Fusion - The Hand Out

Art at the Heart of the RUH

An Interdisciplinary Collaboration Between BSU and The Royal United Hospital

FUSION

Where Two Minds Collide @RUH_fusion | www.ruh.nhs.uk/art

Exciting collaboration opportunity All students All years welcome Arts, Science, Business, Education, Drama, Music, Creative writing

Art at the Heart at the Royal United Hospital (RUH), invites Bath Spa University students across all schools to participate in Fusion - A unique and exciting event taking place this summer.

Based at the RUH, this is an opportunity for students across all disciplines Arts, Science, Business, Education, Drama, Music, Creative writing etc to collaborate or work individually to produce responses relating to health and well being.

With corridors, waiting rooms, courtyards and even roof tops available there is potential for a diversity of works ranging from visual media to performance to spoken and written word or other curious collaborative outcomes.

With a footfall of 500,000 patients, staff and visitors per year, this is an ideal opportunity to participate in Arts and Health - a growing and vibrant public sector - as well as a great asset to your CV!

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AATH Background

With a footfall of 500,000 patients, staff and visitors per year, this is an ideal opportunity to participate in Arts and Health.

“A programme that shows the hospital in a good light is of benefit to the hospital�

Art at the Heart (AATH) presents a high quality programme of arts within the RUH for the benefit of patients, staff and visitors.

The programme covers the visual arts, music and literature through exhibitions, performances & readings together with participatory workshops for patients and staff.

Our Vision: We believe in a world where art and design is used to improve healthcare Our Mission: To support the Royal United Hospital with an innovative arts programme that stimulates healing and well-being and creates an uplifting environment for all who visit the hospital or work in it.

Our Objective: To deliver exhibitions, live music, creative activities for patients, staff and visitors and advise on art and design for RUH building projects

Staff Member

1. Brass Monkeys, Bruce Munro 2. West Central Corridor 3. Arctic Terns, Celia Smith 4. The Journey Edwina Bridgeman

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Exhibition Guidelines The key areas to exhibit at the hospital are the central corridor and the courtyards.

This is an exciting opportunity to explore work practice and exhibit site specific work in a public space dedicated to health and wellbeing. The work should therefore engage this context in a direct or in-direct way whilst ensuring it is suitable for a hospital environment.

For instance, it’s important not to depict nudity, violence or anything too distressing and work should not be construed as offensive by way of race, creed, gender or religion.

The key areas to exhibit at the hospital are the central corridor and the courtyards. However it could be possible to site work in any area; anywhere ranging from waiting rooms to roof tops depending on the nature of the work. Potential areas can be identified further during a site visit to the hospital.

"It is widely recognised that the arts have a key role to play in delivering an improved patient environment" 1

1. Atrium 2. Cranefly Courtyard

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We are keen to encourage a multidisciplinary response and promote a wide range of interpretations to the brief however it’s important to bear in mind that work needs to fulfil the hospital’s remit of enhancing the environment for the benefit of patients, staff and visitors.

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it’s important to bear in mind that work needs to fulfil the hospital’s remit of enhancing the environment for the benefit of patients, staff and visitors.

3. NICU reception 4. NICU Courtyard 5. Central ground floor corridor 6. Central stairwell 7. Atrium 8. Oncology waiting room

The work must therefore cohere to basic health and safety, infection control and fire regulations and there may be need for some work to be risk assessed. Please see link on website for more information relating to standard 2D artworks. Ideally work needs to be transitory and the installation should be easily removable without a lasting effect on the building, e.g. a need to re-paint the walls, etc. however there maybe exceptions to this subject to approval.

We are unable to assist with the costs towards the making of artwork or with any installation costs beyond the normal installation expense and this will require funding from another source.

These limitations can be seen are an integral part of the brief and an opportunity to explore the possible creative outcomes.

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The Proposed Judging Panel Cedric Christie

Cedric Christie was born in London in 1962, and lives and works in London. His work explores a broad range of cultural and art historical references, often using humour and irony as subtle vehicles of communication. He incorporates and manipulates every day objects such as snooker balls, scaffolding and even cars, creating sculptures that are meticulously and skilfully made.

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk (b 1967) is a British born, international artist. He has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture now taken for granted, including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art-historical icon and the use of rubbish in art.

Turk’s installations and sculptures deal with issues of authorship, authenticity and identity. Concerned with the ‘myth’ of the artist and the ‘authorship’ of a work, Turk’s engagement with this modernist, avant-garde debate stretches back to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp.

Dr Mike Osborn

Consultant Macmillan Clinical Psychologist, Royal United Foundation Trust Hospital Bath and Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Pain Management, University of Bath Dr Mike Osborn works in the area of chronic pain, cancer and critical care and has a longstanding interest in the experience of both being ill and being a patient and the assault that this has upon the person’s sense of self and the socio-cultural meaning this has. He has always been drawn to the struggle patients can have making sense of their illness and the many and varied obstacles there are to having access to a thick description of the lived experience of the unpleasantness of illness.

Steve Boxall

Head of Capital Projects, RUH Head of Capital Projects and Chair of the Art Strategy Group since 2009, Steve is a keen supporter of the arts, with a particular interest in art in the built environment. Steve has worked on a number of award winning developments at the hospital including The Dyson Centre for Neonatal Care and the recently refurbished Older Patients Dementia Friendly Ward.

Dates for diary [2015]

“Increasing numbers of clinicians and other professionals from the medical community are working side by side with arts professionals in both healthcare and community settings, and around the world the arts are emerging as an important and integral component of healthcare”.

Arts in Healthcare, 2009 State of Field Report

January

Site visit for interested applicants: 12 + 13 January 2015, 10:30am - 12:30pm, includes Q&A session

Febuary

Deadline for submissions: 20 February 2015

March

Judging and selection of artwork: Week commencing 2 March 2015 Notification to artists: 9 March 2015

April

Submission of information for catalogue, exhibition labels and statement: 30 April 2015

July

Installation date for all artwork: 13 -16 July 2015

September Celebration event: 30 September 2015

October

Exhibition take down: 2 October 2015

Resources and links Arts Council England Arts and Health South West Building Better Healthcare IXIA - Public Art Live Music Now Paintings in Hospital Superact The Wellcome Collection Vital Arts Willis Newson

Contact Fiona Costelloe Exhibitions Coordinator fiona.costelloe13@bathspa.ac.uk Tony Smith Exhibitions Manager tonysmith3@nhs.net | 01225 824987