Bicester Community Hospital – Image by Kajima.co.uk
The new works will be digitally printed onto optically clear vinyl and applied to the glazed window & door screens of 10 ward rooms throughout the building.
Typical glazed integrated door & window screen for digitally printed artwork.
External view of ground floor elevation with glazed screens
The work is being manufactured and installed to my designs by Guardian Window Film.
The digitally printed glazing manifestation artworks will be manufactured and installed by VGL.
VGL’s production artwork with annotations by the artist in red & blue –
Phase 2 draft artwork with production notes –
Phase 2 artwork draft with production notes – detailPhase 2 artwork drafts with artist production notes – detailPhase 2 artwork drafts with artist production notes – detailPhase 2 artwork draft in full –Phase 2 – Detail of artist draft –
Tuesday 16th September 2014, Oxford Churchill Hospital, DTU, Cancer Centre I came up to Oxford today to review the installation of the wall-covering artwork along with VGL and the Trust Arts Coordinator, Ruth Charity. The DTU is an oncology & haematology day unit delivering chemotherapy & other cancer related treatments. The staff delivering this service are the most dedicated and hardworking group of people. How they have made time to collaborate and input into this project has been truly brilliant and a pertinent and sharp reminder that projects such as this succeed because of a positive buy in & contribution by staff and stakeholders alike. The work is created around a central core ‘island’ of offices and consulting rooms about which day treatment chemotherapy services are delivered. Most of the chairs and beds face onto this central island, meaning that most patients spend hours at a time over many weeks or even years staring at dull, blank walls, during treatment, rather than out of the windows behind them, which incidentally are too high to see through. A concept approach was developed to change this dull & monotonous view into a contemplative and softly illuminated abstract vista, interrupted by the suggested shadows of overhanging branches and foliage with dappled light breaking through.
Corridor linking Chemotherapy Waiting Room to Oncology day treatment roomHaematology treatment spaceNurse Station
Patient and visitor drinks stationCorridor linking Oncology day treatment space with the Chemotherapy waiting roomHaematology treatment space nurse stationDetail: Patient & visitor drinks stationHaematology treatment space nurse stationDetailDetailDetailDetail with penguinsDetailOncology treatment space main nurse stationHand wash stationOncology nurse station – Detail of wall coveringHaematology treatment space – Detail of wall covering
The area around Bransholme has been farmed, cultivated, reclaimed & regenerated slowly over a period of 1000 years. In 1966 the green landscape of ditches & fields was to change dramatically & radically with the building of the new satellite town of Bransholme, now home to over 30,000 people.
The area is still rich in its bio-diversity. The streams, ditches, drains & dykes which dissect Bransholme & its surrounding land provide habitat for a diverse flora & fauna.
At the very heart of Bransholme stands the new Winifred Holtby Secondary and Tweendykes Special School.
This project was inspired by the locality and its rich history and topography. It was equally driven by the relationship which developed within the project team, which included both Head Teachers.
The artwork was digitally printed onto optically clear vinyl & applied to the curtain wall glazing, which spanned both school environments at Winifred Holtby & Tweendykes Schools. It was manufactured & installed by Artworks Solutions Ltd. The new Schools are part of a ‘Building Schools for the Future’ initiative.
Client: Esteem Consortium, Morgan Sindall & JM Architects with Art Consultant Andrew Knight.
Draft for the Winifred Holtby SchoolTweendykes School artwork draftDraft detail of all iconography set into the maelstrom cloud.This is a sample of all the elements which were drawn up to provide the visual narrative for the project. The all have a specific meaning to the project.
