Brighton 3Ts

We are working with Brighton and Sussex University Hospital’s NHS Trust (BSUH) to deliver an ambitious arts programme for the Royal Sussex County Hospital 3Ts (Teaching, Trauma and Tertiary Care) Hospital redevelopment.  The arts will be used to create an effective therapeutic environment and to convey compassion and care whilst establishing a strong sense of place and identity within the new development.  The new buildings will include new acute hospital facilities, a teaching centre and a cancer centre.  

Following consultation, we have devised a public art strategy to include 11 site specific commissions, an extensive photography project which we hope will run in partnership with local stakeholders and artists, projects linked to the hospital heritage and a participatory public engagement programme.  In addition we hope to launch a mentoring programme for early career artists and to provide arts spaces within the new hospital for exhibiting, performance and participatory arts activities.  In July 2011, five artists were commissioned to work on areas of external and internal design, meaning that their work can be fully integrated into the build and design process from the earliest stages.  These artists are Kate Blee, Marion Brandis, Morag Myerscough, Sharon Ting and Bruce Williams.  Examples of their work can be seen on the BSUH website.

The development is being delivered through Procure21 (P21).  Laing O’Rourke is the P21 partner and BDP the architects. Following final approval of planning permission, phased building is due to start in 2012 and the development  is planned to be finally complete by 2019.