Hospital Rooms artworks installed in Torbay Hospital

The work by the award-winning charity Hospital Rooms at Torbay Hospital's mental health units is continuing.

Commissioned by Devon Partnership NHS Trust (DPT NHS), the activity has been supported by a range of partners including Devon Recovery Learning Community (DRLC), Healthwatch Torbay, Artizan, and Torbay Culture. Funding for the work has generously been made available from the Devon Partnership Trust Charity, Anthropologie, and Kier Construction.

The Torbay project began last autumn with community workshops across Torbay and South Devon supported by DRLC. Those sessions, held in locations served by Torbay Hospital, involved local people working with artists.

Now the first artworks - including those by Tom Hannick (above) and Mark Jessett (below) in Beech Ward - are being installed. The three mental health units managed by DPT NHS will be transformed by artwork improving the hospital environment for people accessing the services. Later this year a celebratory exhibition will take place as part of the project.

Thank you to everyone who is making this possible. Torbay’s civic motto is ‘health and happiness’ and this is a fine example of creativity contributing to just that. Keep up to date with Hospital Rooms at the project blog here.

Images: Devon Partnership NHS Trust and Hospital Rooms team members during the installation of art by Tom Hannick (top image); artwork by Mark Jessett in Beech Ward, Torbay Hospital (bottom image) (Photographs courtesy Tim Shaw/Hospital Rooms)