Public Art | M Cooke

Liverpool Health Service Cultural & Artistic Enrichment Program

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Arts at Liverpool Health Services

The Arts in Liverpool Health Services supports the connection between the health service and the local communities, it supports diversity and tolerance, creating supportive environments for our staff, patients and visitors.

The program has, since 1996, a volunteer's group working to create a culturally rich environment for patients and staff of Liverpool Hospital. They give their time to create new artworks, organise and distribute books in languages other than English and help to hang the temporary exhibitions.

Liverpool Hospital has four Arts for Health Galleries, utilising the corridors as non traditional space to show artworks. We have a minimum of 16 arts exhibitions each year, offering fresh and captivating new artworks that change every six to eight weeks in four galleries.

The program helps create a positive and friendly environment for staff, patients and visitors of our hospital.

For the artists it is a great space to show their works. The audience for this exhibition will surpass most commercial and public galleries, exposing their work to over 1000 people a day.

Shots from the Quiet Dreaming Courtyard Liverpool Hospital NSW

Quiet Dreaming Place Mosaic Design by Tao La

Gate fabricated to a design derived from painting by Aboriginal artist Susan Grant.

Quiet Dreaming Place Liverpool Hospital

The “Quiet Dreaming Place” is a special garden set aside within the grounds of Liverpool Hospital. It was the concept of Aboriginal Health workers, local elders and Liverpool Health Service Arts for Health Program who wanted to create a place where Aboriginal patients and their families could seek privacy and be at one with nature in times of grief and despair.

The “Quiet Dreaming Place” is a gift from the local Aboriginal community to Aboriginal families, Neo Natal, Palliative Care, and Intensive Care patients and their families to seek comfort and solitude when faced with challenges which impact on health and wellbeing. It is envisaged the “Quiet Dreaming Place” will promote wellness and healing for patients, their families and friends.

Funds for the project were made available through a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts and through in kind contribution of Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council, Kari Aboriginal Resources, Liverpool Hospital Arts for Helath Volunteers, Liverpool Womens Health Centre, Inc, South Western Sydney Institute of TATE.

Quiet Dreaming Place Opening Smoking Ceremony

Artists commissioned for the Quiet Dreaming Place:

Adam Lamont, Dean Grant, Marjorie De Leper, Susan Grant. Installation of works by Malcolm Cooke and volunteers of Liverpool Hospital Arts for Health Program. Mosaics produced by the volunteers working with Thao La.

Project was coordinated by Marily Cintra from 1999 to 2004 and by Delphine Leslie from 2004 to 2005

The Liverpool Health Service Cultural & Artistic Enrichment Program has now ended December 2007

Bankstown Hospital..

Auburn Hospital Redevelopment Arts Program

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The centre piece of the new Auburn Hospital is the art work of the main centre stair case.

The Universal Journey

Artist: Bronwyn Bancroft

Medium: Digiglass^©

^{This work was produced from a half scale (10 meters long) image painted in acrylic paints on paper by Bronwyn Bancroft.}

Bronwyn Bancroft is a Djanbun Clan member of the Bundjalung Nation (NSW) Bronwyn has participated in over 200 Exhibitions and has consistently provided work for Commission in Education, Health and other areas relating to Humanity, especially for Aboriginal initiatives and government departments. Bancroft was recognized as an Australian Living Treasure and was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia. Bancroft lived in Canberra and did her first degree at the Canberra School of Art. Bancroft is currently studying for her Doctorate at University of Western Sydney.

Title “The Universal Journey” the work reflects the local community support for a friendly environment that values the shared values in its rich cultural diversity.

The Universal Journey was painted in half of the scale: 10 x 0.6 meters and then it was enlarged and produced into Digiglass, for the main stairwell of the new hospital.

The work shows the journey of every human, independent of cultural differences, and its connection to nature. Bancroft reflects about her work for Auburn Hospital with a poem:

“Live to Love

Love to Live

Live and Love

Life is a rich Tapestry

Interwoven as complex as our DNA

Light and Dark

Day and Night”

Each of the 5 levels in the hospital reflect the Universal Journey and connects with the services provided in the level. Level 3, for example is about the Sun and Water. “The water gives Life and the Sun gives warmth”. The work continues to provide a beautiful metaphor for our lives. “The Moon and beginning of Universe gives us night and our days”.

