A visit to hospital can be a worrying experience whether you are a patient, relative or just visiting. Once hospitals were forbidding, austere places but over recent years, with encouragement from the Department of Health and others, many hospitals have transformed the healthcare environment by using the special skills of artists and craftspeople.
Exeter Health Care Arts (EHCA) was established in 1992 as the arts project for the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.
The organisation’s work has three main strands:
Live art events - performances and workshops for patients and the public in communal spaces and within the wards of hospitals
Exhibitions - the individual presentation of artists’ work in public and clinical areas of the hospitals, and a programme of changing solo and group exhibitions
Capital projects - environmental schemes in public and clinical areas, both inside and out.
I am exhibiting a complete display of all my limited editions at Exeter RD&E (Wonford Site) from the 21st May – 21st August 2009