Hospital Rooms is an arts organisation who will collaborate with artists and service-users to co-produce artwork and creative programmes at Hellesdon Hospital
Together, we’re going to transform the Hellesdon Hospital with artworks made especially for these spaces.
From 2023 until summer 2024 we will collaborate with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and the current Hellesdon Hospital community to bring museum quality artworks and creative activities for people using mental health services.
We are working with 15 artists to run a programme of workshops at the hospital and partner venues. Artists include Dolly Sen, Errol Francis, Fabian Peake, Ghislaine Leung, Heather Phillipson, Holly Sandiford, Jade Montserrat, Ken Nwadiogbu, Mark Titchner, Michael Landy, Nengi Omuku, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Sarah Dwyer, Shepherd Manyika and Sola Olulode.
Hospital Rooms has programmed 70 artist-led sessions across the inpatient wards at Hellesdon Hospital as well as partners venues at Norwich University of the Arts, Sainsbury Centre and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery for community members who have used inpatient mental health services.
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Workshops
As well as inpatient workshops Hospital Rooms is partnering with Norwich University of the Arts, Sainsbury Centre and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery to host free art making sessions for community members who have used inpatient mental health services. The workshops will run between September 2023 - February 2024.
New available activities and dates will be added to below:
Photography with
2:30 - 4:30pm, 20th September, Sainsbury Centre
Explore moods and emotions with photography, taking inspiration from the Sainsbury Centre's vast collection of artworks.
Completed
Portraiture with Fabian Peake
2:30 - 4:30pm, 27th September, Sainsbury Centre
Make your own portraits using drawing and painting with Fabian Peake looking at selected works from the Sainsbury Centre’s collection.
Completed
Textile Landscapes with Nengi Omuku
2:00 - 4:00pm, 11th October, Sainsbury Centre
The workshop centres around creating a dream landscape using collage techniques with scrap pieces of textiles, inspired by the Sainsbury Centre’s collection.
Completed
Looking & Listening with Alan Kane
2:00 - 4:00pm, 18th October, Sainsbury Centre
A wide ranging, freeform, exploration of; the purpose, the effectiveness and the potential futures of art - through a look at The Sainsbury Collection and some conversations (with tea and biscuits).
Completed
Artful Healing with Ken Nwadiogbu
2:00 - 4:00pm, 1st November, Sainsbury Centre
A painting workshop using small boxes as a canvas, inspired by the styles and creative expression from the Sainsbury Centre’s collection.
Completed
Drawing and Writing with Dolly Sen
2:00 - 4:00pm, 8th November, Sainsbury Centre
Join artist and activist Dolly Sen for collaborative drawing exercises and activities to re-write what mental health care looks like. The session will involve painting, drawing and writing.
Completed
Shape Shifters with Sarah Dwyer
2:00 - 4:00pm, 22nd November, Sainsbury Centre
This workshop will focus on observing and recreating the figure, loosely based around life drawing. We will be taking inspiration from the body and using it to guide us with our experimental sculptures using wood blocks, modelling wire, mud rock and paint.
Completed
Painting Words with Mark Titchner
2:00 - 4:00pm, 6th December, Sainsbury Centre
The workshop focuses on how typefaces can convey emotions. We’ll be designing, drawing and painting fonts or typefaces that represent our different emotions.
Completed
Writing and Poster-making with Ghislaine Leung
2:00 - 4:00pm, 1st February, Norwich Castle
The workshop will start with a collaborative transcription exercise in groups, followed by poster-making based on the generated writing.
Completed
What is freedom to you? with Rosa-Johan Uddoh at Norwich Castle
In the workshop we will look together at some of these quotes, taken from Octavia Butler's archive, write our own motivational quotes and transform them into art.
Completed
Previous Workshops
In April 2023 Hospital Rooms ran 15 session as part of our “Activation Workshops” with participants from both inpatient wards and people discharged from mental health services. These were run in collaboration with Hospital Rooms staff and selected artists. Locations included Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich University of the Arts, East Gallery, Norwich Caste and OUTPOST Studios.
Meet the Artists
FAQs
I’m disabled, will I be able to join in? Yes, the buildings we are hosting workshops in are accessible for disabled and learning disabled participants, just let us know your access needs when you fill out a registration form and we’ll make sure we’re ready to support you.