GOSH Arts Annual Review 2018-2019

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Annual Review 2018/19

GOSH Arts is funded by Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity with support from The Mead Family Foundation.

Cover image: Kinds of Life, Random International. See page 11 Inside cover image: NHS70, Davina Drummond. See page 23 Family Arts Week, Georgina Davy >

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH)

Annual Review 2018/19

GOSH Arts 5 Highlights 7 Commissioning 11

Zayed Centre for Research

into Rare Disease in Children 11

Sight and Sound Centre

Supported by Premier Inn 17 Programme 21 NHS70 23

Threads 25

The Heart of the Matter 27 Art Collection 29

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We know what the NHS does is life-saving. But what the arts and social activities do is life-enhancing (...) they’re essential to our health and wellbeing. - Matt Hancock MP, Health and Social Care Secretary

GOSH Arts In the year the NHS celebrated its 70th birthday, arts and health was firmly in the spotlight with speeches from Health Secretary Matt Hancock, and a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport inquiry extolling the benefits and highlighting the evidence.

At GOSH Arts our work develops along differing time frames. Our participatory programme responds annually to current themes and events, whereas many of our commissions take years to develop in careful ongoing consultation with patients and staff. This year has seen topical projects such as our response to the NHS at 70, see p23, and the commissioning of a number of large scale artworks that will create inspiring, playful and welcoming environments for patients, families and staff for years to come.

In this special anniversary year we feel more confident than ever of the worth of the arts to the NHS and their power to transform health – for the next 70 years and beyond!

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Culture and sport play a major role in how we see our nation.

What we’ve focused on in our inquiry is the transformative power of culture and sport not just to enrich the value of our lives but to address a range of long-standing social problems.

- Damian Collins MP, DCMS Committee Chair

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Fantastic resource within the hospital which supported my daughter.

- GOSH parent

Highlights • We commissioned several major artworks, from internationally renowned artists including Random International, Mark Titchner, Oliver Beer, Lubna Chowdhary. See p11-19.

• Our Art Collection – a two year project to audit, catalogue and maintain the hospital art collection, resulted in an exhibition, resources for patients and staff, and greater public access. See p31.

• NHS70 – a special celebration of the NHS for patients, families and staff. See p23.

• Heart of the Matter – a national touring exhibition that reached over 100,000 people. See p29.

• We gave evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry on the impact of arts participation on health and wellbeing.

• We were recognised with an Action for Children’s Arts Members Award and were Highly Commended at the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2018.

• We gained positive press coverage of GOSH Arts, with 17 pieces on The Heart of the Matter alone, including national BBC radio, and eight published journal articles.

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Thank you for teaching me how to play a guitar. I had an amazing time. A big thank you!

- GOSH patient

Thank you to all our collaborators this year!

Ali Winstanley All Your Dance Needs Anna Ledgard Anne Harild Art UK Blossom and Crumb Brian Lobel Caroline Smith Cecilia Knapp Chichester Festival Theatre Dana Al Mazrouei David McKenny Davina Drummond Designmap Drew Archie Eames Fine Art Elven Design Ella Hempstead Emily Haworth Booth Emily Speed Emily Underwood-Lee Factory Settings Faiza Yasin Frances Gallagher Francisco Zhan Gary Day George Simkin

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Georgina Davy Giovani Biglino Hannah Treharne Heather McClelland Helen Farley Iroko Ishbel Mull Isobel Manning Jason Bruges Jefford Horrigan Joanna Brinton Joe Danks Joe McGrail John Kelly Judge Justin Piperger Judith Brocklehurst Kimberly Harvey Lena Wurz Lubna Chowdhary Mark Levin Mark Titchner Marysa Dowling Matt Shaw MDM Muff Architecture/Art Naomi Hammerton

National Portrait Gallery Nickie Miles-Wildin Nicky Hirst Nicola Petto Oily Cart Oliver Beer Paintings in Hospitals Peut-Ă&#x160;tre Theatre Phil Greenwood Random International Roses Theatre Sarah Blanc Scoop Scott Mead Fine Art Photography Serious Sofie Layton Studio Hato Testament The Sugar Sisters The vacuum cleaner Tim Burrough Victoria & Albert Museum Victoria Henstock Why Not Associates Wildwood Gallery Wonderland Design

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Random International’s concept is unique and inspirational. It embodies, curiosity, dynamism, learning all of which are important attributes of the Zayed Centre for Research. - Staff member

Commissioning The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children The Zayed Centre for Research is a collaboration between GOSH and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Heath. Designed by Stanton Williams architects, it brings together world–class scientific and clinical expertise. The art strategy for the Centre aims to deliver a series of bespoke art commissions for patients, families, staff and visitors that enrich the environment.