The work finishes on the fifth floor with a show of “starry starry night heaven”.

The work was commissioned and produced by Health and Arts Research Centre Inc who prepared an Arts and Cultural Plan, “Tapestry” for the new hospital. The plan involved over 350 staff, patients, visitors and local residents. The participants felt that the arts in the new hospital should speak about our commonalities and celebrate our diversity.

Marily Cintra 2008

For further information contact Marily Cintra

For further information on Bronwyn Bancroft's art go here

More about Auburn Arts Program....

Bankstown - Lidcombe Hospital

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:26:55 +1100

Arts and Cultural Program

Public art in Bankstown - Lidcombe Hospital

Bankstown Hospital Arts for Health Gallery The program has now ceased from January 2008

For more info contact Marily Cintra

.....Liverpool Hospital John Hunter Hospital.....

Public art projects by Marily Cintra

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Public art projects by MC2

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Some works by Marily Cintra and malcolm Cooke MC²

John Hunter Hospital

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:36:21 +1100

SEASCAPES, MOUNTAINS, FORESTS, SEA SHELL SAND BLUE SKIES

AN ARTS AND CULTURAL PLAN FOR JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL

With the support of a grant from the Australia Council , Identity Environment & Art developed an Arts and Cultural Plan for the John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW Australia.

This was done through intensive consultation with staff, patients, visitors and the local community. Over 500 people were interviewed and the plan recommended the development of an ongoing program within the hospital.

Proposed projects include works involving staff, video collaborations and a series of healing gardens

Royal on the move

Royal Newcastle Centre

The Royal Newcastle Centre was a major development of Hunter New England Health Service. The impact of closing the Royal Newcastle Hospital and moving its services to a new building in the John Hunter/ Rankin Park Campus was met by the local community and staff of the Royal with a sense of loss and grief.

In 2003, Hunter Health Service commissioned Health and Arts Research Centre, Inc. an Arts and Cultural Plan for the new building. It included the development of a cultural program to engage staff of the Royal and local community so that there were opportunities for expressing the issues of closing the Royal.

Planning involved interviews and surveys with 107 people, focus groups, observation of physical traces and environmental behaviour. The planning conveyed a series of in seven recommendations and a proposal for the Royal on the Move Program.

The planning also identified users’ value for the hospital, which became the basis for the development of the Arts and Cultural Plan. Those values were: quality of care and safety, patient centered, respect, an environment that is welcomed to all and team work.

The planning identified values related to the individual participant. They were caring, family, honesty and integrity, respect and empathy. Values people aspired in their community were honesty, respect, a sense of community, caring and safety.

HARC worked initially with archivist Paul Wilson, University of Newcastle and Hunter Health, to create a series of heritage displays. The Heritage Walks include:

Royal Newcastle Hospital Architecture

Health Management and Innovation in Newcastle

Volunteerism, the Royal and John Hunter Hospitals

HARC catalogued, reframed and relocated all valuable works existing in the Royal Newcastle Hospital to the new Royal Newcastle Centre.

HARC facilitated the commissioning of artworks by

Anna Scobbie,    Textile, installation, Child play areas, main waiting rooms, levels 2 ,3

Anne Graham,    Framing the Memories, Installation, Main Foyer

Eden Burke,    Banners and sculptures, Rehabilitation courtyard,

Judith Thomas-Meulman, Sculture, Awabakal Welcome, forecourt

Kate Bestwick    Pavement inserts, Awabakal Welcome, forecourt

Lara Mason,    Mixed media, seats Meditation Room

Malcolm Cooke,    Glass images inside lifts and lift lobbies, Levels 1, 2 and 3

Marily Cintra    Sculpture, forecourt

Miranda Lawry,    Framing the Memories, Photographs, installation, Main Foyer

Shane Frost    Pavement inserts, Awabakal Welcome, forecourt

Funding was a great problem however through partnerships and sponsorships HARC managed to more than triple the funds available for the project.

HARC was also able to acquire a baby grand piano for the enjoyment of visitors, clients and staff of the Royal Newcastle Centre.

“Broken Heart”, Moving the Royal Project, Newcastle, Australia March 2006

For further information on this project contact Marily Cintra

......Back to Bankstown

Public art projects by Malcolm Cooke

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