Highlights

"In the still centre". ENT Outpatient Clinic, Torbay hospital, 2024 - 2025 by Helen Snell

This  is one of series of co-created drawings that has been developed through continuing discussions and shadowing of staff at Torbay hospital to explore experiences of burn out and response to the word ‘wellbeing’.  Staff are encouraged to talk about and visualise meaning and metaphor in their work and environment. The narrative here is driven by an ENT consultant. This work was produced as part of a residency with Torbay and South Devon Healthcare Trust 2022 -2025, funded by NHS Charities Together and will be part of a permanent exhibition in the historic boardroom at Torbay Hospital.

Surgeon

“This is my safe space in the midst of the pressures of clinic, it’s relaxing, satisfying and therapeutic for me, it gives me space to think about how I’m going to manage the patient, it gives me space full stop. In the context of the whirlpool for the patient and the sometimes hectic nature of clinic, I am in the still centre, at the eye of the storm… the waves are very evocative of tinnitus. For some of my patients, this picture evokes their experience of microsuction of the ear. They may undergo severe spinning vertigo during the procedure, which can be disabling and upsetting. I see that the nurse and I are affected by their distress, compassionately entering the world of the patient, seeing the encounter through their eyes. But the harnesses and ceiling stays show how we need to also maintain our professional stability and poise; completing the important treatments for the benefit of the patient despite the sometimes unpleasant short-term effects; being empathic without losing our footing in the vortex of their symptoms: ‘as if one were the person, but without ever losing the “as if”.’ (Carl Rogers, A Way of Being)”

The Winchester Years : Becoming with Difference, Alienation and Wonder. 2003 - 2015 by Russell Moreton

Documentation on situation led, exploratory and speculative artistic research. Spatial practices exploring diffractive  materialisms and their emergent and vibrant potentialities. Academic studies in Visual Fine Art, Winchester, and Spatial Practices, Canterbury.

Leylines : Localities and Drawings. 2012
 

“Leylines” has been appropriated and employed as both a practical and as a conceptual strategy to inquiry into places and localities. Site visits and sensitive dialogues with the other artists at a number of locations have further brought materials and processes into the creative realm. The spatial practice of setting-up this work has also produced insightful local knowledge from those dwelling nearby.

Beams and Netting: Negotiations in the chamber.

Clay, Hessian, drawings and transparencies from architectural openings, drawing frame, antique glass, lead and nylon lines.

This intervention into a listed building has become a temporary refuge for a work in progress. The work attempts to show a creative agency as it encounters a host of installed hierarchies and conditions. The architectural motif on the drawings has been derived directly from the open apertures of the chamber, and these drawings also reference the supportive ironwork (Ferramenta) which has been playfully re-registered as a graphic leyline . A drawing frame similar to that used in archaeology for drawing has been adapted to illustrate the relative positions of the leyline as registered by the ordnance survey grid, both terminuses being labelled on the frames periphery.

Spatial Practices
 

Composition, 2025 by Robert McCubbin

Small colourful, abstract collage

28 x 20 cm

On Thin Soil. Oak. 2024 - 2025 by Liz Clifford

The work is an upscaled iteration of On Thin Soil. Beech 2023. This piece uses an oak sapling rooted in layers of plastic waste found on the artist's daily walk in The South Downs National Park. The detritus is the byproduct of recreation, agri-business and fly-tipping and the work forms part of an ongoing series of sculptures concerned with soil depletion, plastic pollution and the legacy of the Anthropocene in the fossil record. Time is a crucial ingredient. Tree-growing time, materials-collecting time and fossil-making time.