The art programme responds to the design of the building and integrated art installations support the architectural aspirations, facilitating chance encounters and exchanges between researchers and clinicians. Additionally, the art commissions will convey, in a creative way, the importance of research into rare diseases by engaging the building users and public. The art commissions are a celebration of the collaborative and visionary nature of the Zayed Centre for Research.

Kinds of Life Kinds of Life is a moving sculpture that lives at the heart of the Centre and engages with its visitors. Responding to its surrounding environment in real time, the sculpture’s behaviour changes continually. In this work, the collaborative art studio Random International seeks to experiment with notions of consciousness. Inspired by conversations with researchers, Kinds of Life is intended as an exploration of how it might feel to share the world with non-human intelligence and what the fields of artificial intelligence and evolutionary biology can learn from one another. Together, the sculpture and the Centre reflect the idea of curiosity leading to discovery.

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The artworks in the Zayed Centre for Research are truly inspiring – well-conceived and executed and they truly bring the space to life.

- GOSH Children’s Charity staff member

Together We Can Do So Much Mark Titchner is well known for his artworks that use found text to explore the shared values and beliefs of different groups of people. The text featured in this 8m wood relief artwork is from a quote by Helen Keller, author, political activist and advocate for people with disabilities. The words presented here as a slogan, together with the interconnected design, based on connectivity, flows and interweaving pathways and networks reference the unique cross platform approach to paediatric research and care that the Zayed Centre for Research will provide.

The Same and Different During her time as artist-in-residence at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Dana Al Mazrouei led a number of creative workshops that explored the theme of genetics with children, young people and their families. The residency inspired this series of tactile, circular

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artworks each representing a visualisation of a genome. Each artwork uses the same circular shape with an individual pattern and combination of colours symbolising the similarity but uniqueness of a human genome.

HUMAN Homo

RING-TAILED LEMUR Lemur

WOLF Canis

CHIMPANZEE Pan

APES

TREE SHREW HORSE

LION

Equus

RHINOCEROS

TOUCAN

Tupaia

PRIMATES

Talpa

Oryctolagus

KING PENGUIN Aptenodytes

ODD-TOED UNGULATES

Diceros

SEAL

BEAR

Phoca

Design agency Designmap have created a series of interactive installations for the waiting areas in the Outpatients Department. The installations will engage, distract, educate and entertain the young patients while they wait. A series of playful, physical games and digital interactives, including a puzzle about cells and a bespoke app about gene editing, will allow waiting patients to interpret and understand the science happening in the building.

The scientific content and user experience has been developed through a series of collaborative workshops with children, young people and scientists which were led by Designmap and artist Judith Brocklehurst.

