2023
After a month of our exhibition and partnership with Hauser & Wirth and our biggest fundraising auction yet with Bonhams we have managed to raise a breathtaking amount of money for Hospital Rooms.
Every penny is going towards our continued work, commissioning and programming creative workshops and permanent art installations in NHS inpatient mental health units.
We can’t express our gratitude enough to everybody who helped us on this adventure. Our partners, collaborators, artists, team and entire community came together to make this dream come true and we can’t wait to show you all the work this money will go towards.
PAST - ‘Holding Space’ exhibition (16 August - 12 September 2023)
Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London, W1S 2ET
The opening featureded performances by mezzo soprano Joanna Harries and cellist Lucas Robson in collaboration with National Opera Studio and students from the South West London Recovery College.
A multi-sensory exhibition drawing directly from artist programs within NHS mental health services. Featured mixed media artworks and site specific installations.
PAST - Holding Space Auction (4-13 September 2023)
Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London
Artists such as Martin Creed, Catherine Goodman, Do Ho Suh and Rashid Johnson donated works to raise funds for Hospital Rooms at Bonhams.
Holding Space Event Programme
Tours and Talks
Exhibition Tour with Hospital Rooms Co-Founders
Learn more about the artworks and projects featured in the Holding Space exhibition with Niamh White and Tim Shaw
19 August and 2 September at 13:00
BSL Exhibition Tours with Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq
Learn more about the artworks and projects featured in the Holding Space exhibition in British Sign Language
19 August and 2 September at 14:00
Talk: Khuluma- Visions and Dreams to move forward
A talk exploring the experiences for people of colour in mental health hospitals, with Valerie Assimwe Amani, Dr Errol Francis, Abbas Zahedi and Siphiwe Mnguni
7 September 6 - 8pm
Workshops
Holding Space Conversations
A space for people with lived experience of psychiatric units to express their sensory encounters of clinical spaces through collage and conversations with Phoebe Eustance
Saturday 26 August 14:00 - 15:30
National Opera Studio Workshop
A sound based public workshop with interactive elements including physical work, breath work and improvisation.
Saturday 9 September 14:00 - 16:00
Ballet Boyz Workshop
A dance based interactive event exploring movement and sound.
Saturday 9 September 15 minute sessions at 11:00, 12:00 and 13:00
Hospital Rooms Annual Auction
Hosted by Bonhams
Live Auction
Artists such as Martin Creed, Rashid Johnson, Allison Katz and many more have generously donated artworks to be auctioned at Bonhams on 12 September 2023.
Online Auction
Artists such as Catherine Goodman, Sarah Dwyer, Alvin Kofi and many more generously donated commissioned 65 x 70cm canvases and cushions to be auctioned on Bonhams.com from 4 - 13 September 2023.
Our landmark partnership aims to raise £1million over 3 years
Hospital Rooms and Hauser & Wirth announce their annual auction at Bonhams, New Bond Street, to raise £500,000 with artwork by Martin Creed, Chantal Joffe, Allison Katz, Julian Opie, Do Ho Suh and Caroline Walker.
This funding will support Hospital Rooms projects in mental health hospitals, in particular a Children and Adolescent Service in Sandwell.
An accompanying exhibition ‘Holding Space’ will take place in Hauser & Wirth London 17 August - 12 September featuring Sutapa Biswas, Richard Wentworth, Abbas Zahedi and more.
“As long-time supporters of Hospital Rooms, we have witnessed first-hand the extraordinary impact of their work in changing lives across NHS mental health inpatient units across the country. Embarking on our second year of a three-year partnership, I am thrilled to champion another programme of activities and fundraising that we know will help bring hope and courage, especially to young people in mental health services in the UK.”
Neil Wenman, Partner, Hauser & Wirth
In the summer of 2023, Hospital Rooms and Hauser & Wirth will resume their 3 year collaboration which aims to raise £1million for the arts and mental health charity.
The programme comprises a live and online auction in collaboration with Bonhams with works donated from acclaimed artists including Martin Creed, Do Ho Suh and Chantal Joffe. With an ambitious target of £500,000, the event will support Hospital Rooms to commission artworks and creative programmes for a Children and Adolescent service in Sandwell at Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Works will be viewable at Bonhams, New Bond Street, from 1 September 2023.
