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Let’s Get Clinical

Many people have to experience a stay in hospital, repeat visits to a clinic or access health and care in a community health setting to manage their mental and physical health in London. Arts Council England, alongside London Arts and Health and King’s Culture, King’s College London invited some amazing organisations from hospitals, arts organisations, freelance artists/practitioners and the health care professionals they collaborate with to share their work with an audience for Creativity and Wellbeing Week in May 2024.

There is a huge proliferation of Creative Health work happening in community settings, but much of this work has its routes in hospital arts. This event celebrated the work, the people, patients and staff who make arts in hospitals happen across England. If you are interested in keeping up to date with hospital arts be sure to check out the National Hospital Arts Network for updates and resources across the sector.

We are pleased to release the full recording from the event, with many thanks to King’s College London for the wonderful recordings and edit of the event. This event was made possible due to kind support from King’s and Arts Council England, who fund our yearly festival.

The full list of speakers from the event included:

  • Nikki Crane: Lead for Creative Health, King’s Culture, King’s College London
  • Richard Ings: London Area Champion for Creative Health & Justice, Arts Council England
  • Hollie Smith-Charles: Director, Creative Health & Change, Arts Council England
  • Guy Noble: Arts Curator, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust and Co-Chair National Arts in Hospitals Network
  • Keith Jarrett: Writer, poet, educator, and international poetry slam champion
  • Vocal Beats: Stac (lead musician) and Lauren (patient participant)
  • CW+: Andy Hall, Head of Impact and Evaluation and Abigail Balkitis, Arts Officer
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery: Jane Findlay Head of Programme and Engagement 
  • Hospital Rooms: Nafeesa Arshad, Creative and Digital Producer
  • Emma Barnard: Artist
  • Breathe Arts Health Research: Lorna Greenwood Head of Scalability
  • Clod Ensemble: Suzy Willson, Artistic Director
  • Wake The Beast Theatre Company: with Sue Gibbons, Clinical Psychologist
  • Dr. Paul Gilluley, Chief Medical Officer: North-East London Integrated Care Board

Panel Discussion:

  • Vivienne Reiss: Curator working on public art programmes in the health sector. and developing art commissions in hospitals including Great Ormond Street Hospital, Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and Cambridge University Hospitals
  • Sophie Leighton: Director, Bethlem Gallery
  • Andrea Craig: Formerly Project Director Wood Green NHS Community Diagnostic Centre and currently Project Director for NCL ICB
  • Tim Shaw: Co-Founder of Hospital Rooms

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