Archaeopteryx

Rattus

Erinaceus

SPERM WHALE Physeter

RAT

HEDGEHOG

CARNIVORES

Outpatient Interactive Installations

Ramphastos

RABBIT

MOLE

Panthera

Ursus

RODENTS

AARDVARK Orycteropus

EVEN-TOED UNGULATES

FALCON

BAT

KING SNAKE

Falco

KOALA

Phascolarctos

Hippopotamus

Tyrannosaurus

Lampropeltis

Rhinolophus

HIPPOPOTAMUS

IGUANA Iguana

ELEPHANT

KANGAROO ANT

Formica

DUGONG

Loxodonta

Macropus

STAR TORTOISE

EUTHERIANS

Dugong

WASP

Geochelone

REPTILES & BIRDS

MARSUPIALS

Vespula

SCORPION CRAB

SPIDER

BUTTERFLY

Argiope

Inachis

MILLIPEDE

CHELICERATES

CRUSTACEANS

TROUT

Oncorhynchus

SPOTTED EAGLE RAY TIGERSHARK

HEXAPODS

Helianthus

Cepaea

GASTROPODS

PEANUT WORM

STARFISH SEA CUCUMBER

VELVET WORM Peripatus

Phoronis

ANNELIDS

BRACHIOPODS

ANIMALS

LAND PLANTS

FUNGI

FLOWERING PLANTS

CNIDARIANS

JELLYFISH Chrysaora

SPONGES

RED SEAWEEDS CHROMALVEOLATES

Amoeba

SPONGE

Nymphaea

MONOCOTS

OAT Avena

Oscarella

EUKARYOTES

Calliblepharis

SPIROCHAETE OAR WEED

Bugula

MOLLUSCS

WATERLILY

PLANTS

MOSS ANIMAL

PHORONIDS

MUSSEL

BRYOZOANS

Pteridium

Amanita

Auricularia

PROTOSTOMES LOPHOTROCHOZOANS

EARTHWORM Lumbricus

INVERTEBRATES

BRACKEN FERN

FLY AGARIC

JELLY FUNGUS

Fromia

ECDYSOZOANS

SIPUNCULIDS

LAMPSHELL Lingula

ECHINODERMS

Parastichopus

Sipunculus

HORSESHOE WORM

EUDICOTS

Paradoxides

ARTHROPODS

CEPHALOPODS

Amphiprion

VERTEBRATES

Strongylocentrotus

TRILOBITE

COMMON OAK Quercus

CLOWNFISH

SEA URCHIN

Coccinella

SUNFLOWER

Aetobatus

Galeocerdo

LADYBIRD BANDED SNAIL

Eusthenopteron

TETRAPODS

Tachypodoiulus

MYRIAPODS

INSECTS

Octopus

Notophthalmus

Ornithorhynchus

Gecarcoidea

OCTOPUS

Crocodylus

Dendrobates

NEWT

DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS

Vaejovis

Gazella

NILE CROCODILE

BLUE POISON FROG

AMPHIBIANS

GAZELLE

The artworks commissioned by GOSH Arts have a positive impact on the hospital environment and people’s experience of visiting or working there. - BOP Consulting Evaluation Report, 2018

ARCHAEA

ARCHAEA

Laminaria

EUBACTERIA

BIVALVES

Mytilus

ORIGIN OF LIFE

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CYANOBACTERIA

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Made his fear in the hospital go away. Thank you very much.

- GOSH parent

Sight and Sound Centre Supported by Premier Inn Set to open in 2020, the Sight and Sound Centre supported by Premier Inn will be the first dedicated medical facility for children and young people with sight and hearing loss in the UK. The building will feature a series of ambitious, innovative and inspiring site-specific artworks that have considered the specific needs of children with sensory loss by incorporating sensory and tactile elements.

Oliver Beer Pythagoras Stairs (working title) is a site-specific installation composed of 12 fully functioning organ pipes suspended in the centre of the spiral staircase. The work will respond to patients, families and staff using the staircase with sensors to pick up their movements as they climb and descend the stairs, triggering the pipes to gently play.

The installation will look and sound different on each floor and support the way-finding for the building. The notes chosen for the pipes derive from Pythagorean harmonics, which were identified by the ancient Greek philosopher for their therapeutic qualities.

Why Not Associates Why Not Associates are creating a typographic artwork that will recognise and celebrate charitable donors to the Sight and Sound Centre. The design is being developed in collaboration with patients and families who will use the new facilities and will feature a range of materials and tactile surfaces.

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GOSH Arts makes our place of work more than a place of sickness, disease and healing. You transform the hospital into a place of culture, creativity, imagination. You make the impossible possible. - Staff member Lubna Chowdhary Lubna Chowdhary will be creating a series of playful abstract shapes and recognisable objects which will be installed across waiting spaces in the Italian Hospital. The shapes, many of which were inspired by workshops with patients and families in Rhino Outpatients (the location of current Sight and Sound facilities) will be made from hand-glazed ceramic tiles that will invite exploration through touch. Many of the forms will be a subtle celebration of the building’s heritage as a hospital for the Italian community,including familiar domestic objects and Italian optical inventions.

Isobel Manning Isobel Manning has collaborated with local families to transform the construction hoardings into a public artwork titled PEEK. During a workshop at Queen Square Fair families were encouraged to create optical devices that helped them to see the world differently. Isobel then used the optical devices to photograph the building’s unique architectural features.

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The GOSH Arts team are creative and courageous in connecting their patients with great art – it is truly inspiring.

- Alice McGrath, Creative Director, Red Bridge Arts

Programme Our art form focus this year was Literature – or ‘the word’ in all its forms! As well as all our regular activity across all art forms, we used the focus as a thread running through our programming for the year. We appointed our first ever Poet in Residence, Cecilia Knapp; Family Arts Week featured graphic novel writing, book readings, live play screenings, African storytelling and wandering postboxes; and we worked with the GOSH Young People’s Forum and Studio Hato to create a new publication which aims to support young people transitioning to adult services.

