Exhibition: Shape Shift Converse Rework

Shape Shift Converse Rework is an exhibition at Hungate Medieval Art that tells the stories of Hospital Rooms’ three-year initiative at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich. The project commissioned 15 international artists to work with the hospital’s patients and staff, creating major artworks.

Exhibition Opening Times:
Opening: Wednesday 2 July, 6-8pm
3 – 27 July 2025

Artists: Sarah Dwyer, Errol Francis, Michael Landy, Ghislaine Leung, Shepherd Manyika, Jade de Montserrat, Ken Nwadiogbu, Ṣọlá Olúlòde, Nengi Omuku, Fabian Peake, Heather Phillipson, Holly Sandiford, Dolly Sen, Mark Titchner, Rosa-Johan Uddoh.

Co-Curators: Sophie Bagge, Fenn Harris, Mark Jennings, Su Pashley, Jodie Rowe, Holly Sandiford, Tim A Shaw, Nicola Simpson, Tim Steer, Niamh White.

This exhibition has been informed by a research collaboration with Hospital Rooms, Norwich University of the Arts, and a Lived Experience Team of co-researchers who are evaluating this large-scale multi-site Arts Intervention at Hellesdon Hospital. In a series of monthly workshops using creative, arts-based and material research methods, the lived experience co-researchers have engaged with a creative, critical and embodied retelling of the old and new hospital spaces by those who have and will live there. These artistic outcomes are represented at Hungate Medieval Art, inviting the audience to use all their senses to experience the personal and the public transformation and impact of the arts in mental health hospital spaces.

The Hellesdon Hospital Project was in partnership with Norwich University of Arts, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Supported by COAT Paints, Hauser & Wirth and Arts Council England. Our cultural partners were Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery and the Sainsbury Centre.