Creative experiences crafted for patient wellbeing
We are developing two new hospital arts trolleys, to support the facilitation of creative participatory activities for patients, staff and visitors across Newcastle Hospitals.
The Art Trolley and The Music Trolley will help to create joyful and stimulating experiences on our wards, at the bedside, acting as a distraction from treatment and pain, while encouraging creativity and promoting patient wellbeing.
Artist in Residence, Pui Lee; and Musician in Residence, Calum Howard; have been co-developing the trolleys in collaboration with trust staff and patients, providing creative opportunities for users to input into the design and function, and ensuring patient need and accessibility is embedded in the design process.
Pui and Calum will go onto deliver a regular programme of creative engagement activities utilising the trolleys across Newcastle Hospitals.
Newcastle Hospital Arts Trolleys are fabricated by Form Eighty Studios.
Meet the Artists
Calum Howard is a composer, producer, musical facilitator and performer. Specialising in songwriting facilitation with music technology, his approach is an adaptable fusion of group creation, rhythmic exercises, software and sampling, beat-making, games, music production skills and singing.
Calum regularly works in theatre as a composer, music director and actor-musician. As a self-taught piano and keyboard player, his career in live music has seen him support Placebo at Wembley Arena (with Minor Victories), perform on Jools Holland (with Beth Jeans Houghton), and appear on BBC 6 Music, Virgin Radio & XFM. Calum also mixed and produced Me Lost Me’s album The Good Noise, Ceitidh Mac’s I Reach for the Pen EP, and the debut EP from Watersmeet.
Learn morePui Lee is a British-born Hakka Chinese artist and arts educator, working throughout the UK.
Pui’s artistic practice is wide-ranging, and she works using an interdisciplinary approach across both traditional and contemporary 2D and 3D artforms including Drawing, Printmaking, Installation, Sculpture, Parade Art and East Asian Arts & Craft.
Pui regularly works with galleries, museums, libraries, care homes, schools, festivals and community venues. Recent commissions have included projects with Manchester Museums, Gem Arts, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Lowry, Gateshead Library and Washington Arts Centre.
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