Homes to spruce up the walls of the New Royal Liverpool Hospital A&E Department
The newly built Royal Liverpool University Hospital’s new artwork will be unveiled at a ceremony, on the 16th of February.
The art is the inside of homes from across Merseyside, to bring the hospital closer to the community.
Artist, Charlotte Mann says, “I wanted to spotlight and celebrate the way people look after each other, and themselves, at home.
“Homes are not just for the running of a hospital, but for the functioning of a whole society.
“Like a house, the drawings have many things to look at — It’s useful for people who have to wait four hours or so.
“The wall drawing is nearly nine metres long, taking up the length of the wall of the A&E waiting room –the other walls will have smaller drawings.”
The installation has been a painstakingly, time-consuming process — the drawings had to be photographed and pieced together in photo shop, before they were printed.
Mrs Mann hopes that people will enjoy taking the time to find out what they think about it, as they look at it.
She says, “It’s a great responsibility to make work for a context where you almost have a captive audience.
“I want the wall to be there in a way that its not shouting a question at you, but that you should find yourself looking at it, and being moved to thought and feeling — It will be able to sustain a conversation with you.”
