Fresh Arts is the arts programme for Frenchay and Southmead Hospitals. It was devised and run by Willis Newson. Now well-established, it improves patient well-being and enriches the working lives of staff through exhibitions, a successful arts club, environmental projects and an expanding art collection.
The public art strategy developed by Willis Newson for the Bristol Heart Institute won the Building Better Healthcare Award for the Best use of Visual Art in Healthcare 2009. Eight integrated artworks support the patient’s journey through the building, make it feel less clinical and create a sense of local ownership and pride.
Three resident artists – a poet, a musician and a visual artist – worked with mental health service users and staff at Callington Road Hospital in Bristol in a participatory arts project developed and managed by Willis Newson.
More than 250 children, 30 teachers and 20 hospital staff members took part in GRASP, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital’s Artists in School Programme. This imaginative partnership between education and health sectors and the arts provided health education, built new skills, raised confidence, and gave a lot of pleasure.
Willis Newson developed and delivered a public art strategy for the development of new Learning & Research and Pathology buildings on the Southmead Hospital site in Bristol. Entering early to the design process, we were able to commission artists to work alongside the architects and building contractors.
Artwork at Guy's Hospital Cancer Day Unit has won this year's BBH Award for Best Use of Visual Art.
Find out about artists' Davis and Jones public engagement arts programme for Junction 3 - a new mixed-use development in Bristol.
Willis Newson
20 Portland Square
Bristol
BS2 8SJ
Telephone: 0117 924 7617
Email: info@willisnewson.co.uk
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