Arts programme vision
A vibrant, creative hospital at the heart of its community, where the arts help everyone to feel better, heal better and work better.
Arts programme mission
To enhance health, wellbeing and connection for staff, patients and communities through creativity and the arts. Transforming environments, enriching experiences and embedding humanity in care.
Purpose of project
To enable staff teams to competitively bid for charity funding for artwork in their work areas, ensuring fair, transparent, and effective use of charitable funds while enhancing patient and staff wellbeing and the working environment.
Overview of the process
- Charity allocates a fixed artwork budget.
- Staff teams submit bids.
- Bids are assessed against agreed criteria.
- Funding is awarded.
- Artwork is procured and installed.
- Impact is evaluated and decision is made on whether to refine and repeat project
- Staff and artist collaboration
- Staff groups are invited to identify and describe a current challenge that they feel artwork could address.
- These ideas will act as starting points to inform conversations or artist briefs as appropriate.
- Appointed artists will respond to challenges outlined with proposed approaches and designs, developed with staff, presenting final designs for approval.
- Artistic direction, style, and execution will remain the responsibility of the artist in consultation with the staff group.
Eligibility
- Open to all departments or teams.
- Confirmation of senior leader and divisional support required.
- Confirmation required that named staff lead will fully engage with the project throughout, including with the evaluation and sharing of the project.
Bid requirements - each bid must include:
- Team or area name that are requesting and lead contact name and email/phone number.
- Evidence of consultation with other colleagues (and patients if appropriate) to identify and demonstrate the challenge artwork is to address.
- Description of the challenge/issue, what happens now and what you would like to change/improve afterwards.
- Proposed display location.
- Expected benefits for staff, patients, or visitors.
- Potential restrictions to delivery of project.
- Agreement of responsibility of artwork once installed.