30. Arts and healthcare

Arts and Healthcare explores the contribution that the arts can make to hospitals and medical settings and how engagement with the visual arts can impact on the lives of patients, staff and carers.

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Arts and Healthcare explores the contribution that the arts can make to hospitals and medical settings and how engagement with the visual arts can impact on the lives of patients, staff and carers.

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Editorial view comments on Editorial

Penny Jones
Learning Co-ordinator, Van Dyck Project, National Portrait Gallery
Image : Vital Communities portraiture workshop, Audrey and John. Courtesy of Vital Communities

The search for a common language – to evidence or not to evidence? view comments on The search for a common language – to evidence or not to evidence?

Susan Potter
Arts Evaluation and Research
Image : Lost in Time and Space exhibition, May 2012, Modern Art Oxford. Photo: Sarah Mossop

Neutral territory – the gallery: a site for artists, young people and older people with dementia to collaborate view comments on Neutral territory – the gallery: a site for artists, young people and older people with dementia to collaborate

Sarah Plumb
Research Development Fellow at the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG), University of Leicester
Image : Jo Spence, Picture of Health?, installation view, Studio Voltaire, London 2012

Not our class view comments on Not our class

Louise Shelley
Education Curator, Studio Voltaire
Arteffact – museums and creativity for better mental health view comments on Arteffact – museums and creativity for better mental health

Colette Neal
Director, Acces3Ability
Image : Stuart Haygarth, Strand, 2012, mixed media, UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre, London

Extreme Drama – Challenging Hospital Art view comments on Extreme Drama – Challenging Hospital Art

Guy Noble
Arts Curator
The quality of silence — the visual arts engaging older people with dementia view comments on The quality of silence — the visual arts engaging older people with dementia

Alice Briggs and Angela Rogers
Contemporary visual art and identity construction – exploring wellbeing amongst older people view comments on Contemporary visual art and identity construction – exploring wellbeing amongst older people

Andrew Newman and Anna Goulding
Image : Clay owl made by project participant, Beyond Words, Fitzwilliam Museum

See and be seen – engaging with carers at the Fitzwilliam Museum view comments on See and be seen – engaging with carers at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Rachel Sinfield , Edye Hoffmann and Joanna Holland
Drawn to dialogue – nouns and verbs view comments on Drawn to dialogue – nouns and verbs

Sheila Grandison and Michèle Fuirer
Image : Rosie Sedgwick, Delusions of Grandeur

Art in medical training: an artist’s perspective view comments on Art in medical training: an artist’s perspective

Anna Dumitriu
Artist
Art in medical training: a medical perspective view comments on Art in medical training: a medical perspective

Dr Helen Smith
Professor of General Practice at Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Making room for the unexpected – some approaches and challenges to commissioning at the Royal London Hospital view comments on Making room for the unexpected – some approaches and challenges to commissioning at the Royal London Hospital

Sarah Carrington
Commissions Manager, Vital Arts
You are here – art and public engagement in the hospital environment view comments on You are here – art and public engagement in the hospital environment

Sue Ridge and John Davies
Image : Outpatients at Central Manchester Children’s University Hospital engaging with a cheetah from The Manchester Museums collection during ‘+Culture Shots’, Museums and Galleries Week February 2012. Photo: Jan Chlebik

To travel hopefully – health and culture, reciprocity in action view comments on To travel hopefully – health and culture, reciprocity in action

Wendy Gallagher
Arts for Health Programme Manager, Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester
Case study: ArtLift, Glasgow view comments on Case study: ArtLift, Glasgow

Katie Bruce
GoMA
Case study: Down Time, Stour Valley Arts view comments on Case study: Down Time, Stour Valley Arts

Lucy Medhurst
Director of Ideas Test, one of the Arts Council’s Creative People and Places initiatives (for Swale and Medway), previously Strategic Manager for the Kent area for the Bridge Organisation Artswork.

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30. Arts and healthcare

30. Arts and healthcare

About this issue:

Editorial view comments on Editorial

The search for a common language – to evidence or not to evidence? view comments on The search for a common language – to evidence or not to evidence?

Neutral territory – the gallery: a site for artists, young people and older people with dementia to collaborate view comments on Neutral territory – the gallery: a site for artists, young people and older people with dementia to collaborate

Not our class view comments on Not our class

Arteffact – museums and creativity for better mental health view comments on Arteffact – museums and creativity for better mental health

Extreme Drama – Challenging Hospital Art view comments on Extreme Drama – Challenging Hospital Art

The quality of silence — the visual arts engaging older people with dementia view comments on The quality of silence — the visual arts engaging older people with dementia

Contemporary visual art and identity construction – exploring wellbeing amongst older people view comments on Contemporary visual art and identity construction – exploring wellbeing amongst older people

See and be seen – engaging with carers at the Fitzwilliam Museum view comments on See and be seen – engaging with carers at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Drawn to dialogue – nouns and verbs view comments on Drawn to dialogue – nouns and verbs

Art in medical training: an artist’s perspective view comments on Art in medical training: an artist’s perspective

Art in medical training: a medical perspective view comments on Art in medical training: a medical perspective

Making room for the unexpected – some approaches and challenges to commissioning at the Royal London Hospital view comments on Making room for the unexpected – some approaches and challenges to commissioning at the Royal London Hospital

You are here – art and public engagement in the hospital environment view comments on You are here – art and public engagement in the hospital environment

To travel hopefully – health and culture, reciprocity in action view comments on To travel hopefully – health and culture, reciprocity in action

Case study: ArtLift, Glasgow view comments on Case study: ArtLift, Glasgow

Case study: Down Time, Stour Valley Arts view comments on Case study: Down Time, Stour Valley Arts