Over 60 different artists and cultural partners were involved in the participatory programme this year, see p9 for the full amazing list!

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I wish for the NHS to flourish in the future and continue on with the most fantastic work they do to support and nurture so many different families. - A wish for the NHS made by a family NHS70

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When we celebrate a person’s birthday, who we love and care for, we often throw them a party or a celebration of some sort.

So it seemed to me the only way to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday was to host a birthday party for it - and when I say it, I mean for you, the people who make the NHS the incredible institution that it is.

– Davina Drummond

To celebrate NHS70 artist Davina Drummond worked with families to plan a Birthday Tea Dance for staff and volunteers and through doing so celebrate and reflect on the NHS of the past, present and future.

Over a number of months in the build up to the Dance, Davina worked across the hospital with children, young people, families and staff. Through simple creative activities many of which were inspired by the GOSH archive, Davina engaged participants in conversations around the NHS and what it means to them.

At the Dance the 70th anniversary was marked by the lighting of 70 candles each marked with a wish for the NHS made by a family at GOSH, and the cutting of a cake adorned with quotes that described the special reasons that families had chosen the different staff and volunteers to attend.

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So powerful to have the voices of the young person in healthcare HEARD. Thank you so much. Such amazing storytelling.

- Health Research Play Specialist

Threads This year we partnered with music producer Serious Live alongside playwright Testament to commission a new show for young people in hospital, which went on to tour other paediatric settings across the country.

Testament worked with young people at GOSH using beatboxing, rapping, and storytelling. During the workshops he supported young people to share their stories and ideas and discussed with them what the show should say about and to other young people in hospital.

Back in the studio Testament used the young people’s stories to create a narrative for the show and brought in multi- instrumentalist Drew Archie to help him create an incredible multilayer soundtrack.

Using spoken word and beatboxing the two-man show Threads can be performed for a group or for one person at the bedside. It’s made up of interwoven stories which feature super villains, inter-dimensional beings and rock bands and touch on issues of morality, mental health and living with long term health conditions.

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The show was mint.

- Young person

To listen to the audio recordings of the stories visit: serious.org.uk/threads-childrens-hospitals-performance

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Rich and beautiful. A celebration of medicine, technology and life!

- Exhibition attendee

The Heart of the Matter 2018 saw the culmination of The Heart of the Matter, a three year arts and science project resulting in a touring exhibition that reached almost 100,000 people.

The project was conceived by artist Sofie Layton and bioengineer Giovanni Biglino, who met during a GOSH Art’s residency. They brought together patients with heart conditions at GOSH, the Bristol Heart Institute and the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, to look at the heart emotionally and metaphorically in workshops with scientists, artists, students, and clinicians.

Conversations and stories from these workshops inspired artworks that offered insight into the heart’s beauty, fragility and resilience, using scientific and artistic methods.

The final exhibition toured the Hancock Museum in Newcastle, the Royal West of England Academy and Centrespace in Bristol, and the Copeland Gallery in London, with selected works also shown at the V&A and GOSH.

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The GOSH Art Collection provides unique opportunities for our children and young people, families and staff to engage with museum quality artworks throughout the hospital. - Sir Michael Rake, GOSH Chairman

Our Art Collection GOSH Arts are responsible for maintaining the art collection and ensuring it remains relevant and meaningful for future generations of patients, families and staff. Over the past two years we have been working to better care for the collection with the support of a Transformation Grant from the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.

We are; • Digitising the collection so that families and staff can go online to search and find out more about individual artworks • Partnering with Art UK to showcase the collection • Reframing a number of vulnerable artworks so that we can place them back on display • Developing a family activity pack and art guide to encourage people to explore the artworks around the Hospital • Curating an exhibition to celebrate the Hospital’s history of collecting and championing the role of art in hospitals

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Get Involved!

Look out for artworks around the hospital.

Take part in our weekly workshops with our Resident Artists who tour wards and public spaces.

Request resources from Artists or the Play Team.

Find out about special projects in wards and departments across the Hospital; there may be a specific project you can take part in during your stay.

Do your Arts Award at GOSH. We can support you in gaining an accredited award while you are in hospital!

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For more information please see: www.gosh.nhs.uk/wards-and-departments/departments/gosh-arts Follow us on twitter and Instagram at @GOSH_Arts Email us at gosharts@gosh.nhs.uk