A residency for Artlink Edinburgh & The Lothians at St Johns Hospital in Livingston, working with patients and staff to generate work that would in some way alter and enliven specific spaces around the hospital. These included, The Mcmillan Daycare Centre, The Gym in Ward 17, The Psychology Department Meeting Room, The St Johns Gallery, The Canteen and The Hospital Corridors. These images depict workshops, events, working drawings and finished work created over a 16 month period. Thank you to all the patients and staff at St Johns who contributed to the projects through participating in workshops, sharing ideas, attending events and helping produce work or just stopping to chat and say hello. Thank you also to Kirsty Macdonald and all the staff at Artlink. Photography by Johns Barnes and artists own.
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- Psychology Department. Window screen to create a more private atmosphere in the group meeting room. Photography: John Barnes
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- Psychology Department. Window screen to create a more private atmosphere in the group meeting room. Photography: John Barnes
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- Psychology Department. Window screen to create a more private atmosphere in the group meeting room. Photography: John Barnes
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- Psychology Department. Window screen to create a more private atmosphere in the group meeting room. Photography: John Barnes
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- Psychology Department. Tea party for staff to christen the bespoke tea service for the group meeting room. Photography: John Barnes
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- Psychology Department. Tea party for staff to christen the bespoke tea service for the group meeting room. Photography: John Barnes
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- Psychology Department. Tea service for the group meeting room. Patterns designed in response to discussions with staff. Photography: John Barnes
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- Psychology Department. Tea service for the group meeting room. Patterns designed in response to discussions with staff. Photography: John Barnes
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- Ward 17. Motifs painted with help from patients in ward 17 on the walls of the gym. Photography: Artists Own
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- Ward 17. Motifs painted onto the gym walls in ward 17, with help from patients. Photography: John Barnes
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- St Johns Gallery. Fiona & Donna with a motif designed for the hospital domestic team. Design developed in discussion with Fiona. Photography: Artists Own
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- Hospital Corridors. Motifs as stickers on the backs of the porter’s wheelchairs and trolleys. Photography: Artists Own
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- Staff Canteen. Cappuccino featuring Nicole’s ‘I’m a Diva’ motif. Photography: Artists Own
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- Staff Canteen. Catering staff using a cappuccino stencils featuring personal motifs designed by and for patients & staff around the hospital. Photography: Artists Own
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- Staff Canteen. Canteen crockery featuring personal motifs designed by and for patients & staff around the hospital. Photography: John Barnes
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- Ward 17. Personal Motifs designed with and for patients and staff from Ward 17.
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- McMillan Daycare Centre. Spinning Peerie Screen. Laser cut paper, acrylic, steel & aluminum. Fittings by Ronnie Watt. Photography: John Barnes.
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- McMillan Daycare Centre. Spinning Peerie Screen. Laser cut paper, acrylic, steel & aluminum. Fittings by Ronnie Watt. Photography: John Barnes.
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- McMillan Daycare Centre. Spinning Peerie Screen. Laser cut paper, acrylic, steel & aluminum. Fittings by Ronnie Watt. Photography: John Barnes.
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Working drawing for a window screen to create a private space for patients and staff.
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Collage for the exhibition ‘What is Wallace Beery Doing’ held in the St Johns Gallery in April 2011
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Collage for the exhibition ‘What is Wallace Beery Doing’ held in the St Johns Gallery in April 2011
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Janet joining in on workshops. Photography: Artists Own
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Lynda joining in on workshops. Photography: Artists Own
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Surface pattern design for George, inspired by his experiences working as a butcher.
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- Mcmillan Datcare Centre. Surface pattern made from drawings by Janet of a whip and peerie she played with as a child.
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Surface pattern design created from a drawing by Janet describing childhood memories chalking patterns onto the top of a peerie spinning top.
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Surface pattern design inspired by Rab’s award winning garden, featuring drawings of begonias by Lynda.
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Surface pattern design inspired by Richard’s memories of working as a book binder. Pattern based on original drawings by Richard.
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- Mcmillan Daycare Centre. Surface pattern designed for Wully recalling his days working in the local shale mines.
