Tanoa Sasraku's permanent commission on Haytor Ward at Torbay Hospital has now been installed
Hospital Rooms has partnered with Devon Partnership NHS Trust to create artworks for three inpatient mental health wards at Torbay Hospital.
This latest Hospital Rooms project will see the creation of fifteen artworks, five per ward. Starting in November, each artist will host a workshop during which staff, service users and care providers will explore a theme or artistic medium, collectively generating ideas for the final artwork. Five of these workshops will take place in the wider community in collaboration with the Devon Recovery Learning Community. Once all the artworks have been installed, and COVID-19 guidance permitting, a public exhibition of the artworks will be opened. This will help to promote the project and demonstrate how art and creativity can be made accessible to people even at the most difficult of times.
This project will see close collaboration with both the inpatient wards and Devon Recovery Learning Community to ensure wide participation from service user representatives across the region. In addition, Healthwatch Torbay and Torbay Culture are advising on the local context, opportunities and challenges, while Artizan Gallery in Torquay are helping us to reach and discover creative practitioners from within the region who will deliver and benefit from the initiative, as part of the project’s commitment to work with local talent from Torbay and South Devon. The project has also been generously supported by the Devon Partnership Trust Charity, fashion retailer Anthropologie and construction firm Kier.
Tanoa Sasraku’s commission can be found in the Haytor Ward alongside artists: Samuel Bassett, Jacqui Hallum, Huhtamaki Wab, and Simon Ripley.
