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GRASP coordinated by Jo Plimmer
Even with the most efficient hospital service possible, time has to be spent waiting: for appointments, attention, results, treatment. For children and their families this can be particularly stressful. Acknowledging this, GRASP (the Gloucestershire Royal Schools Residency Programme) will enable six hospital departments, with waiting and consulting areas specifically designated for children and their families, to collaborate with artists and County Schools to create artworks to help distract, calm and entertain those waiting.
Gloucestershire primary school children are collaborating with professional artists and hospital staff through the Spring and Summer terms, as they help develop designs for art works in six medical departments in the new hospital. The artworks, which are being developed in consultation with hospital staff, will aim to distract, calm and entertain waiting children and their families.
As well as harnessing and extending their art skills, GRASP hopes to collect some of the ideas, impressions and experience of local children around health and the hospital, from direct experience of visual impairment for works appropriate to the Ophthalmology Department, to issues of bullying and self esteem alongside Dermatology.
Also, as part of the project, GRASP is collecting memories of waiting rooms and the things that were put there to distract or entertain? If you would like to participate in this then please click here.
FOR LATEST UPDATES ON INDIVIDUAL RESIDENCIES
Jamie Gutch
Clare Hudman
Annabelle Craven-Jones
Natasha Rampley
FOR INFORMATION ON GRASP SCHOOLS
Schools
If you have any queries about the programme, then please contact Jo Plimmer via jo@willisnewson.co.uk
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