commissioning an artist to create a large artwork for the atrium of the new Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre as well as a number of other commissions.

• Performing arts – we co-ordinate performances on wards by a range of musicians and have also set up and run the Jimmy Teens TV project working with teenage cancer patients.

Plans for the future:


Addenbrooke’s Arts is currently discussing a number of ideas with wards and departments across the hospital.

• Visual arts – ward enhancements, new gallery spaces, a staff arts club, using the arts as a tool for health promotion, and setting up regular artist-led workshops on specific wards.

• The built environment – a number of commissions for the landscape outside the new Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre, artworks to support the new multi-storey car park, art in garden spaces around the new breast unit, integrated artworks in the proposed Forum and new Children’s Hospital.

• Performing arts – regular performances in the chapel and the atrium of the Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre, outdoor drive-in screenings in car parks, film screenings on wards, regular music workshops on wards.

Additionally we are establishing links with local arts organisations to encourage professional artists to work with us in bringing increased arts activity to the hospital.
 

Last updated: 19 June, 2007