This popular annual exhibition celebrates the artistic skills of staff and patients from NHS Lothian Hospitals.

The exhibition began at the Western General Hospital in February 2016 and toured to other sites on the following dates:
5 February – 15 April at the Gallery, Western General Hospital
22 April – 1 July at St John’s Gallery
29 April – 1 July at the Pelican Gallery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

The artworks are made by staff and patients from across NHS Lothian Hospitals; by people who wouldn’t necessarily call themselves ‘artists’. Many of the exhibitors have day jobs or commitments to their time, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists, administrators, porters, medical secretaries, scientists and technicians. There are also many artworks made by in and out patients, young and old.

The show is always eagerly anticipated, not just by the individuals exhibiting, but by the audience and the hospital community at large. Many of the artworks on display are for sale with the profit going directly to the exhibitors.

This year we invited exhibitors to explore the theme of ‘Movement’, suggesting inspiration be taken from the movement of the human body, animals or plant life, forces of nature, or something more abstract. The results are as varied and diverse as the people who created them.