In addition, Hospital Rooms will transform the Hauser & Wirth London gallery into a sensorial holding space made up of components resulting from their programmes within mental health services. Sutapa Biswas’ monumental mural originally created for Springfield University Hospital and conceived with patients in the OCD clinic will wrap the gallery space. Abbas Zahedi will share a magnetised sun created with and for patients in forensic services that contains a kinetic interactive poetry piece written by a group of people with lived experience of mental health services that met over the course of a year. Artists Alvin Kofi, Victoria Cantons, Valerie Asiimwe Amani, Giles Deacon, Richard Mark Rawlins and Katharine Lazenby use their experiences with Hospital Rooms to create a series of large scale beds and cushions within the gallery for visitors to lie on and gaze up towards a ceiling installation by Richard Wentworth. Sculptural works by Rachael Champion and illuminated sculptures by Jonathan Trayte will be encountered throughout the space. On each hour, a piece composed by students from the South West London Recovery College, composer Alex Groves and National Opera Studio will resound within the space. Together they developed methods of breathing, humming, droning, harmonic sounds, vocalising and physical moving in space to compose a collective ‘fabric of sound’. During our opening, Soprano Joanna Harries and cellist Lucas Robson will interact with the piece during a live performance.
Over the course of the exhibition, participatory workshops with a focus on breath, sound and movement will take place in collaboration with the National Opera Studio and the Ballet Boyz. There will also be a series of talks, tours and events to activate the space.
Hospital Rooms and Hauser & Wirth will continue their partnership over 3 years through a series of initiatives that continue to dramatically expand and deepen Hospital Rooms’ impact.
Accessibility Information
Step-free access: There is step free access to the gallery through main entrance.
Toilets: There is a toilet in the building’s central atrium reception, next to the main reception desk, and a disabled access toilet at the back of the building, accesible through the loading bay.
Wheelchairs: The gallery is fully wheelchair accessible and there is a disabled refuge point behind the gallery.
Disabled parking: There is limited parking available. If you are driving please contact louis@hospital-rooms.com to arrange. There are also three disabled parking bays within 200m of the gallery.
Assistance dogs: Registered assistance dogs are welcome.
Seating: The space 6 large 'beds' at different heights. Two of the beds are at standard chair height and can be sat on.
If you require any assistance or further information, please contact Léonie: leonie@hospital-rooms.com
Getting here by underground
The closest station is Oxford Circus, but there is no step free access. The station is 500 metres from Hauser & Wirth, approximately a 5 minute walk.
Bond Street and Green Park are the closest stations with lift access between the street and the platform. The stations are both approx 800 metres from Hauser & Wirth.
There are 4 bus stops outside Hamleys on Regents Street, 150m from Hauser & Wirth, approximately a 2 minute walk.
Buses that stop here: 3, 6, 12, 13, 23, 88, 94, 139, 159
Getting here by bus
There are 4 bus stops outside Hamleys on Regents Street, 150m from Hauser & Wirth, approximately a 2 minute walk
Buses that stop here: 3, 6, 12, 13, 23, 88, 94, 139, 159
2022
Mark Titchner, Like There Is Hope And I Can Dream of Another World, 2022
This phrase was inspired by an interview with Julia Foxon, who has lived experience of mental health services conducted by Hospital Rooms Research Assistant Laura Cundall in response to the question “How would you hope an artwork in a mental health hospital would make you feel?”
Hauser & Wirth have been a key supporter of Hospital Rooms over the past 3 years through annual auctions that have collectively raised over £200,000 for the charity. The gallery is now solidifying its partnership with Hospital Rooms through a new commitment to the organisation until 2025.
Commencing in Mental Health Awareness Week May 2022 and for the next 3 years, Hauser & Wirth will support a series of events and an annual major exhibition at its London gallery that feature acclaimed artists and insights by experts by experience of mental health services. They will also host a programme of fundraising initiatives to support the charity.
