Artwork & Residencies

Artworks and Residencies

Leading the Way has resulted in more than 20 permanent art works and a series of residencies enhancing the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. These include:

Welcoming Works

Art works designed specifically to welcome and re-assure patients and visitors as they enter the buildings, such as the Children’s Welcome Wall commissioned from Marion Brandis to welcome children and their families to the Children’s Centre.

Landmark Works

Landmark works such as As the crow flies – the Gloucester Panorama created by Heinrich & Palmer for the Accident & Emergency Link Corridor provide a large scale landmark to help visitors and patients orientate themselves within the building. The panorama is also proving to have another function; entertaining and distracting people as they hunt the hidden objects.

Residencies

Residencies such as GRASP (Gloucestershire Royal Hospital’s Artist in Schools Programme) have enabled staff, children, and patients to work alongside artists, learn about the hospital, and contribute their own thoughts and ideas to its enhancement.

Site specific environments

These are artworks designed to be integrated into the building and designed specifically to their location, such as Up up up!, Andy Hazell’s perspex LED tower which rises through the Ground and First Floors of the Children’s Centre.

Exhibitions

As well as permanent artworks, Leading the Way has created three new gallery spaces to show changing exhibitions of work by local and national artists within the hospitals.