The Windows artwork on the new MRI Scanner extension building at Cossham Hospital followed an extensive community consultation. The NHS Fresh Arts team and the artist Rodney Harris consulted both online and in person with a wide range of people including patients and visitors, staff including doctors, nurses and other support staff, local residents, local media and key professionals including the architect and manufacturers.
In analysing the responses to questions and conversations during the consultation a key underlying theme emerged. This is the notion of a distraction or escapism, patients and carers know full well they are going to a hospital and often have nerves and anxiety, while staff, doctors, nurses, and support staff together with local people also know that they are in a hospital. This idea of escapism suggests that the role of the artwork is to provide respite, artwork that is distracting, taking people’s attention away from their situation.
Studies have shown that artworks that enhance the visual built environment of healthcare settings can improve patient care and wellbeing.
It is also important for the long-term success of the artwork that it integrates seamlessly within the new modern architecture and looks as if it could actually be there.

Nesting Tree sculpture is hand carved from local clays made into brick. 

Eight thousand years ago Northumberland was connected to Northern Europe with a forest that flooded when the English Channel was created due to changes in climate. Nesting Tree sculpture is a memorial to this forest and is designed to provide habitat for birds by the integration of cavities suitable for tree sparrows and other small birds. Located next to Hauxley Nature Reserve in Amble where the endangered Tree Sparrow flourishes, the nesting cavities were designed in consultation with the RSPB. 

Commissioned by Boots Ltd for their building in Okehampton, Devon. They are part restoration and part reimagining of the reliefs that once were on the building and were accidentally removed.
This provided the opportunity to decolonise the original Victorian reliefs of the fruits of empire and replace them with fruits and vegetables that grow locally. They are in seasonal order, from spring to winter, left to right. There are three reliefs in total.

Based on Bird Architecture, the bird houses are designed for small birds like Tree Sparrows. 

Toaster is part of the permanent collection of ceramics from Latvian International Ceramics Biennale

Latvian International Ceramic Symposium

Bird house situated on the trunk of an ancient 300 year old English Oak.

Upholstered Chesterfield Brick Sofa was commissioned by Bristol City Council for the garden at St Werburghs Nursery School in 1994. Since then Sofas have been commissioned by:

Thanet District Council in Ramsgate Three Piece Suite.

Somerset County Council for Bridgwater Marina.

Sainsbury's in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Housing development in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital at Wonford, Exeter.

The glazed brick relief "Washing Machines" was commissioned by South Gloucestershire Council for the site of the former public laundry - the Shield Laundry - which is now the Shield retail centre in Filton, Bristol. The success of the sculpture led to the commissioning of "Washing Line", completed in 2013.

Washing Line

Commissioned by Sainsbury's for the public transport entrance at their supermarket in Bicester, there are two sofas and a seventy five metre long hand carved panel of wallpaper.

Pitchfork was a centrepiece of the Hogback Hills exhibition at the Sidney Nolan Trust at The Rodd, Presteigne, Herefordshire. 18th July - 28th September 2024. 

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