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Hospital Rooms

Digital Art School

22 August – 10 September 2024

London

In partnership with Hospital Rooms, ‘Digital Art School’ has transformed Hauser & Wirth London’s North Gallery this summer. The final project in our three-year partnership with the arts and mental health charity, the exhibition is a physical manifestation of their Digital Art School initiative. The program brings artist-led digital workshops and free art materials to every NHS inpatient mental health site in England. The exhibition recreates the Digital Art School format in the gallery, delivering live in-house creative sessions hosted by artists such as Abbas Zahedi, Shepherd Manyika and Eileen Cooper RA, as well as beautifully shot art activities projected in cinematic style onto the walls of the gallery hosted by artists and designers including Giles Deacon, Sutapa Biswas and Sarah Dwyer. 

Visitors are invited to spend time making artwork of their own in the space, using free art materials provided in the gallery or participating through handheld digital devices and in print. The exhibition offers a chance for visitors to experience the various gatherings that are taking place in mental health hospitals across England and to contribute to the charity’s investigations and experimentations into new models and methods of humanizing mental health spaces. Artworks created by visitors during the sessions will be installed on the walls throughout the exhibition.

The floor of the gallery space is covered with an adaptation of Nengi Omuku’s artwork created for Hellesdon Hospital in Norfolk, UK, depicting a clear blue sky that people will be able to walk, sit and create on. Hot air balloons featured in the Hellesdon artwork will be transformed into bean bags for the public to sit on and draw, and will later be installed in Hellesdon Hospital.

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