October Activities Programme @ Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Royal Edinburgh Hospital
At the REH Artlink have always supported the involvement of patients within creative and horticultural activity. The last couple of years we have been focused on the idea of ‘Grounds for Change’ which aims to not only provide valuable activity for the patients, but also to effect some form of physical change to their environment.
The programme responds to:
The need for activity that patients can undertake. Through a variety of workshop programmes we provide much needed activity around the hospital.
The need for patients to have non-clinical spaces within the hospital grounds. Our aim is to transform some spaces into spaces that feel much more like a home environment than a hospital environment.
Patients choices are often drastically reduced when they are in hospital, we also aim, where feasible, to increase the level of choice presented to the patient.
The need for patients peer to peer support within the hospital.
The need for some form of normalized social environment.
The need for relatives to have non clinical spaces in which to visit their loved ones.
The Green Space and Art Space PSP programme
MAKING GRAPHICS WORKSHOP
New workshops have started at REH! A new programme of activities designed to offer participants the opportunity to gain a new skill. This 5 week project started this week and will be based on wards and in the library. Its proving to be very popular. Learn some new skills in graphics with artist Marcus Oakley.
PSP WORK IN PROGRESS – or – A WORKSHOP ON PAINTING (learning about the colour wheel)
Work by patients at the REH
What happens when artists Claire Barclay and James McLardy work in partnership with patients. THIS DOES……..
April Activities Programme @ Royal Edinburgh Hospital
March Activities Programme @ Royal Edinburgh Hospital
February Activities Programme @ Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Journeys Through Performance
Balcarres Ward
These workshops developed out of the taster tester workshops we did earlier in the year.
Balcarres is an acute admissions ward and Claire Barclay has been working on the female ward. Claire started with embroidery workshops as a means of participatory workshop while sitting around a table. This enables work to be carried on from one workshop to another while also enabling group conversations around the table.
Claire started of by bringing different size embroidery hoops, blanks squares and different coloured embroidery treads along to the workshops. Some patients had done embroidery before while others were beginners. As the workshops developed styles and aesthetics began to develop, with some people starting and developing their square to completion while others started and were happy for Claire or other patients to complete their square.
The outcome from this series of workshops will be a wall mounted collaborative piece that comprised of finished pieces. This will be displayed in the breakfast room of the ward, a space that is used by all the patients and their visitors.
More images will be posted as the workshops progress.
