• Erin Hughes, Newham Horizons

    Erin Hughes undertook this major commission at Newham Hospital. Extending over two floors, the installation ​features landscape imagery based on green spaces around Newham Hospital.

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  • Halina Edwards, Rising

    Halina Edwards transforms the North East London Child Sexual Abuse Hub into a relaxing and dynamic space, offering young people a sense of control over their surroundings.

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  • Freya Stockford, Familiar Still

    Stockford has created an installation that runs through two floors of the new Clinical Assessment Units at Barts.

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  • Michael Ziga, London Landscapes

    Michael Ziga creates a new suite of works for the Viewing Room of the Mortuary at Newham Hospital, depicting landscapes across Newham and east London to offer familiarity and comfort to grieving families.

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  • The Poetry Takeaway

    A burger van that serves poems at St. Bartholomew’s hospital

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  • ‘The time has come to recognise the powerful contribution the arts can make to our health and wellbeing.’

    Rt Hon Lord Howarth of Newport, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing

  • “[The patient] can be a bit reluctant when it comes to physiotherapy – we have to employ all sorts of distraction and delaying techniques. This session was a brilliant way to get her heart rate up in a fun way. We met the physiotherapy targets we were aiming for while [the patient] enjoyed the process. Perfect!”

    Senior Physiotherapist Barts Health, 2015

  • “Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in objects presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.”

    Florence Nightingale, 1859