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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) enabled six hospital departments, with waiting and consulting areas specifically designated for children and their families, to collaborate with artists and schools to create artworks to help distract, calm and entertain those waiting.
Gloucestershire primary school children collaborated with professional artists and hospital staff to help develop designs for art works in six medical departments in the new hospital. The artworks, developed in consultation with hospital staff, aimed to distract, calm and entertain waiting children and their families.
As well as harnessing and extending their art skills, GRASP collected some of the ideas, impressions and experiences of local children around health and the hospital. These ranged from direct experience of visual impairment for works appropriate to the Ophthalmology Department, to issues of bullying and self esteem alongside Dermatology.
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