Past Exhibition
Like there is hope and I can dream of another world
Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET
19 August - 14 September 2022
In the summer of 2022, we held an ambitious exhibition at Hauser & Wirth to share our work and raise funds for our upcoming projects. The show included major new installation based artworks by long term Hospital Rooms collaborators Mark Titchner, Harold Offeh and Michelle Williams Gamaker.
It will also played host to an investigative and collaborative arts programme that engaged wider artists and arts organisations who joined Hospital Rooms and Hauser & Wirth in imagining a new future for mental health services.
Digital Art School Banqueting Table
Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET
Featuring Artists: Ruby Elliot, Petra Borner, Lizzie King, Venetia Berry, Charley Peters, Sadie Williams, Darren John
Visitors to the gallery had an opportunity to make their own artwork at the Hospital Rooms Digital Art School Banqueting Table. Digital Art School artists designed sets of 4 stools and table settings that were accompanied by QR codes to their video sessions and all the materials they require. Each workshop involves a different process and concept. The Digital Art School provides wide access to the arts in mental health units nationally. The artist stools will be offered for sale during an online auction throughout the exhibition. Thank you to Beats by Dre who provided headphones for the Digital Art School Banqueting Table.
Family Festival
Hospital Rooms Curators Molly Bonnell and Tom Shepherd Baron led a free day of art workshops where young families could experiment with colour and tactile printmaking!
BIPOC Narratives
Hospital Rooms Curators Siphiwe Mnguni and Valerie Amani explored how BIPOC characters in film and literature, along with historical figures, can be used to reimagine representation of minority communities.
Interactive Art Afternoon
Participants interacted and played with Linda Bell’s sculptures while also having the chance to make their own alongside her.
Saturday 3 September, 14:00 - 15:00
23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET
How can art be used to re-think current models of mental health care?
A multidisciplinary research symposium that delves into the relationship between artistic practice, mental health care and the lived experience of hospitalisation.
Avant Arte & Larry Bell
Our official editions partner, Avant Arte will release a series of unique sculptures by Larry Bell on 1 November 2022
Image credits: Larry Bell in his studio, image courtesy of Avant Arte
Fashion Collaborations
Featuring Designers: Jane Carr, Giles Deacon and Simone Rocha
Leading fashion designers will join us for an exciting fundraising campaign as part of the exhibition at Hauser & Wirth. A collection of newly designed, limited edition products will be made available during the exhibition with all proceeds supporting upcoming Hospital Rooms projects.
“I have long admired the incredible work that Niamh and Tim and the team at Hospital Rooms have achieved and am honoured to support this amazing initiative with a unique, limited edition. 100% of the profit will go directly to their future projects.“ Jane Carr, Designer
Accessibility Information
Step-free access: There is step free access to the gallery through main entrance.
Toilets: There is a toilet in the building’s central atrium reception, next to the main reception desk, and a disabled access toilet at the back of the building, accesible through the loading bay.
Wheelchairs: The gallery is fully wheelchair accessible and there is a disabled refuge point behind the gallery.
Disabled parking: There is limited parking available. If you are driving please contact louis@hospital-rooms.comto arrange. There are also three disabled parking bays within 200m of the gallery.
Assistance dogs: Registered assistance dogs are welcome.
Seating: The space will have a relaxed area with two sofas and four armchairs.
If you require any assistance or further information, please contact Natalie on natalie@hospital-rooms.com
Getting here by underground
The closest station is Oxford Circus, but there is no step free access. The station is 500 metres from Hauser & Wirth, approximately a 5 minute walk.
Bond Street and Green Park are the closest stations with lift access between the street and the platform. The stations are both approx 800 metres from Hauser & Wirth, approximately a
There are 4 bus stops outside Hamleys on Regents Street, 150m from Hauser & Wirth, approximately a 2 minute walk
Buses that stop here: 3, 6, 12, 13, 23, 88, 94, 139, 159
Getting here by bus
There are 4 bus stops outside Hamleys on Regents Street, 150m from Hauser & Wirth, approximately a 2 minute walk
Buses that stop here: 3, 6, 12, 13, 23, 88, 94, 139, 159
