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Imagined Landscape, Close Studies (2021)

Titian Ward, Ilford
Wall print 4.5 metres X 2.8 metres and small frames ink drawing 297mm X 210mm


I was one of 6 artists who were invited by Hospital Rooms to make a new work for Titian Ward, a psychiatric intensive care unit for men. The other artists were - Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Steve Macleod, Cherelle Sappleton, Richard Mark Rawlins and Mark Titchner.
 
I wanted to make work for the telephone room. I was drawn to this space as it's the means that service users have to contact their loved ones and family members during their stay. I wanted to create a sense of space, somewhere beyond the building. For 'Imagined Landscape, Close Studies', I made a 4 and half metre print of a small watercolour I'd painted. I installed the print on one side of the room, on the opposite wall, as a counterpoint above the telephone, I framed a group of pen and ink details that I drew of imaginary faces and hands. In the watercolour landscape we see an open vista, a space to move to or from, and a sense of closeness and possible connection - parts of a bigger picture. There seemed to be a push and pull between the two sides of proximity and distance and of memory and imagination.
 
Hospital Rooms is an arts and mental health charity that commission artwork for NHS mental health inpatient units across the UK. Along with other artists, who have worked with Hospital Rooms, aspects of the works by the 6 artist's working at Titian Ward were shown in the group show called 'ART + PSYCHIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE' Cork Street, London, Autumn 2021.
 








 
Installation documentation 'Imagined Landscape, Close Studies' (2021)
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