Tanoa Sasraku’s Haytor Ward Commission for Hospital Rooms
Hospital Rooms partnered with Devon Partnership NHS Trust to create artworks for three inpatient mental health wards at Torbay Hospital. Tanoa Sasraku’s commission can be found in the Haytor Ward and photos of the instillation are above. This project saw close collaboration with both the inpatient wards and Devon Recovery Learning Community to ensure wide participation from service user representatives across the region.
Central to the creation of the new artworks was a series of workshops hosted by the artists, during which staff, patients, care providers and members of the wider community with lived experience of mental health difficulties explored a theme or an artistic medium, collectively generating ideas for the final artwork.