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Three-year initiative with Hauser & Wirth and Bonhams raises over £1 million to support transformative art projects in NHS mental health hospitals across the UK
Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of our bidders, artists, supporters, and our wonderful community, in partnership with Hauser & Wirth and Bonhams, we have raised an incredible £1 million over the past three years to support transformative art projects in mental health services.
These funds will play a crucial role in sustaining our mission: to transform mental health services through the healing power of art, enabling us to kickstart new projects in cities from London to Bristol, Birmingham and Wakefield, igniting an entirely new phase of transformative work for Hospital Rooms.
Hospital Rooms launches Digital Art School: a major national programme bringing artist-led workshops to every NHS Mental Health Trust in England
Digital Art School offers free, monthly artist-led workshops available live or on-demand, with high-quality resources for NHS staff to use in mental health units. Workshops feature acclaimed artists like Abbas Zahedi, Dolly Sen, Giles Deacon, Sutapa Biswas and more. This programme supports Hospital Rooms’ mission to integrate creativity into mental health care, promoting healing and wellbeing, and is free and open to everyone.
Hospital Rooms launches their most innovative project to date, commissioning 15 major new artworks and leading 70 art workshops for new mental health services in Norwich
Including: Alan Kane, 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 and Sola Olulode.
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Selected Press
Elephant Magazine
“Given the charity’s origin in a personal story of seeking to make a friend’s life better, it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that mental health inpatients are at the heart of the Hospital Rooms project. Yet, this is also what makes their work so radical”… by ELOISE HENDY
The New York Times
“The artist Sutapa Biswas has works in the Tate collection and was the subject of two major retrospectives last year. But, she said recently, one of the highlights of her career was a piece that few people will ever see: an abstract mural of a night sky in a London psychiatric hospital”… by ALEX MARSHALL
Financial Times: HTSI A Philanthropy Special
“Even the most sterile of environments can harbour a place that nurtures. Hospital Rooms commissions artworks for NHS mental-health units – highly managed spaces that require ligature-proof fittings, soft edges and hard, wipe-clean surfaces”… by ROSANNA DODDS
Channel 4 News
“NHS buildings – inside and out – can be uninspiring, even bleak places. But now a charity is transforming secure and locked mental health units by bringing what they call ‘museum quality art’ on to the wards… Commissioning world class artists including Anish Kapoor and Julian Opie”
