Hospital Rooms x Hauser & Wirth: Digital Art School
22 August, 2024 – 10th September, 2024
Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
London
W1S 2ET
This summer, the Hospital Rooms Digital Art School will manifest in a physical space at Hauser & Wirth London from 22 August – 10 September 2024. The exhibition will recreate the Digital Art School format live in the gallery space, delivering live in-house creative sessions hosted by artists such as Abbas Zahedi, Shepherd Manyika and Eileen Cooper RA as well as beautifully shot art activities projected in cinematic style onto the walls of the gallery hosted by artists and designers including Giles Deacon, Sutapa Biswas and Sarah Dwyer.
© Hospital Rooms. Photo: Jennifer Moyes
Visitors will be invited to spend time making artwork of their own in the space, using free art materials provided in the gallery or participating through handheld digital devices and in print. The exhibition offers a chance for visitors to experience the various gatherings that are taking place in mental health hospitals across England and to contribute to the charity’s investigations and experimentations into new models and methods of humanising mental health spaces.
Artworks created by visitors during the sessions will be installed on the walls throughout the exhibition. The floor of the gallery space will be covered with an adaptation of Nengi Omuku’s artwork created for Hellesdon Hospital in Norfolk, depicting a clear blue sky that people will be able to walk, sit and create on. Hot air balloons featured in the Hellesdon artwork will be transformed into bean bags for the public to sit on and draw, and will later be installed in Hellesdon Hospital.
The partnership has helped to fund transformational creative projects to bring contemporary art and architecture to Springfield Hospital, Tooting; Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich; Sandwell Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the Midlands, and to launch the Digital Art School in 750 mental health sites across the country.
Hospital Rooms x Hauser & Wirth: Digital Art School opens on the 22nd of August, 2024 until the 10th of September, 2024 at Hauser & Wirth
©2024 Hospital Rooms, Hauser & Wirth
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