Art in hospitals - big time
A couple of years ago TMPL worked with
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
to put in place an Arts Policy and the beginnings of a public art programme
for their new £400M PFI Walsgrave Hospital build. Three major commissions
kick-started the programme: Martin
Richman producing a piece
for the foyer of the Women and Children's unit; Tess
Jaray creating the outpatients
space; and Bruce
McLean splashed colour and
shape on a mega scale in the main hospital entrance.
The Clinical
Science Centre combining teaching
facilities including a mock operating theatre and ward, research laboratories
and a state of the art library is also a gallery of British modern
artists with a particular emphasis on Terry
Frost, Bruce McLean and Patrick
Caulfield, and work by Gary
Hume, Peter
Blake, Anthony
Frost, Anya
Gallaccio and many others.
The maternity ward has a series
of works by
Carol Robertson and Anita
Klein.
We wish the project every continuing
success.
