Award-winning Hospital Rooms charity launches Torbay Hospital project
We are very pleased that the collaboration between Hospital Rooms and Devon Partnership NHS Trust is being launched in Torbay today, 9 November. Hospital Rooms is an award-winning arts and mental health charity that commissions extraordinary artworks for mental health inpatient units across the United Kingdom.
The project will see close collaboration with the inpatient wards and Devon Recovery Learning Community (DRLC) to ensure wide participation from service user representatives across the region. In addition, Healthwatch Torbay and Torbay Culture are advising on the local context, opportunities, and challenges, while Artizan Gallery in Torquay is helping Hospital Rooms reach and discover creative practitioners from within the region who will deliver and benefit from the initiative, as part of the project’s commitment to work with local talent from Torbay and South Devon.
This latest Hospital Rooms project will see the creation of fifteen artworks, five per ward. Starting in November, each artist will host a workshop during which staff, service users, and care providers will explore a theme or artistic medium, collectively generating ideas for the final artwork. Five of these workshops will take place in the wider community.
Please see the press pack below with more details including the artists selected by Hospital Rooms, and the venues and dates for the workshops.
Workshops will be taking place inside the hospital for users of the inpatient units, and in the community. Community workshops take place between 25 November and 9 December in different settings including Dartmoor Activity Centre (Newton Abbot), St Mags and Torre Abbey (both in Torquay), St Michael the Archangel (Teignmouth), and Totnes Civic Hall.
The community workshops are open to everyone, although places are limited. Booking is via the Devon Recovery Learning Community website.
Click the links below for more details for each workshop
Hospital Rooms at Torbay Hospital has been generously supported by the Devon Partnership Trust Charity, fashion retailer Anthropologie, and construction firm Kier.
Image: Jon Emmony hallway and Bindi Vora window, The Junipers, courtesy of Hospital Rooms
